In this step, we will be opening your desktop case and making sure that all your cables are tightly plugged into each other.

Although this helps the cooling and accessing of your components, sometimes poorly attached cables can render some components undetectable. When you’re using a desktop PC, your computer is attached through interconnected cables. If you’re using a laptop, you can skip this method and read its conclusion below about what securing your cables does to fix this problem.

If the problem still persists after trying the fix that suited your situation, try to complete all the methods listed below instead. This will help you sort out which methods to try first based on your most recent activities. The following solutions will start with a short introduction about what that method will fix on your computer. Since the violation can come from many sources, your best bet is to first start with the area that was changed most recently. The error was derived from Windows being unable to communicate with its hardware or software components, like your SSD, graphics card, installed programs, and so on.ĭespite there being a lot of methods to fix this problem, the quickest and easiest way to fix this is first to find out if there were any new changes made to your computer. This blue screen issue was most prevalent on the earlier releases of Windows 10, back when it was still a newly released OS. Are you getting a blue screen that shows you “DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION”?Ī DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION is one of the more ambiguous errors your PC can encounter.

Dpc watchdog violation