Hello, I started to have sudden system crashes when I'm running games and some other applications that I've been using just perfectly till two days ago, I'll try to summarize what I did so far:
The most recent change I did in my system was a graphic drivers update so I've been trying to reinstall, clean uninstall and downgrade these but the problem persists.
I've been testing if RAM memory sticks were the problem but changing them neither stopped the system crash.
Scanned the PC with tdsskiller in safe mode but nothing was found except a "potential thread" from one of Adobe functions named Switchboard.exe that is something I had installed since ever.
A week ago I decided to uninstall Avast free antivirus and started running ESET in trial mode which seemed to work well and got me pleased with its functions, and all my habitual activities weren't giving me any problems before I tried to update my video drivers so I have my doubts that the AV might be the problem.
Since I have a dedicated hard drive where I install games I tried running a game from the system hard drive which is the newest one I have but the crash still happen.
I'm still going to run a scan disk and a full virus scan although I highly doubt there might be any problem, although there are some chances that I have a failure in my O.S. or the hard drive itself, but in the meanwhile I'd like to ask what other diagnostic tools you could recommend me to see if there is a hardware failure in my GPU or if there's something stronger than the default drivers installer to see if I can clean the recent installations I mentioned in this post.
Also let me know if this post and its format is correct for its purpose and thanks in advance for any help.
PS: Right when I pressed the "preview" button before posting this my PC crashed again, gladly the post was auto-saved when I returned and tried the preview button again without problems this time. Thanks again.
The most recent change I did in my system was a graphic drivers update so I've been trying to reinstall, clean uninstall and downgrade these but the problem persists.
I've been testing if RAM memory sticks were the problem but changing them neither stopped the system crash.
Scanned the PC with tdsskiller in safe mode but nothing was found except a "potential thread" from one of Adobe functions named Switchboard.exe that is something I had installed since ever.
A week ago I decided to uninstall Avast free antivirus and started running ESET in trial mode which seemed to work well and got me pleased with its functions, and all my habitual activities weren't giving me any problems before I tried to update my video drivers so I have my doubts that the AV might be the problem.
Since I have a dedicated hard drive where I install games I tried running a game from the system hard drive which is the newest one I have but the crash still happen.
I'm still going to run a scan disk and a full virus scan although I highly doubt there might be any problem, although there are some chances that I have a failure in my O.S. or the hard drive itself, but in the meanwhile I'd like to ask what other diagnostic tools you could recommend me to see if there is a hardware failure in my GPU or if there's something stronger than the default drivers installer to see if I can clean the recent installations I mentioned in this post.
Also let me know if this post and its format is correct for its purpose and thanks in advance for any help.
PS: Right when I pressed the "preview" button before posting this my PC crashed again, gladly the post was auto-saved when I returned and tried the preview button again without problems this time. Thanks again.