Weird crashes/lag/BSOS

Stivi said:

Hey guys, some really weird stuff has been happening with my PC lately, and I'll try to describe the problem to the best of my ability. Basically, I installed Windows Live Essentials to use the messenger, and the messenger would completely crash my computer, giving a bsod once. I uninstalled it, and the problems have somewhat gone away. My computer will randomly slow down, when listening to music, the music will lag and go at like 50% and so will the mouse. When I was playing the RIFT beta, it started lagging badly and then my screen turned back and my monitor said no input found or something and it kept going back for a second and then the black monitor again, to the point where I could only restart. When I had MSN installed, my monitor did that once or twice too, and this message would pop up at the bottom right saying nvidia device version 266.xx kernel blah blah has stopped working but has recovered. I'm running the latest drivers, and have updated everything.

Let me know if you need any more info guys, thanks. I have also attached one of the crash dumps and health check thingamajigs

No dmp file attached, please try this method.




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