PC Keeps crashing and I dont know why

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Hello All,
I hope someone can point me in the right direction with this issue please?
Originally the issue started because my 10 year old 4 in 1 Printer died. So I replaced it with another HP product as I really liked the old one. But there was some old drivers left behind and Windows Update kept trying to install the missing drivers for a machine that no longer existed. Therefore it would fail and eventually during the night my PC would reboot after a crash. So eventually I got tired of this and decided to reformat and reinstall Windows 10. 64bit.
This is not something I do very often these days and it was a struggle to remember how best to prepare for it. In the end I disconnected all the other drives and propertly installed it on my M2 drive as before. But I have a new issue now. But with similar outcomes.
The machine is crashing and restarting. At least once a day now.
I managed to be here when one BSOD instance happened and saw the error code and the "violation" and when I googled it, it basically described it as a driver issue.
Now I have installed loads of drivers since the install. I can't work out which piece of software is causing the issue though. I took a screen shot of my desktop before reinstalling Windows so I could remind myself what Apps I had installed.
Is there any way of trying to figure out which piece of software is the offending one?
Specs
12600K - on stock speeds. Never clocked.
MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4
32GB Ram - Corsair again not clocked
MSI RTX 3070
Creative Soundblaster Internal Card
Samsung 980 2TB
Corsair 850W

So decent components. Just something's not quite right, and I need a bit of help working out what it is please?

Many thanks in advance. Please ask any questions if I have forgotten anything
 
software errors are a pain in the bum to diagnose over mid-air as these can literally be due to anything

it's going to be a process of elimination, and in general best done one at a time starting from the bare-bones

ie:
cpu/mobo/ram/ssd first
install windows and make sure they're stable
then add gpu and install drivers - ensure stability
then add your sound card and install drivers - ensure stability
then one peripheral at a time

goes without saying that the drivers should be sourced from the manufacturer website and the latest ones

other things to note is whether you need to enable CSM for the sound card to function properly
 
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Raumarik said:
Have you taken note of when it happens and then look up the event viewer for clues?

That's generally my starting point.
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I did have a look at the Event Viewer, but to be honest I'm not really sure what I am looking at, or looking for. Its been so long since I had to do any of this and I'm struggling to remember what to do.
Any pointers with regards to the Event Viewer?
 
just critical events or information happening before the crash. I'm sort of going through this maybe, it's an Nvidia crash for me (games exits) but it looks like the actual problem is a DIMM slot on my motherboard that was causing it when populated with working RAM.

It can give you an idea though, like tamzzy has said it's a process of elimination but the event log can give you a starting point especially if you know when it happened
 
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