Steam Ruins My Computer

[Jonas]

I don't know if it's steam, Windows 8, or my computer, but every time steam has an update my computer freaks, and I have to manually restart it. It's the only option that works to fix it, and it's pretty annoying since steam has frequent updates. What happens is, even if my computer is asleep, online, or in steam games, my computer will just turn into a blue blank screen, that kind of "fancy windows 8 light blue" if you know what I'm talking about. It's not the "blue screen of death" either, because there's no error messages. And it's not some kind of virus. Ever since I joined steam this has been happening. The weird thing is though, when I first started noticing this, it only happened when I was playing steam games. My game would freeze, and I would have to force restart. Not that big of a deal though, considering it only happened in game... but that was a year ago when I first joined steam. Now it happens ANYTIME steam has an update. How would I know steam is causing this, though? Well before, it only happened when I played steam games, which is the first piece of evidence. The second piece is that every time, and I mean EVERYTIME it happens, the first thing to pop is... The Steam Updater. DUN DUUN DUUUUUUN

No seriously this is annoying. Someone pls fix. Here are my computer specs if you really need them:

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3330 CPU @ 3.00GHz

Video Card Intel(R) HD Graphics

Memory 8.1 GB

Operating System Microsoft Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit

[Ranko]

How do you know it's not a virus/malware, or bad hardware? Because steam shouldn't be causing any sort of issue like that on it's own.

[schnitzeljaeger]

It's more than likely a PC issue.

The fancy blue screen - does it look like this?
http://i1-win.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Blue-Screen_1.png

[Jonas]

Początkowo opublikowane przez schnitzeljaeger:

It's more than likely a PC issue.

The fancy blue screen - does it look like this?
http://i1-win.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Blue-Screen_1.png

Yes, it looks exactly like that- except without the text. I've never seen it happen with that text, or any kind of text on it for that matter.

[Rodrigo]

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[Satoru]

Any time windows 8 does a BSOD its not the applciations. You've got something much deeper wrong with yoru system for that kind fo thing to trigger in Win8

[Jonas]

It happened... AGAIN. Did steam just get an update? Because yeah, I just blanked out again. I just think it's reaaaaalllly suspicious that steam ALWAYS updates after this happens. Also I just want to message this error message always pops up too after one of those things happens.

RunDLL
There was a problem starting:
C:/Users/"MyUserName"/AppData/Local/Conduit/BackgroundContainer/BackgroundContainer.dll.

The specified module could not be found.

Also, I don't click on any ads, download any malware or anything suspicious or something that sounds even slightly dumb without proof. Plus, to back it up, I have Norton, so even with my standards if something got through Norton would get rid of it and alert me. I really think it might have something to do with my PC though.

[Evolvei]

Conduit is malware. Your antivirus or malware program probably removed some of the files and left the registry entry that wants to start the dll file that was removed.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/protect_scanner-protect_scanning/run-dll-error-messagebackground-containerdll/49612202-667e-4a71-8e9a-d02161d8bc19

[Fysh]

If Your Computer Is Out Of Date ( Old ) You Should Look Into A New Computer! And For That I Suggest You Get A Custom Made Once! ( ALOT CHEAPER! )

[schnitzeljaeger]

The image I posted IS the classic BSOD - only made a bit nicer to appeal to the broad masses ;)

So, check your PC with antivirus (best is offline via a linux boot cd -> eg "Avira Rescue System") and antimalware (eg the one from Malwarebytes).

[Seven7]

http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-conduit-redirect-virus.html

[Arut]

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[Bad 💀 Motha]

Most likely heat related, driver related or u trying to play games that do not get along with your Intel Onboard GPU.

Try using GameAssistant[www.iobit.com] to monitor your CPU/GPU temps in-game. U have to enable the option once u launch the app for first time.

If the temps are ok, but the issue continues, please update to latest drivers, namely the ones for your Intel Chipset and Intel HD GPU. Linked below.

Intel Chipset 8/9 series
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=20775&lang=eng&ProdId=816

Intel HD 2500 series GPU Driver
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=24329&lang=eng&ProdId=3711



Steam Updater popping up is normal whenever Steam crashes; which if ur system is hard-locking and/or rebooting, Steam is technically being forced closed, cause it doesn't get exited properly. So upon next launch of Steam, it simply does a check on the core client files before logging in and all that.



I'd open Command Prompt as an Admin user and run the following as well, to check for Local Disk and OS File related issues.

CHKDSK /F (verifies your HDD data; checks for a marks off bad sectors if present)

SFC /SCANNOW (verifies your OS files; let's u know if OS files are corrupted)