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BSOD before and after reformat, possibly driver related
My computer has been suffering BSODs for the last couple of months. In an attempt to fix the issue, I reformatted my computer. This did not solve the situation. Right after reformatting (and before installing anything but Windows updates), explorer.exe (or some derivative process) would crash anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes repeatedly. I looked at many different posts on this forum, but nothing has helped so far.
Issues:
* BSOD. Typically this happens while playing games when Skype is running.
* No sound in a few games (Minecraft, Company of Heroes, Silent Storm)
* Cannot play songs on any media player (WMP, Winamp, Media Monkey) for more than 30 seconds. Song stops playing with an error message related to some disconnected hardware (Never had this before the reformat)
* Google Chrome crashes seemingly randomly
Fixes/Diagnostics run so far:
* Seatools (Diagnostic for Samsung HDD) all tests Passed
* Memtest86+ all tests Passed
* Prime95 all tests Passed
* HWMonitor all temps (CPU, GPU, HDD) are below 30°C
* Driver Verifier is running right now, it has produced three BSODs in about 2 hours
I appreciate any help you can give me. It looks like there are some very knowledge folks in this forum, and I am in desperate need of solutions.
Thanks,
Sam