Constant Browser Crashes. 8.1

Compton_effect

Compton_effect

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I have a strange one on my home PC.
It's quite a old model, think I bought it in '10.
I've been adding new drives and memory to it over the years. Along the way a lightning strike blew the onward network adapter, and it looks like the motherboard took some damage. If the graphics have to show a black background, it shows red dots in it.
I'm in no hurry to replace it, it's a glorified NAS/Plex/torrent server.

A few months ago the primary drive crashed, so it was replaced with a Seagate Hybrid and the OS was reloaded.
Ran fine until I loaded Chrome. A few weeks later the browser became very sluggish. Heck, all media became sluggish. It battled to play something in media player. But Plex ran fine, so it was not a major issue. Said goodbye to Chrome, loaded Opera. Still had the same issue.
Something was killing the machine on the graphics side. Even IE gave errors.

I read up online, ran some mallware scanners, cleaned the registry with ccleaner. Uninstalled some legacy graphics and audio drivers.
Nothing worked, until I Uninstalled Opera and loaded Firefox.

The freezing and browser crashes are gone. I don't get it?
 
Compton_effect said:
I have a strange one on my home PC.
It's quite a old model, think I bought it in '10.
I've been adding new drives and memory to it over the years. Along the way a lightning strike blew the onward network adapter, and it looks like the motherboard took some damage. If the graphics have to show a black background, it shows red dots in it.
I'm in no hurry to replace it, it's a glorified NAS/Plex/torrent server.

A few months ago the primary drive crashed, so it was replaced with a Seagate Hybrid and the OS was reloaded.
Ran fine until I loaded Chrome. A few weeks later the browser became very sluggish. Heck, all media became sluggish. It battled to play something in media player. But Plex ran fine, so it was not a major issue. Said goodbye to Chrome, loaded Opera. Still had the same issue.
Something was killing the machine on the graphics side. Even IE gave errors.

I read up online, ran some mallware scanners, cleaned the registry with ccleaner. Uninstalled some legacy graphics and audio drivers.
Nothing worked, until I Uninstalled Opera and loaded Firefox.

The freezing and browser crashes are gone. I don't get it?
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For some reason I started experiencing the same with Chrome on Windows 8.1 on three of my PCs. A client of mine has the same issue on 7 PCs at their work. But, not only Chrome, for some reason Microsoft Office products are also crashing continuously.

Still trying to find out what is causing the sudden problems with Chrome and Office on Windows 8.1
 
8.1 is full of kark that just doen't work well. A friend of mine convinced me to try out 8.1, needless to say, he is my friend no more. :D
 
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