IE8 & Mozilla freeze my whole PC while browsing.

Sotorious

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This is going to be a very detailed description and i apologize ahead of time for its length.

Since 12/12/09 I've had my first freeze (i had to go back and track everything) I recently had a memory problem which caused me to upgrade my mobo and my ram and come to find out it was just my ram that was the problem... So i got new motherboard on 12/5/09 then i recived my new ram on 12/9/09, then i got my first freeze while browsing 12/12/09 @ first i thought it was my usb ports dieing just because when it would happen my mouse and keyboard lights would go off. So I thought it was a 1 time thing weeks keep passing by and it would happen from time to time. Then one day i found out it was my whole pc freezing as i glanced at the time and it was 10 mins behind from my regular time, as i left it on to scope around the pc, i then unplugged both mouse and keyboard and put my external in those ports just to make sure it wasnt ports my external hard drives powered up. Then I thought the problem was just on IE i uninstalled adobe (which i think adobe has a big part to do why my system is freezing while browsing) and left it only on firefox my pc didnt freeze for 8 days.. from 12/26/09 to 1/4/10 then i installed flash again on IE cause i wanted to see steams specials they had going on at the time, so later on in the day my pc frooze, then i got it to freeze again by trying to get it to freeze on purpose.

I then uninstalled adobe again (using adobe's uninstaller)and then left it only on firefox... then firefox froze but in a different way. IE usally freezes from when i switch from 1 tab to the next. Mozilla froze when i was loading some pics on a forum So then i thought maybe it was because i was using the beta drivers of my gfx card or that i just had steam running in the background. So i installed the WHQL's of nvidia and left it at that (this was last night) so far i havent seen any crashes, but then again it can go a week without a crash) Also another note I have never crashed while in games, my Event Viewer tell's me nothing but that the pc turned off with out being properly shut down. So I wanna give it 1 last shot before i reformat seeing maybe if you guys could help me. I would hate to reformat just because of a browser..

I have came up with a list of what was installed after i put in the new mobo including ram, i was thinking maybe cause my ram is xmp mode??? then i told my self can't be since i never froze while in a game.

I took a screen shot of everything that was installed after 12/5/09 since that is when i got my mobo, i also got a mouse on 12/17/09 but the freezing was happening before i got this new mouse. One thing i did find in event viewer that has been popping up alot is

"The Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource contention. Scenario : The Desktop Window Manager responsiveness has degraded." - but i narrowed that down to being my 2nd monitor being added which was done on 12/17/09, thought it was drivers at first that is what made me go back to the WHQL's

Everything is up to date, from bios to chipset to GFX card to sound drivers.

Specs:
Intel i7 920
Asus P6T Deluxe v2 ( the other mobo I had before was just an Asus p6t, thats why i never did a clean install of 7 again)
Corsair Dominators 3x2gb TR3X6G1600C8D
Evga GTX 260 216 Core
Corsiar PSU 750w
Caviar Black 1tb(windows), Caviar Green 1TB, WD MyBook 1tb External, WD MyBook 500gb External
Saitek II Keyboard
Logitech G500 Mouse
Dual LG 22" monitors L226WTQ
On Board Audio
Windows 7 Professional 64Bit

Something I forgot to mention was i did find a malware which was a hijack ran malware bytes to find it went over to the guys at pc help forum and had them double check my system they said they saw nothing. I am also wondering maybe if CCleaner screwed anything up when i ran the registry cleanup. I please ask for help and thank you ahead of time.

I been having major issues with this pc, thats what made me go threw a new mobo and ram i was battling with the ram for about a month and thats another long story that i don't want to get into.



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Next time the system freezes up, check the Event Viewer and look under System and Application. See if you get any red marks. Sometimes things begin to fail ahead of time then freeze the system up.
 
I was doing that today trying to notice anything that appeared before hand. and it frooze ( i had browser open in the background wasnt really clicking) Is there a specific spot i should be looking at under event viewer maybe somewhere deep in there?
 
If you reformatted and it's still happening then it's likely a hardware issue.

Download Memtest86 and boot to that and let that run and see if it pops up any errors. Let it run overnight or for 8 hours ish.

If you don't find errors there, load up Orthos and let that run for around 8 hours and see if it fails.

If that doesn't fail, visit this site and download it. Open up several new windows and let that run overnight to tax your GPU.
 
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as far as memtest ran it for 11 hours no errors, i ran prime for 8 no crashes or errors all though one night it restarted out of no where, and i think thats caused i mess with the timings, fixed everything ran again for 8 hours no errors.


I did the clean reformat froze, uninstalled adobe completley off of my pc, froze.

Just now i disabled XMP mode off of my TR3X6G1600C8D waiting either for a freeze or maybe all goes well, only reason why i dont think its that is cause ive never ever froze while gaming.

but if it freezes with xmp mode off, im going to try those 2 programs you suggested ill keep you guys posted.
 
Well if your memory is bad it's going to likely screw things up even if your not gaming.
 
my memeory is not bad according to memtest, and according to me NEVER crashing in games
 
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