Repeated 0x0000000A (IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL) BSOD when monitors enter standby
Hi guys, I've recently been trying to track down a repeated 0x0000000A (IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL) BSOD which has been happening for the last 3 weeks or so. It's rare, so its hard to test, but it's happened roughly every 1-4 days or so under (almost) the exact same circumstances every time, when my monitors enter standby. My monitors go black, and then almost immediately start restarting back up after they're off. Additionally, amongst the 7 times this has happened so far, one of them was slightly different, it happened when I opened a game fullscreen on my second monitor. I've done basically everything to try and fix this other than update the bios which is about 9 months old and completely reinstall windows, but I've got nothing.
Using latest windows, latest nvidia drivers, latest amd chipset drivers. passed memory test, clean reinstalled nvidia drivers multiple times, tried different driver versions, got nothing. It has never happened during actual load, other than the 1 off time opening a game if you count that. Of course, my monitors over this period are entering standby countless times more than the times its happening, so I'm struggling to track it down.
From one of the minidumps:
Bugcheck: 0x0000000A
Parameters:
0xffffa3e71b632868
0x000000000000000f
0x0000000000000000
0xfffff803bb5c02c2
SYMBOL_NAME: nt!_guard_retpoline_indirect_cfg_rax+22
MODULE_NAME: nt
IMAGE_NAME: ntkrnlmp.exe
IMAGE_VERSION: 10.0.26100.8972
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: AV_nt!_guard_retpoline_indirect_cfg_rax
PROCESS_NAME: dwm.exe
IP_IN_PAGED_CODE: nt!_guard_retpoline_indirect_cfg_rax+22
Instruction: mov r11,qword ptr [r11+r10*8]
STACK_TEXT:
nt!KeBugCheckEx
nt!KiBugCheckDispatch+0x69
nt!KiPageFault+0x468
nt!_guard_retpoline_indirect_cfg_rax+0x22
nt!HalpPerfInterrupt+0x5c
nt!KiCallInterruptServiceRoutine+0x5b0
nt!KiInterruptSubDispatchNoLockNoEtw+0x4e
nt!KiInterruptDispatchNoLockNoEtw+0x3c
0x00007ffd1a760ed4
Posted Aug 12, 2026, 10:53 AM UTC