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Following this post I was able to reproduce the fix down to the letter. (Big thank you to the Mod: Rogue Leader at Tom's Hardware for saving that thread from deletion!) I disabled hyperthreading in UEFI, opened task manager, went to the details tab, and changed the Processor affinity by right clicking and selecting 'Set Affinity' on each chrome process. Every was was fine except when 'CPU 3' was selected which I guess is the fourth core. I went to the UEFI and kept hyper threading disabled, and limited the CPU to only use 3 cores (assuming cores 1-3 or CPU 0, CPU 1, CPU 2 in set affinity). I restarted and I could now use firefox (where it crashed on launch before), edge and chrome were not giving the status_acess_violation error, and there were no graphical artifacts in videos and thumbnails. Must be my i5-11600k has already gone bad since install late October of 2021. Time to contact Intel for warranty...

Okay, so I swapped MOBO's. I ordered a ASUS TUF Gaming Z590-Plus to replace my GIGABYTE Z590 AORUS ELITE AX. The problem is still persisting. I feel like I'm losing my marbles. I really don't want to order a cpu just to test if I'm having hardware issues. It seems highly unlikely that it's the CPU. See Edit Below Is something up with things that are based on the Chromium codebase but only affecting a limited amount of users? I can only find a few cases online over the past year that seem to fit with the issues I'm having. Well, I'm off to swap MOBOS again and get this new ASUS board ready to ship back to Amazon. EDIT: Going to follow this user's steps to see if it is a CPU problem; Case: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/cursed-computer-chromium-status_access_violation-and-more.3698937/

Updated to Windows 11 with no change

Lowered VRAM clocks in MSI after burner with no change. Ran MEM86 and the Windows Memory Diagnostic with 0 errors showing up for my RAM. I jumped the pins on my MOBO to clear the CMOS. Nothing. I swapped the RTX 3080TI with my GTX 1080 and I am still having the same exact issues (artifacts and Chrome based browers crashing with status_access_violation as the issue). I still cannot open Firefox without an immediate crash dialog popping up. I found a reddit thread that seems to have the exact symptoms I am experiencing.

UPDATE 02/07/22: Opened a case Jan 31st with intel. They accepted my case and transferred me to warranty department on Feb 4th. They are mailing an overnight replacement which should arrive tomorrow (I paid $25 for "cross shipping" option). SOLUTION: Following this post I was able to reproduce the fix down to the letter. (Big thank you to the Mod: Rogue Leader at Tom's Hardware for saving that thread from deletion!) I disabled hyperthreading in UEFI, opened task manager, went to the details tab, and changed the Processor affinity by right clicking and selecting 'Set Affinity' on each chrome process. Every was was fine except when 'CPU 3' was selected which I guess is the fourth core. I went to the UEFI and kept hyper threading disabled, and limited the CPU to only use 3 cores (assuming cores 1-3 or CPU 0, CPU 1, CPU 2 in set affinity). I restarted and I could now use firefox (where it crashed on launch before), edge and chrome were not giving the status_acess_violation error, and there were no graphical artifacts in videos and thumbnails. Must be my i5-11600k has already gone bad since install late October of 2021. Time to contact Intel for warranty... Original Post: OS - Windows 10 Pro Intel i5-11600k Gigabyte RTX 3080Ti GIGABYTE Z590 AORUS ELITE AX EVGA SUPERNOVA 850G+ G.SKILL RIPJAW V series 32GB 2x16GB DDR4 3200 Home Build I installed the folding@home (distributed computing for research) and had it running overnight. The next morning (01/23/22) when I opened chrome things were a bit slow. Videos and images had odd artifacts. Then chrome tabs would crash to various 'aw snap' messages; "err_ssl_protocol_error", "status_access_violation", "crashpad_notconnectedtohandler", and a couple others. I am thinking about selling my rig soon and decided I'd just wipe everything. I have a 2TB PCIe NVMe and used the windows factory reset. I chose "Remove Everything" and used the "Cloud Download". To my disappointment when I opened Edge browser after the reset it too was having the same issue (as well as chrome). I pulled the 2TB NVMe out and opened a brand new 120GB ssd. I loaded the windows media creation tool onto a USB thumb drive and installed Windows 10 Pro onto the SSD. The same issue with the browser tabs closing to "status_access_violation" persisted on this new install of Win 10 on the ssd. I tried Opera and it too has the issues. I tried Firefox and the browser can't even launch. It just crashes immediately after attempting to run. When loading the graphic drivers onto the fresh install the Nvidia installer would state "Nvidia installer cannot continue. Required files are missing". I manually installed the drivers by directing device manager to the folder. I have run short tests and there are no artifacts in the test windows and the temp are at 68c. I updated the Bios on my Z590 from version F4 to F7. I have made sure all Windows updates are installed. I have made sure all browsers are up to date. I cannot for the life of me find any relevant info after trolling the web. Any help is appreciated. EDIT: 1/25/22 Lowered VRAM clocks in MSI after burner with no change. Ran MEM86 and the Windows Memory Diagnostic with 0 errors showing up for my RAM. I jumped the pins on my MOBO to clear the CMOS. Nothing. I swapped the RTX 3080TI with my GTX 1080 and I am still having the same exact issues EDIT: 1/29/22 Updated to Win 11 No changes EDIT: 1/31/22 Okay, so I swapped MOBO's. I ordered a ASUS TUF Gaming Z590-Plus to replace my GIGABYTE Z590 AORUS ELITE AX. The problem is still persisting.

My Rig doesn't have a name.... Intel i7-5820k Nvidia GeForce GTX TITAN X G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4-2400 32GB Score: 11

Use this: http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/Core-Temp-setup.exe

Do you know what your idle temps are? What's your ambient/room temperature?

Cross the TITAN out (as we're not talking about a TITAN X or Z) as the 970 beats it (although only by about 10%). 960 vs 970? Duh. I'd go with the 970... =D (Unless you think you'd use the extra 2GB of vram and you'd considering overclocking your card)

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Which OS are you running?

I'm not the most qualified to answer this but in my experience you can do a factory reset. Usually the manufacturer will create a restore point when it is new/clean that servers as a "reset" of sorts... What is the laptop make and model?

After a bit of googling it looks to be a (modified) Stagg MIS-1000BK It's a Hungarian company that makes them... Found an English site: http://www.staggmusic.com/en/product_detail/mis-1000bkh.html?backp=1