Computer freezes, sometimes bluescreens when running specific applications and just idling
Lately I have been having issues with my computer freezing or bluescreening when I run specific applications. The two main programs that I see this happen 99% of the time is uPlay and watching a YouTube video. The computer crashes whenever I attempt to download, update a game inside the uPlay application. Other than that, if i just have the application idling, the computer is completely fine. For YouTube, similar thing, on the homepage it is fine. After watching a video for a couple of minutes, the whole computer freezes and I am forced to press the reset button.
The only workaround I have found so far is if I go into safemode I can do these sort of updates and youtube doesn't crash at all. I get the feeling it is some sort of driver issue but according to device manager, there doesn't seem to be any problems. So far the problem seems to only be isolated two incidents.
Things that I have tried:
Uninstalled adobe flash and disabled hardware acceleration
disabled all startup applications from msconfig
Ran computer on only 1 stick at a time as well switched the slot positions
Memtest
Prime 95 with Furmark to test if it might be a load issue with the psu or temp issue with either the cpu/gpu
Uninstalled and wiped previous drivers from computer before installing brand new ones and older versions
Scanned computer usual anti virus as well a few anti-malware applications (adwcleaner, combofix, jrt and rkill)
Reset bios settings to default
Attempted to up the cpu and ram voltage.
Anybody have any clues? Greatly appreciated!
I assume my computer specs might be required so just in case:
Intel i53570k
Asus P8Z77-VLK
Patriot Black mamba 8Gb (2x4Gb) @1.5V
Asus AMD 7870
Samsung 850 Evo for O.S
WD Black for Storage
The only workaround I have found so far is if I go into safemode I can do these sort of updates and youtube doesn't crash at all. I get the feeling it is some sort of driver issue but according to device manager, there doesn't seem to be any problems. So far the problem seems to only be isolated two incidents.
Things that I have tried:
Uninstalled adobe flash and disabled hardware acceleration
disabled all startup applications from msconfig
Ran computer on only 1 stick at a time as well switched the slot positions
Memtest
Prime 95 with Furmark to test if it might be a load issue with the psu or temp issue with either the cpu/gpu
Uninstalled and wiped previous drivers from computer before installing brand new ones and older versions
Scanned computer usual anti virus as well a few anti-malware applications (adwcleaner, combofix, jrt and rkill)
Reset bios settings to default
Attempted to up the cpu and ram voltage.
Anybody have any clues? Greatly appreciated!
I assume my computer specs might be required so just in case:
Intel i53570k
Asus P8Z77-VLK
Patriot Black mamba 8Gb (2x4Gb) @1.5V
Asus AMD 7870
Samsung 850 Evo for O.S
WD Black for Storage
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