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*****SOLVED***** PC freezes and buzzes using Virtual DJ 8

NJDevilsx26

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Dec 1, 2015
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Didn't really know which category to post in so I figured this would be the best. I made and account just to make this thread since these forums have helped me solve countless problems before. About a two weeks ago my PC had a major issue where every time I would start it I'd get sent to a screen telling me that my hard drive was bad and needed to be replaced, the only way I could get past the screen is going into the BIOS and loading Windows through there. I managed to fix that problem by loading to a last known good, I immediately went out and bought a second hard drive to back everything up. After that episode everything was running fine but about once a day my computer would freeze and emit a horrible buzzing noise from the speakers. I ran ChkDsk and it found some bad sectors and repaired them, I then used Advanced System Care, IObit Malware Fighter, AVG, Smart Defrag, and IObit Uninstaller to thoroughly clean my PC. All of that seemed to fix my freezing and buzzing problem. I read that it could be caused by overheating but I checked my temperatures and they were all fine, I also saw that it could be caused by my graphics driver failing so I updated my drivers to the latest. All of my drivers are now up to date and my PC is free of any viruses and malware, my only problem is that whenever I try and run Virtual DJ 8 my computer freezes and loops the last millisecond of sound over and over in my headphones. I can run anything else fine, I can play all my games, watch YouTube videos, surf the internet and it works fine. I just got done playing Fallout 4 for 6 hours and my computer had no problems at all, but any time I try to use Virtual DJ it freezes. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling 3 times, I've tried deleting and redownloading my songs thinking that maybe they were in bad sectors. I'm really at my wits end here, I've checked the event log and there isn't anything that give me information about the crashes, the only error I see that I think could be causing this is error 7 which indicates a bad block. I've run ChkDsk multiple times and disk management says both my disks are healthy. I get a bunch of error 7s (about 10-15) in quick succession every few hours but nothing is in the bad sectors.I really don't know what could be causing the issue and it's extremely frustrating, sorry for the wall of text but I don't know what else to do.
Thanks in advance.

System Specs:
MoBo: ASUS X-99 Deluxe
Processor: Intel i7 5930k 3.5GHz
16gb DDR4 RAM
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760
Two 2TB WD Black 7200rpm Hard Drives
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Z
 
Problem was caused by corrupt windows updates, after my computer had that big crash and I restored to last known good the updates that had to be installed again had gotten corrupted and were causing the issue. I fixed it by deleting & reinstalling all the updates on my computer that were installed after the big crash, no issues since then computer now runs fine, hope this can help someone else.