DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION Crash Code

[Guest Agha Waleed Hasan]

As the title says, my laptop has frequently been crashing recently. Some context: I have a Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 which I bought in 2022. In its initial days it used to hang a lot but somehow fixed itself after a while. No issues for over an year. But recently I found out my laptop had a virus after a Windows Defender scan. I looked up how to get rid of the virus and the method everyone had recommended was to boot into safe mode and delete the particular file causing the virus that Defender had pointed out along with clearing tmp directory. So I did that, and then rebooted back into normal mode

 

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