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Random freezing and restarting

I built this PC about 9 months ago and everything went smoothly and it worked perfectly up until about a month ago. Every once in a while the computer will start to slow down and eventually freeze completely forcing me to restart it with the button on the case. This only happens when I have multiple programs open like chrome, discord, and Spotify at the same time but interestingly enough it will never happen when I have a game open and running. This led me to believe that it was a chrome issue so I switched to Firefox for a bit and the problem persisted. The best way I can describe this problem is that first, certain things won't load like YouTube thumbnails for example and then if I try to minimize or exit out of the tab it either won't work at all or it will close and then I can open it back up and eventually everything completely freezes except for the mouse and keyboard inputs. On Windows event viewer it shows that a critical error occurs with the source being kernel-power and the event id being 41. This also doesn't just happen with web browsers it sometimes happens with just discord or Spotify. I have 32 gbs of RAM as well which should be more than enough to run multiple tabs as well. I recently updated my bios as well as my drivers. I am completely lost on what to do and any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

PC Specs

CPU Ryzen 7 7800XD3

MB Asus ROG STRIX B650E-I GAMING WIFI

RAM G skill Trident Z5 Neo (AMD Expo) DDR5 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 5600MT/s CL30-36-36-89 1.25V 

SSD Samsung 980 pro 2TB m.2 PCIe NVMe gen 4

PSU Cooler Master 850W SFX gold

GPU asus tuf 4070 oc

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Discord and Spotify run on web browsers even though they have their own app. I would look at clearing my caches and temporary files on my computer. I would also uninstall and re-install browsers, extensions, Spotify and discord. Depending on how many tasks you are running when it freezes, it could possibly (bit of a long shot) be a ram issue. You could always try to reseat it and see if that helps. 

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Can you send a screenshot of windows event viewer when this happens and what are the temps of your CPU. Do the debug lights/codes show anything out of the ordinary when the computer crashes or freezes? Have you updated BIOS, drivers and all that stuff? 

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Try a Clean Boot. If this works, you can keep it this way, or you can add one or more Startup or Services items at a time until the mouse starts stuttering, then you will know what the culprit is. 

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