This is the 4th time i'm refreshing my PC in 2 weeks and its driving me crazy. I got this desktop built for me last year and I ran into a lot of problems last dec(http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3583975/killer-network-manager-update-screwed.html). Eventually I gave up trying to diagnose it and just refreshed it and everything was fine again. Or so I thought.
A couple of weeks ago my PC started slowing down badly. I do quite a bit of photo editing and every adjustment in Lightroom would take a few secs to register. I thought it was just another performance issue on LRs part until my PC crashed and gave me a SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED BSOD. If i remember correctly the driver that was causing it was bckd.sys, which is by Blue Coat K9 web protection. My PC managed to restart itself and I immediately went to install Malwarebytes and avast and ran scans to check if maybe one of the torrents i downloaded had a virus but the scans were clean apart from a bunch of chrome extensions that malwarebytes showed as PUPs. Thought maybe its just a one off crash so I continued using my PC until it crashed again a few mins later. Startup repair didn't work so I refreshed my PC and installed only the programs i really wanted: Lightroom, Photoshop, Steam, Chrome, Avast, Malwarebytes.
Fast forward to today and I've now refreshed my PC 4 times including once 5 mins ago, when it crashed and refused to boot into windows and just kept going to the same BSOD screen after I installed corsair utility engine. Unlike the previous time(check linked thread), though, the only BSOD i've been getting is the SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED BSOD.
My guess is that either:
One of the torrents had a virus which buried itself somewhere back when i didn't have any antivirus installed
OR
My hardware is faulty
I'm currently backing up all my files so I can do a full reset rather than just a refresh. Would appreciate any other suggestions as i'm not looking forward to doing it.
PC specs in case they help:
Intel i7-7700k
Aorus z270x gaming k5
Palit GTX 1070
Gskill tridentZ RGB 16gb
A couple of weeks ago my PC started slowing down badly. I do quite a bit of photo editing and every adjustment in Lightroom would take a few secs to register. I thought it was just another performance issue on LRs part until my PC crashed and gave me a SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED BSOD. If i remember correctly the driver that was causing it was bckd.sys, which is by Blue Coat K9 web protection. My PC managed to restart itself and I immediately went to install Malwarebytes and avast and ran scans to check if maybe one of the torrents i downloaded had a virus but the scans were clean apart from a bunch of chrome extensions that malwarebytes showed as PUPs. Thought maybe its just a one off crash so I continued using my PC until it crashed again a few mins later. Startup repair didn't work so I refreshed my PC and installed only the programs i really wanted: Lightroom, Photoshop, Steam, Chrome, Avast, Malwarebytes.
Fast forward to today and I've now refreshed my PC 4 times including once 5 mins ago, when it crashed and refused to boot into windows and just kept going to the same BSOD screen after I installed corsair utility engine. Unlike the previous time(check linked thread), though, the only BSOD i've been getting is the SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED BSOD.
My guess is that either:
One of the torrents had a virus which buried itself somewhere back when i didn't have any antivirus installed
OR
My hardware is faulty
I'm currently backing up all my files so I can do a full reset rather than just a refresh. Would appreciate any other suggestions as i'm not looking forward to doing it.
PC specs in case they help:
Intel i7-7700k
Aorus z270x gaming k5
Palit GTX 1070
Gskill tridentZ RGB 16gb
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