[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Looks and sounds like you are having an OS corruption problem, but it might be the Harddrive as well.

I would slave the drive over to another machine and do a complete backup of everything you want. Then, I would do a clean re-install of Windows on that drive.

Keep your data backed up on a regular basis and start using the machine again. If you start getting BSOD again on a regular basis, then you probably just have a bad harddrive. A new harddrive would be much cheaper than a new machine, so that is the route I would take if I were you.

[webschooner]

Thanks.

I am not familiar with how to “slave the drive to another machine”, but I could research that.

I could backup and reformat the hard drive, and had thought of that, but wanted to make sure I didn’t have a hardware issue before I went to all that work. I usually reformat the hard drive every year to year and a half.

[RobRoy]

>>Looks and sounds like you are having an OS corruption problem, but it might be the Harddrive as well.<<

That was my thought as well. With the exception of my very first computer, which had a bad mother board from day one, every computer I’ve had that had a “non-sofware” problem was always a hard drive going TU. The most annoying was when I backed up the primary hard drive only to find out it was the secondary that was going bad. Lost everything on it.

But I’m voting for bad hard drive. Always look to the moving parts for the problem.