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Yeah so, this happened while watching a movie with VLC (startup items ctfmon and aim6 running)
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Got this while listening to music and DLing pictures off the net with startup items ctfmon and DC++ turned on.
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Got this right after logging on after that...
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Got this while putting in my password to log in:
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Then when trying to log in for the second time the computer froze at the "please wait while windows logs in" screen.
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I'm still leaning towards the video card. Did you ever try installing some older drivers?
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I've been running video driver version 84.21 for about 6 days now.
Got this while idling with startup items ctfmon and DC++ running.
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Got this with startup items ctfmon, DC++, and aim6 enabled. Was also using winamp to listen to music. This one happened right after the screen saver came on.
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Run a REPAIR to your installation of XP.

Doing this will re-register all the hardware and some may be given new IRQ's...let's see if doing this helps. (I'm still leaning towards the video card.)
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Ok, I'll do that later tonight.
Don't let this affect your judgment, but I really wouldn't mind if the video card was the problem. Its still under warrenty.

Thanks for sticking with me on this! :whistling:
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Okay before I tell you what happened with the repair I thought I'd show you this.
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I highlighted what I think was most interesting/intriguing.

Anyway I would like to point out that at any time in the repair process when the computer has to reboot, I must remove the XP cd or this happens:
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Also during the repair it asked for a CD which turned out to be my motherboard CD. I only bring this up because windows has never asked me for a different CD than the one that has XP on it.
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During the repair I had to leave the computer alone (classes) and it finished on its own. Then it rebooted and I got that "error loading operating system" screen again. I don't think this is a problem though, just a simple matter of rebooting without the CD in the drive.
Then like five seconds after logging in for the first time logging in after the reboot I get this. I'm not sure which startup items were running but I think the repair reset some of them.
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Did you install the SATA/RAID drivers?
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What SATA/RAID Drivers? When?
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Same startup items as last time, wasn't even doing anything intense. Just moving applications from one place to another.
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Also since this BSOD all my bookmarks in Firefox have disappeared.

edit: should I disable the majority of these startup items like I was before?

Edited by you_silly_mortals, 13 February 2007 - 01:00 PM.

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Whenever I try to change the screen saver the screen does this and is irreversible (unless I push the power button which shuts down the computer)
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Also the last time I tried to post this I couldn't connect to the net. When I tried to repair the connection I got this:
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Left the computer on over night, woke up and it was at the login screen. Event viewer shows this as the last thing to happen:
Error code 1000008e, parameter1 c0000005, parameter2 bf8048ba, parameter3 b9996714, parameter4 00000000

Since the repair the blue screens are coming with a timer and then the computer automatically restarts, whats up with that. It wasn't doing that before.
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Didn't take long after login for this to happen:
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The Microsoft help that automatically happens every time I blue screen blamed the video card drivers this time too.
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