Error codes

0x00000133

DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION

What it means

A driver took far too long to answer, so Windows stopped waiting.

Common causes

• Old SSD firmware or the SATA AHCI driver
• Outdated chipset drivers
• Faulty peripherals

How to fix it

1. Update your SSD firmware with the maker's tool (Samsung Magician, Crucial Storage Executive and so on).
2. Update the graphics, chipset and network drivers from the maker's site (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel or your board vendor), not from a driver-updater tool.
3. Unplug USB devices you do not need and test again.
4. Open the crash dump in WhoCrashed or BlueScreenView: it usually names the driver file that caused it (for example nvlddmkm.sys is the NVIDIA driver).