Returning complete freeze

Hello everone!
This has been happening and bothering me for a while now:
Everytime I do heavy work on my computer (in this instance FL studio on paralells desktop, or running a server for a game) The chance occurs that the following chain of events happen:
1: Randomly, independent of how heavy the work is, my FPS drops. Any movement is only possible during this stage, not enough to save your project file for example.
2: I can see the cpu usage bar in FL Studio pop up to 99+% about 20 seconds later.
3: The spinning beachball of death appears, and rotates
4: The beachball stops rotating
5: complete hang, the fan doesn't turn on and nothing responds.
It's like no more tasks are being accepted, my computer just feezes and the only way to get out of it is with a rough restart. That's also why I don't have a crashlog. I need 3 out of 4 gigs of RAM and all the 4 cpu cores for my FL to work propperly, but it's not using that all the time.
This would also happen when I would play on my extremely overmodded minecraft server, so it's not just paralells. In that instance, the fan would still go on.
Please help!
EDIT!: I've left my computer on for 12 hours after the crash, nothing changed. So I closed my computer, and opened it again. The screen went on again and the login didn't appear. (I did wait for the backlight to go out) It just continues crashing itself.

Your MBA probably doesn't have enough RAM to do what you are trying to do. 4 GB is probably insufficient for trying to run virtualization software. It will run, but it won't run well. But you can't put more RAM in your MBA.
There could be other software reasons why you are getting the SBBOD, though. Etresoft: EtreCheck is a free app developed by one of the contributors to this forum which will generate a system report on your computer. If you can paste the report here we can take a look and see what might be the problem.

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