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I have recently decided to move my web automation scripts from Google Colab where they worked fine, to my own PC. After getting the correct webdriver(for chrome, version 89), I tried launching a python script and after a few minutes, the PC crashed and gave a DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION stop code. If I don't launch my script, it works all fine. I have googled the question but couldn't find a good solution or reason why this happens. My script is below:

from selenium import webdriver
wd = webdriver.Chrome()
wd.get("https://www.labirint.ru")
search_bar = wd.find_element_by_id("search-field")
search_bar.send_keys("978-5-907180-08-6")
search_bar.submit()
results = wd.find_elements_by_class_name("card-column_gutter")
print(results[0].text)

I have downloaded my chromedriver.exe from here: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

HighElfWisard
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  • [`DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION`](https://superuser.com/questions/1132398/what-is-dpc-watchdog?rq=1) is a catch all exception caused by multiple things. It basically means that a process, caused an interrupt request level (IRQL) to happen for a prolonged period of time (longer than 100 ms), it basically was caused by the driver you are attempting to use. – Ramhound Mar 18 '21 at 20:48
  • so the chromedriver.exe file? – HighElfWisard Mar 18 '21 at 20:52
  • It's either the driver or the script, to determine which one, I would debug the script to determine which instruction causes the error. – Ramhound Mar 18 '21 at 21:11
  • The script gives no apparent errors. The pc just crashes @Ramhound – HighElfWisard Mar 18 '21 at 21:20
  • At which instruction exactly? – Ramhound Mar 18 '21 at 21:42
  • I think on the `search_bar = ...` because I ran it up to that point, closed the chrome window that it opened and then ran it again up to `search_bar.sendkeys()` at which point it crashed without showing me any output, even though It usually prints a listening log first thing. @Ramhound – HighElfWisard Mar 19 '21 at 01:19
  • @Ramhound It's the driver. I have no idea why but the geckodriver + firefox combo works perfectly. and without errors. and crashes – HighElfWisard Mar 19 '21 at 21:16

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