PC Stability Problems

[Bomdur]

It started with Chrome and Opera randomly throwing errors like "The page has crashed unexpectedly" or "STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION". At first, I didn’t think much of it, but then my PC started restarting by itself, and sometimes I'd get a Blue Screen (couldn't catch the error code because it disappeared too fast).

I tried formatting my PC, but it restarts by itself before I can even do that.

The weirdest part? If I open any game (Even if it's on trhe main menu), none of these issues happen. No random restarts, no website crashes, no blue screens—everything works perfectly.

I already tried removing one RAM stick at a time, but it didn’t make any difference. (Just in case it was a RAM problem)

Specs:

• CPU: i9 14900K

• RAM: 2x16GB T-Force

• GPU: 3080Ti

• Motherboard: ROG STRIX Z790-E GAMING WIFI (BIOS up to date - 2801)

• PSU: MSI 850W

• Temps are fine

• Windows 11

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[Cinlow]

Have you downloaded anything from the internet? If so, you've probably got a trojan horse program running. This happened to me with my laptop and I was facing similar issues.

[RedWulf]

Sounds very virus, boot to safemode if you cant run a check as is

[Cinlow]

It could also be a Windows 11 issue. Although it was about 2 years ago, Windows 11 would randomly restart or crash for people. If you check that it isn't a virus issue, maybe update drivers or check your power parameters

[Bomdur]

Hi, thanks for the reply. I tried scanning my PC, but nothing was detected.

The only thing I remember downloading before these issues started was League of Legends, but I’ve already uninstalled it.

[Vicarian]

Out of curiosity, what drive do you have Windows installed on?  You didn't list storage on your specs.

[Bomdur]

8 minutes ago, Vicarian said:

Out of curiosity, what drive do you have Windows installed on?  You didn't list storage on your specs.

On an SSD 1TB Kingston A400

[Vicarian]

Could try the usual maintenance tasks:

sfc /scannow
dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
chkdsk c: /f

in a command prompt with elevated privileges and rule out quickly fixed issues with your install.  Replace C: in the third line with whatever drive letter was assigned to your Windows install volume.  SFC scans for corrupted files and attempts to automatically repair them.  DISM looks for files that need to repaired with the OS itself that SFC can't repair, and chkdsk looks for bad sectors on your disk and attempts to repair them.

[Bomdur]

6 hours ago, Vicarian said:

Could try the usual maintenance tasks:

sfc /scannow
dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
chkdsk c: /f

in a command prompt with elevated privileges and rule out quickly fixed issues with your install.  Replace C: in the third line with whatever drive letter was assigned to your Windows install volume.  SFC scans for corrupted files and attempts to automatically repair them.  DISM looks for files that need to repaired with the OS itself that SFC can't repair, and chkdsk looks for bad sectors on your disk and attempts to repair them.

dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth Throw me some error but they were fixed. No problem with the others. Problem persist though