I had this problem once when overclocking an AMD phenon. The short story is (I don't know the whole cause) the on-board crypto units stopped being random.
Which wasn't a real problem for 'some' day-to-day use. This was in the mid to later 00's, so https wasn't quiet everywhere yet.
The problem manifested slowly. When ever I'd connect to HTTPS, my browser would crash. One sound card would phone home for an update, and my computer would crash. Randomly certain games would crash when ever anti-cheat software attempted to run.
It was just odd, and took a few days of hunting to find out what was actually going wrong.
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I had this problem once when overclocking an AMD phenon. The short story is (I don't know the whole cause) the on-board crypto units stopped being random.
Which wasn't a real problem for 'some' day-to-day use. This was in the mid to later 00's, so https wasn't quiet everywhere yet.
The problem manifested slowly. When ever I'd connect to HTTPS, my browser would crash. One sound card would phone home for an update, and my computer would crash. Randomly certain games would crash when ever anti-cheat software attempted to run.
It was just odd, and took a few days of hunting to find out what was actually going wrong.