Windows 10: Windows Updates Causing Crash

I have a Dell XPS that I bought in 2017. It has been awesome and I haven't had any big issues until now. About 2 months ago there were some updates I don't know what they were. I install updates automatically, and soon after they were installed Windows 10 would not boot up. I would get the blue error screen and it turned into a cycle where it wouldn't boot up and I'd end up at the recovery options screen. Over the past month I have been assisted by Dell technicians in resetting the pc and reinstalling Windows from a usb drive. I've done this twice now and each time the pc works fine until updates are installed. I don't know which update is causing the problem or how to find out. I also don't know what updates are necessary. If anyone has had/is having a similar experience and knows how to fix the problem I would greatly appreciate some advice.



Also, seemingly unrelated, the camera on my laptop doesn't work. It hasn't been working for a long time now, predating the update issue. I know it is not a hardware issue because when I have reset and reinstalled Windows during the update issue and then open the camera app, for a brief second it works and then brings up an error about not being able to find the camera. I've done a little investigating on the internet and went into device manager. The "camera" option is not there, although once when I was in device manager it kept appearing and disappearing. I would appreciate help with this too.


Thanks to everyone in advance!

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all games crash!

I suggest you run rthdribl > http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/archives/rthdribl_1_2.zip
Increase the window size step by step and watch your vga temps permanently.
What happens?
If it crashes, run at stock speeds as suggested before and retry.

P.S.: When your system locks, does the display signal turn off after a time?
Stuttering sound or no sound at all when freezing?
What X1800XT model do you own exactly?

 

all games crash!

ive watch my temps and both the cpu and gpu are within normal ranges. when it freezes it simply freezes the image and stops the sound. i must reboot to get back to windows.

 

GPU-Z 0.7.5 causing crashes on load up

Any chance you could narrow it down to which running application causes GPU-Z to crash? Ideally steps to reproduce for me here.