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Crashing/Freezing/BSOD on Fresh Install
I have a custom build PC that i've been using since Feb 2012 and up until a few weeks ago it had been working great. Randomly I started to notice that it would crash and BSOD at random times maybe 2-3 times a week. This would happen overnight or immediately after i was finished watching a movie (streamed to my Apple TV 3 in the living room). I don't do much gaming/HD graphics on my PC. I finally had enough and decided to reimage the original drive (Corsair F60 SSD - 60GB) but it immediatly BSOD once the base Win7 Ent image was loaded. I purchased a new drive (SanDisk Extreme SSD - 120GB), reimaged, was able to load the MB drivers and utilities but failed halfway through the Windows Updates.
For the past week and a half I've done a TON of things to troubleshoot and determine what's wrong but the crashing and BSOD is still very random and inconsistent. I've since reimaged about 5 times, each time installing fewer drivers and applications. I've updated the BIOS to the latest version, reset to default BIOS settings, and removed the battery to clear CMOS, swapped RAM to different sockets, ran a memory test overnight (no errors), removed all extra hard drives, checked the PSU voltage, and temps are normal.
I have been using the PC for the past 30mins or so with no issues but it seems as if i open Youtube to watch a video or tutorial then it will freeze and crash. I simply can't pinpoint the issue