Computer crashing every 30 minutes to an hour and displaying "reboot and select proper boot device" on restart

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So, here is my problem.

I bought a Gateway FX6860 about a year and a half ago. Everything has been going great, I have had no problems with crashing or lag.

Until about a month or two ago. I was taking a break from work and decided to browse YouTube. That's when my taskbar froze up and I couldn't access the start menu. The next thing I know, all my programs crashed and I ended up with a blue screen. Upon restart, my computer displayed a message "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key". After pressing a key the same message appears again.

I have tried restoring computer to factory to try and wipe any viruses but it's still crashing.

Any help would be appreciated, I'm not the most computer savvy but I'll do my best to understand anyone that would be willing to help.

Thank you guys so much and here are my specs.

P.S. If I missed anything just let me know.

Edit: It seems if I'm in browser Adobe Flash stops working first, then my Google Chrome becomes unresponsive and won't load any web pages.
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 core)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
16 GB RAM

 
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Sounds like a hardware issue... Likely your Hard Drive is faulting

Does it make any weird noises... ie loud mechanical clicking or wirrrrrr Click noises?
(Known as the click or chirp of death)
 
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I haven't heard any sounds out of the ordinary.. However I can keep my ears open for anything different.
 
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Bios battery Could be low or flat hence the select boot device - and when you when into bios all good from that point?

... hmm your other issues of slowly freezing up are pointing to multiple possible issues, Overheating, Running out of ram and/or faulting ram... also can be a hdd errors as I mentioned. or driver issues

Mostly or only crashing while using chrome and Flash crashing first... does it crash any other times

Install a new browser to test ie Firefox. Re-install Flash... Does it still crash with a different browser?

To check if over heating you can try speedfan or temperature monitors
 
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If you get any blue screens write down the C0x000007 crash number or ref your getting as this will help greatly
Dust on Ram chips can and do cause issues - but usually cause automatic restarts and weird crashing

Specific Crashing is Drivers, Virus, Patches, Hdd Error on sectors programs are stored, Bad programming in apps, Configuration issues, overheating, etc

Any further information you can supply will help narrow things down.
 
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