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Crashes during sound/video but very random and weird crash, no BSOD
Hi folks
I have an odd issue that I have come to the end of my knowledge about and I am stuck to be honest.
My fairly new (6 months) PC has a very odd way of crashing on me at completely random times although it does seem to happen more regularly when playing sound or video content (VLC, Spotify, Streaming Movies or TV etc) and it also seems to happen more often if I have bittorrent running in the background.
What basically happens is that the screen will freeze for a moment but the sound will continue to play, then any audio coming from the PC will slow right down (like dropping the pitch really low on a turntable) until it just sounds like electronic noises. The sound will continue to play until I reboot the PC but the screen will not change. Sometime I can still move the mouse, sometime I can't. The only way out of it is to hard reboot the computer.
I have checked all my drivers on numerous occasions, I have had it all apart and checked the hardware connections, virus checked and done a full clean reinstall of win 7 but still the same problem...
Any one out there had anything similar????
Thanks