Sporadic BSODs are getting more frequent. Don't see any pattern in the logs. You guys have any ideas?

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Normally I'm pretty good with tech stuff, but I'm completely drawing a blank here. Some friends on a different tech support forum suggested I see if you guys can figure it out.
// Goretsky says hi

The BSODs happen pretty much randomly. While gaming, while browsing online, today it even crashed on the login screen after a fresh startup.
I checked for driver updates and got nothing from Windows Update or their optional updates.
Checked out Nirsoft BlueScreenView, and each crash log is completely different.

Summary of BlueScreenView:
TimestampCaused by...Bugcheck string
1/9 1:15 PM(on login screen)ntoskrnl.exe(blank.) 0x00000139
1/9 12:40 PMwin32kbase.sysReference_by_Pointer
1/8 9:00 PMdxgkrnl.sysUnexpected_Kernel_Mode_Trap
1/8 6:20 PMntoskrnl.exeIQRL_not_less_or_equal
1/5 10:00 PMwin32kfull.sysSystem_service_exception


- Issue: Sporadic BSODs, no observable pattern.
- System Manufacturer: Homebuilt PC (2020)
- Win11 Home x64. Stable builds. (Used Insiders before. Wiped drive and reinstalled fresh 4 months ago. Issue has worsened in the last month.)

- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (6-core processor, 3.4 GHz, x64)
- RAM: 2x 8GB G.Skill, F4-3200C16D-8GVKB. (Slots 1,3)
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super
- Motherboard: ASRock B450M Pro4
- PSU...? I'll edit this later.

- Driver verifier? Haven't messed with it. Defaults to disabled, right?
- Security software: Usually just Windows Security. Running ClamWin and AdwCleaner today just to be sure. (Kinda just good at avoiding malware ever since I was a kid.)
- No proxy or VPN or whatever.
- No disk image tools.
- Overclocking? no.

Speccy snapshot: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/Jo0yzYWnQLKyclsfWQxOurf
 

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Update: since then I've realized that the boot logo and BIOS options aren't drawing. However Windows still works.
Very confused.
 
My first reaction on looking through your dumps is a RAM problem. There is nothing consistent about these BSODs other than they could all be RAM related. I think the first thing you should do is a proper test of your RAM...
  1. Download Memtest86 (free), use the imageUSB.exe tool extracted from the download to make a bootable USB drive containing Memtest86 (1GB is plenty big enough). Do this on a different PC if you can, because you can't fully trust yours at the moment.
  2. Then boot that USB drive on your PC, Memtest86 will start running as soon as it boots.
  3. If no errors have been found after the four iterations of the 13 different tests that the free version does, then restart Memtest86, and do another four iterations.
This will find about 95% of RAM issues. Even a single error is a failure.
 
I'm gonna have to figure out the other issue before I can try memtest... I know how to get into UEFI and change the boot order, but for some reason it no longer displays anything until Windows loads.

I also tried the memory diagnostic tool built into Windows, which also doesn't display anything, but it did complete. Unfortunately I have no idea where the results are supposed to be.
I ran it from my laptop (functioning just fine) for comparison, and saw the text saying that the results should be displayed upon login, but neither device got the results. Where should they be stored?
 
Nevermind, things got worse. Started to take it apart to see if the problem was one of the RAM cards being worn out, and... even though I put the cards back where they were, and even if I remove all the boot drives but one, it doesn't even seem to POST.
I think I'm going to need to get the hardware tested at this point.
 

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