I built my computer a few years ago and recently ive been having a lot of problems with my computer crashing/ freezing. I have 16 gigs of ram, water-cooled 980, and a water-cooled 6600k. Over the past few months ive been getting crashes in games and it says "Application (some game) has been blocked from accessing graphics". Yesterday I thought it would help to clean up my computer and do a fresh install of windows. I used asus secure erase to wipe both of my ssds (samsung pro 128gn and 500gb). I updated windows, my drivers, installed steam, discord, asus gpu tweak, and icue. I was looking forward to playing bl2 but soon realized my computer still has a crashing issue. Today ive crashed at least 50 times in a 5 hour gaming session. It started off with my primary monitor going black, followed by my second then they would both reappear and sometimes I would be able to get bl2 to reopen but sometimes i needed to force close it or even restart my pc. After happening about 8 times my computer started to block applications from accessing graphics hardware. It started off slowly with bl2 being blocked about twice an hour. In the last hour the problem has progressed immensely! I crashed about 30 times in the last hour and every time my whole computer freezes and doesn't allow me to do anything but i can still hear the game audio and discord(I can still talk to my friends sometimes but everything would be frozen). My computer has went from blocking just the game to everything on my pc it seems like. Ive spent around 30 hours in the last 3 months trying to fix the issue with no luck. Any help is greatly appreciated.
So this happens every time i boot up my computer and this is at idle. It's been doing this forever and I'm not sure why even after looking at many other forums. Its causing major slowdown I feel in games. My disk and memory are the most worrying. The first one is idle and the second it under load. Can anyone explain why this happens? I should also add that my PC is prebuilt so maybe the BIOS is broken or something. I'm not sure.
GPU: R9 380
CPU: fx-8320
