Oracle VM is crashing my PC

[Segundoh]

For some reason, Oracle VM VirtualBox is crashing my PC about two or three times a week. It seems very inconsistent, so I'm not sure what's causing it. It usually works just fine for hours on end, and then it randomly crashes. In the most recent crash, my PC crashed as soon as I opened VirtualBox. I am using the Debian 12 Bookworm OS on my VM for class although I'm using Windows 10 Education as my actual OS. I tried to reduce my number of processors to 5 and then 4 instead of 6, but that did not help. I tried to adjust my base memory as well, but that also didn't work. I'm not sure what else I can do to fix this.

PC Specifications:
Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING B650-PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12A chromax.black 60.09 CFM CPU Cooler
GPU: Sapphire Pulse 6800 XT
SSD 1: Crucial P5 Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
SSD 2: Crucial P3 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
RAM: (4x16) G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2x16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory
Power Supply: Super Flower Leadex III Gold 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
Windows: Windows 10 Education
AMD Driver Version: 24.7.1

 

[JWNoctis]

Any specific error messages in the Windows logs? Does it still happen with a fresh VM instance? Does it only happen with Virtualbox?

Failing all else, you can always try booting Debian from LiveUSB, and maybe then make a dual-boot install for your class needs.

 

[Segundoh]

Any specific error messages in the Windows logs? Does it still happen with a fresh VM instance? Does it only happen with Virtualbox?

Failing all else, you can always try booting Debian from LiveUSB, and maybe then make a dual-boot install for your class needs.

Thank you! I saw some critical errors in Windows Event Viewer around the times my PC crashed which I'll put at the end. By a fresh VM instance, do you mean I should try setting up a completely new VM to see if it still happens? I've experienced crashes with VirtualBox and OpenRGB. I'm not sure why OpenRGB is crashing, but it only happens when I run as administrator. It gives me a message that says it can't find motherboard LEDs when I don't open it as an admin, but it just freezes up my PC when I do open it as an admin. I don't think my motherboard has LEDs other than the error lights, so I was thinking that might be why it's freezing, but I'm not sure. Sleep mode always gives me an AMD driver timeout error, though that's probably unrelated.

Anyway , here's the critical error I saw. It seems they're all the same as far as I could tell. They all fall under "Event 41, Kernel-Power." Here are the details:

General: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.

Details: System -

Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power [ Guid] {331c3b3a-2005-44c2-ac5e-77220c37d6b4}
EventID 41 Version 8 Level 1 Task 63 Opcode 0 Keywords 0x8000400000000002 - TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2024-09-03T23:52:24.2576682Z
EventRecordID 144777 Correlation - Execution
[ ProcessID] 4 [ ThreadID] 8
Channel System ComputerDESKTOP-59C1JVC


- Security
[ UserID]
S-1-5-18

BugcheckCode 0 BugcheckParameter1 0x0 BugcheckParameter2 0x0 BugcheckParameter3 0x0 BugcheckParameter4 0x0 SleepInProgress 0 PowerButtonTimestamp 0 BootAppStatus 0 Checkpoint 0 ConnectedStandbyInProgress false SystemSleepTransitionsToOn 0 CsEntryScenarioInstanceId 0 BugcheckInfoFromEFI false CheckpointStatus 0 CsEntryScenarioInstanceIdV2 0 LongPowerButtonPressDetected
false

If I can't fix it, I'll definitely go with LiveUSB then. Thank you for the help!

 

[JWNoctis]

That looked like something that pops up on reboot without a clean shutdown, not the crash itself.

System instability with no clear cause is...complicated. Others would know more.

For now, make sure to back up your courseworks and anything else that mattered.

 

[ShiBDiB]

Share the .dmp in your "Windows\Minidump" folder. If their isn't one, make sure error dumping is turned on (Advanced system properties -> startup and recovery).

https://imgur.com/Z3o32Qj

 

[Segundoh]

That looked like something that pops up on reboot without a clean shutdown, not the crash itself.

System instability with no clear cause is...complicated. Others would know more.

For now, make sure to back up your courseworks and anything else that mattered.

I see, that makes sense. I'll look for more Event Viewer events then to see if there's anything about the actual crash. Thanks!

Share the .dmp in your "Windows\Minidump" folder. If their isn't one, make sure error dumping is turned on (Advanced system properties -> startup and recovery).

https://imgur.com/Z3o32Qj

I don't see any files in that folder for some reason. I have "Write an event to the system log" and "Automatically restart" enabled, but the first option in "Write debugging information" just say says "Small memory dump (256 KB)." Is that why I don't have any files? I changed that to "Automatic memory dump." I also disabled "Overwrite any existing file" and "Disable automatic deletion of memory dumps when disk space is low." I'll report back whenever I crash again and actually get some .dmp files. Thanks!

Share the .dmp in your "Windows\Minidump" folder. If their isn't one, make sure error dumping is turned on (Advanced system properties -> startup and recovery).

https://imgur.com/Z3o32Qj

Are .dmp files only generated when a BSOD happens, or are they generated when your PC just gets a black screen and restarts? I opened OpenRGB as an admin after which my PC got a black screen. It hung on the RAM light too. However, I didn't get any .dmp files even though I made sure error dumping is turned on.