Win10 quality &amp;amp; feature updates caused frequent BSODs &amp;amp; freezes

Windows 10 Build and Version number before and after feature updates?

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I said too soon: it BSODed again 2 hrs ago, booted up and after I shut it down, it cant boot up anymore

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post the bsod code plse

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I can't boot up anymore, so can't go in to post the
crash dump & so far, in the BSOD screen, did not
see any BSOD code tho there's QR codes: would
this help?

>another question as its hardware are due for retirement long long ago and it is not sure
>whether you can still use it reliability after putting in money and time for just making it work.
A used x270 here already cost about 4 times that of an x240. The seller agrees to check
his stock & swap for me at US$103 (it's an x240 with i7 processor).

Odd that the BIOS Lenovo diagnostics run for the
motherboard, CPU, RAM (full run), SSD & 1 other
component did not show any error.

A question: if I swap my SSD (which has a couple
of licensed software) over from my broken x240
(i7) to an x260 (an i5), would it boot up & the
softewares still work?

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Thanks very much; I don't have a SATA cable;
I'm arranging to swap to another laptop
& hopefully it boots & I can get the minidumps
(if it's enabled).

As the vendor is selling refurbished laptops, is
there any rigorous tools to run verify the hardware
& its components are good? A previous expert
told me Lenovo's built-in diagnostics is not that
thorough/accurate (including RAM diags).

I had a past company laptop x270 which BSODed
daily & Lenovo diags (quick & full) showed no
error but after my PC support colleague swapped
the RAM chips, BSODs stopped.

So is are there free diagnostics tools that I can
run to verify all hardware components as the
refurbished laptop comes with 1 week warranty.

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Attached the dmp files from c:\windows\minidump:
Minidump11_14Jan.zip

Brought to the PC dealer this morning & there it still cant
boot: he inserted his SSD (that's loaded with Win10)
& could boot up my x240. He then plug my SSD into
an external SATA & was able to view contents in my
SSD. Then he ran AOMEI & another diagnostics tool
on my 'suspect' SSD but both tools did not detect any
faults. The built-in Lenovo diagnostics run also
showed no error). Then he put back my 'suspect' SSD
(it's a branded SANdisk SSD) into my own x240 & it
boots up.

The technician reckons my Win10 is 'corrupt' likely due
to me powering off (I admit I've done this a few times as
the screen was blank for a while & I can't wait more than
5 secs & pressed the hard powerOff button & when power
up, will get to see the message that "Update in progress
... do not interrupt".

To be on safe side, I bought from him another SSD that
is loaded with Win10. I brought back home the x240
with the 'suspect' SSD: it booted up fine twice (during
this time, I copied out the minidump attached) & then it
BSODed 3 times (once it says "pagefault on ntfs", once
it says ' ... \windows\... fails to load' & another time it
says "IRQ ..." (didn't get to snap photos of the screens).

I then managed to boot up this 'suspect SANdisk' SSD
in sort of 'Safe Mode with Networking' (the fonts look
much bigger than usual but Internet & browsing works):
seems stable for last 1 hour.

As last resort, I'll probably copy out my data & load into
the 'spare/standby SSD & reinstall all my apps' (not much
data but I have quite a lot of apps to reinstall) so hoping
I can still stabilize this 'suspect SANdisk' SSD (think it's
not hardware fault but me corrupting OS during updates).

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I've disabled Win10 update permanently on the
'standby spare SSD'. If Nobus can take a look at
the dumps & suggest how I can repair (likely it's
the OS), will save me the hassle of reinstalling
all the apps

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if there are updates available , that is

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The AV malwarebytes has been deinstalled;
left only MS' Bitdefender (but somehow I can't
deinstall it: it's not visible under Add/Remove
Programs).

>try uninstalling old drivers
What's the appropriate ways to uninstall?

So far, on this new SSD, it has not BSODed,
so I'll hold on to the BIOS update (& the MS
Bitdefender that comes with Win10 is there
too in the new SSD) till things break (the
old adage, if it aint broke, dont fix it).

For the 'suspect SANdisk SSD', will need
to figure how to uninstall drivers.

Btw Nobus, which tool did you use to read
/analyse the dumps : for my educational
purpose

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thank you - i never got so much points for a Q ... lol