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Frequent freezes and various bsods
Hi, my pc randomly freezes and/or give different bsods. When I used the dm log collector the pc froze two times, had to force restart. The third time luckily managed to finish the data extraction.
I have just finished a memtest test, did 8 passes, no errors, so I guess the RAM is fine.
I also have recently updated the drivers, but the problems are still here.
For context: these problems actually began last summer, with an increasing number of random bsods. At the beginning I tried to keep note of them, but every time it was a different one, and was rather difficult to find leads. Then the pc began freezing constantly, to the point it would froze after a few seconds, even during startup or in safe-mode.
Not exactly sure about what to do, I opened it up, cleaned it thoroughly, and it worked! The pc no longer had problems.
However six months later they started again. This time the freezes were kinda different, there were loud crackling noises from the speakers, even when no audio was playing at the moment, and sometimes the video on the screen would be severely distorted.
I did the cleaning again, and it worked for a couple of months. I want to point out it wasn't incredibly dirty, actually it seemed mostly clean, but I cleaned it anyway. I even reapplied the thermal paste.
But now the problems came back again, I guess cleaning it's just a temporary solution, I want to fix it for good this time. So I came asking for your help guys.
Thanks for helping me.
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