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Occasional random BSOD from various programs, frequent app crashes
Hi all,
I built my own machine about two years ago, and everything ran smoothly until recently. I added 8GB of extra ram back in May -- the only hardware update I've made.
Starting in August, I started to get frequent crashes (maybe 10-20 times/day) of my most used applications: Firefox, MS Outlook, and Netbeans. I also get the occasional BSOD, a few times each month.
There were a large number of Windows updates and Office updates that were installed in the middle of August, but I can't say for sure that my problems started with any one of them.
I tried updating the BIOS today to the latest one available, but the most recent BSOD occurred after that.
Can you please help??
edit: the majority of BSODs are caused by ntoskrnl.exe, but not all.