Steam crashes a few minutes after opening

[Yee_Man]

So I've had this problem for a few days not. It started yesterday, I was using Windows 7. When I opened Steam, it crashed after a few seconds. I switched over to Windows 10 (I'm dual booting 7 and 10) and it did ChkDsk on its own, and then fixed itself. But now its starting to do it again, crashing after a few minutes of having Steam open.

I've tried all the "fixes" on the internet when searching "Steam crashes after a few minutes upon startup".

I've also tried turning off the read-only property of the Steam folder.

This is the event viewer crash log.

Faulting application name: Steam.exe, version: 4.38.89.32, time stamp: 0x5a973c3e
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.16299.248, time stamp: 0x3a21d961
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0006143e
Faulting process id: 0xb38
Faulting application start time: 0x01d3b281a909ff21
Faulting application path: D:\Games\Steam\Steam.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 5c638dd0-1648-40bf-a9ac-cabe245418e7
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

 

[photonboy]

1) first, if there's a secondary drive (with another Steam folder) unhook it. Leave ONLY the OS drive.

2) if that still fails (Steam on two different drives fails) then perhaps it's a hardware issue like system memory. Thus I'd run MEMTEST86 for a full pass. www.memtest86.com

 

[Yee_Man]

I fixed it by reinstalling steam and moving my userdata and appdata