Skype freezes my system completely

Hello. I have been struggling with this problem for a long time now. When I hit call on skype it instantly freezes my system. Im pretty sure it freezes the display driver alone becouse I listen to music while I talk on skype and when I discovered this problem when it freezed I could still hear the music in the background. The crash has phases. First it freezes skype then it freezes every other software (the cursor can still be moved but can not click on anything) and finaly it freezes the cursor. During this I can not do anything Im always forced to do a forced restart. Plz help ! 
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Please,  run the DirectX diagnostics tool (32-bit option).
Go to Windows Start and in the Run box type dxdiag.exe and press the OK button. This will start the DirectX diagnostics program. Run this diagnostics and save the results to a file. Please, attach this file to your post.
Be aware that you will have to zip this file before attaching it here.

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