Apps crashing with STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION, blue screens from ntoskrnl.exe

[Microsoft Windows]

This has been happening on and off for the past week now, constant intermittent blue screens, apps crashing, browser tabs crashing, random reboots, failures all over the place.The blue screen errors seem almost random, and often occurred under these categories:SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLEDPAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREADRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUALSYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTIONSTATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATIONThe blue screens will happen under load, when idle, seemingly at any given time, and I've yet to find something that reliably repeats them.The analysis of the minidump files points to ntoskrnl.exe as b

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