Computer blue screening and corrupting programs.

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walkingwalktroug

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Okay... I'm having some hardware issues with my computer and I'm looking for some serious help. I would like some help diagnosing which part is causing my issues and right off the bat I'd like to admit that I never turn my computer off. I keep it on literally 24/7 me restarting it this week was the first time in like a year. Also I'm on a very very tight budget so don't ask me to buy a part and see if it fixes it. Also my graphics card is currently being bottle necked by my processor if that info helps. But I can manage to play most games on low graphics I currently play LoL but the program got corrupted when the blue screen issues started and after reinstalling it, it still won't work. Chrome is very unstable and crashes a lot. It takes multiple restarts and try's to get past a blue screen also. I would just like help diagnosing I will try cheap options at first like replacing my CMOS to see if that does anything. I have a lot of budget parts also. So please just lend some helping advice.
 
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It would help to know more details about your PC such as OS version.
Assuming your running Win10:
Most common BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) issues are memory related. I would startup your PC and hit F8 during the POST screen. This will give you a menu of options to select from. Choose Memory Test and allow it to run the full time. This will give you insight to see if there are any computational issues with your memory. If you have more than one stick of RAM you can always remove all but one RAM stick and cycle them through on DIMM0 until you can replicate the error and you may find that you have corrupt/damaged RAM.

This is where I'd start.
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It would help to know more details about your PC such as OS version.
Assuming your running Win10:
Most common BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) issues are memory related. I would startup your PC and hit F8 during the POST screen. This will give you a menu of options to select from. Choose Memory Test and allow it to run the full time. This will give you insight to see if there are any computational issues with your memory. If you have more than one stick of RAM you can always remove all but one RAM stick and cycle them through on DIMM0 until you can replicate the error and you may find that you have corrupt/damaged RAM.

This is where I'd start.
 
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Tumeden

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If you haven't restarted in about a year this makes me believe that you would never of had time to clean out any dust from your computer either. I recommend shutting it down and opening up your case - make sure everything is dust free. Dust can cause components to overheat, as well as fail and cause BSOD errors. It would be a good place to start.
 
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walkingwalktroug

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Thank you for the advice and I have cleaned it but nothing has seemed to fix. I am going to pick up a new hard drive today and see if it fixes anything. I probably have a virus because I always have hard drive problems but let me know if you think the hard drive isn't causing it.
 
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