Frequent BSODs with nonsensical crash dumps

MrBlue

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Apr 23, 2014
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Ever since i (idiotically) decided to run windows update in January, I've been getting a BSOD with varying frequency with radically different error messages.

I've got a zip file containing every single crash dump from since the issue began, and some even before that. I don't know how to upload it...
The crash year is always listed as 17420, it's referencing drivers for things i don't even have. Watching videos on the internet always causes a crash, just a matter of time. System just locks up without a blue-screen... Sometimes clicking the notifications button on twitter causes a BSOD (3 times so far)

I've been talking with a friend and he's suggesting a factory reset, which i don't want to do.