Steam crashes my computer - Hardware & Software

I recently build a new computer and for the first 5-6 days it was working with no problems at all. Then today I turn it on and everything boots as normal but during the time when all the startup programs run, my computer stopped working completely and shutoff about a minute later. I started in safe mode to see what was wrong and it worked fine in safe mode. Next, I restart my computer normally and end the Steam process as soon as my computer starts. I wait a few minutes, nothing wrong. I start Steam manually and it crashes again but doesn't shut off. Now I am writing this thread as my computer sits frozen. What should I do and what could have caused this? Brief Specs: Core i7 Bloomfield 930 XFX Radeon HD 5850 1GB 6GB (3x2GB) Triple Channel DDR3 RAM Windows 7 I'm thinking I will reinstall Steam and see what happens. If that doesn't work I will use the Recovery program with Windows. Please help. Thanks in advance. [editline]03:44PM[/editline] I reinstalled Steam and it still crashes my computer. I clicked the icon and I got the "Platform Updating Screen" followed by my computer crashing. When it crashed I see the last rendered frame on the screen and I can't move my mouse or make the computer do anything. I just have to restart it.

Drivers?

yeah I would check the drivers

I doubt it's video drivers, I got them fresh from the website a few days ago. Should I just go through all of them? Any specifically that might be causing the problem?

Just roll back to winows video drivders then try that, if it works it is the drivers

I tried to update all my drivers. None to be updated. I tried rolling back drivers. None to be rolled back. Maybe I'm doing something wrong with the drivers. You just right click the item in the device manager right? Well I still have no luck. [editline]10:34PM[/editline] I was doing it wrong but I figured it out now. You have to go into Properties to roll back the drivers. Anyway, I just rolled back any that were able to and Steam works again! Now I just have to update them one by one and see which one is the bad one... myabe tomorrow.

[QUOTE=ryan1271;24532583]I tried to update all my drivers. None to be updated. I tried rolling back drivers. None to be rolled back. Maybe I'm doing something wrong with the drivers. You just right click the item in the device manager right? Well I still have no luck. [editline]10:34PM[/editline] I was doing it wrong but I figured it out now. You have to go into Properties to roll back the drivers. Anyway, I just rolled back any that were able to and Steam works again! Now I just have to update them one by one and see which one is the bad one... myabe tomorrow.[/QUOTE] If the GPU drivers are the ones you've most recently updated, its probably them.

Steam was working with my current GPU drivers. I checked and it wasn't it. Is there any advantage to having newer drivers? I may just stick with what works.

If the newer drivers don't cause a crash, stick with them. Most driver updates help you get better FPS during games.