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BSOD while surfing the web - no gaming or heavy duty usage
Operating system is windows 7 home prem 64 bit. All stock Dell Inspiron 560 loaded and ready (Q8300 @2.5 ghz with 6 MB ram w/basic graphic and sound cards). Only software changes I've done were to load AVG and malware bytes upon delivery in June 2010. Computer drivers and hardware seem to be mostly 2006 vintage. All I do is surf with this computer. I store no files and documents of any size. No gaming. Computer has worked flawlessly for the past year except for an occasional virus or malware hit where the virus scanners weeked them out.
Currently getting a BSOD as often as every hour this past week. This first started happening a month or so ago when opening a thread on a blog to just read it. I thought I picked up a virus or malware and ran my usual stuff but nothing was found. Ran some earlier restore points to no avail. I eventually ended up running memory diagnostics. During the software portion it noted that I had a hardware problem. The software side passed fine. Then I ran the hardware portion and it came out clean. It then ran with no problems for a few weeks when it returned a few days ago worse than ever. It seems that having multiple web pages open tend to give a BSOD. Even running AVG, malware bytes, adware, and SFC /SCANNOW dumped the system.