OK, I am getting really irate now. My PC has been having random restarts and hangs for a very long time. I read recently to switch off auto restart and VPU recover (I have latest Catalyst drivers). I also set card back to AGP 4x, and turned off Fast Write, all to no avail. Now, every time I play ANY 3D game made in the last 5 years for a while, my comp will either restart, hang or display a blank blue screen. I checked my error logs and have come up with this, every time: Error code 1000008e, parameter1 c0000005, parameter2 bfadb067, parameter3 b6cc6a24, parameter4 00000000. The bit files are: 0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E 0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er 0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code 0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 38 1000008 0020: 65 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d e Param 0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 63 30 eters c0 0030: 30 30 30 30 30 35 2c 20 000005, 0038: 62 66 61 64 62 30 36 37 bfadb067 0040: 2c 20 62 36 63 63 36 61 , b6cc6a 0048: 32 34 2c 20 30 30 30 30 24, 0000 0050: 30 30 30 30 0000 Also, I noticed another prevalent error, I don't know if it is related: The Cdfideuptdf service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified. I don't have any idea what that service even is, let alone why it's broken. Some help on this would REALLY be useful. It can't be heat, I have a giant fan blowing the crap outta my case and I have played around with numerous driver revisions so its not that, I also have a 450Watt PSU. Heres my specs: Gigabyte GS800 MoBo P4 2.4Ghz 533MHz FSB 512 mB Kingston DDR400MHz RAM Codegen 450 Watt PSU Sony 16x DVDROM Liteon 52x R/W CDROM HIS Excalibur 128Mb Radeon 9700 Pro Realtek Fast 10/100 Ethernet Adapter Skraeling Test server 10 Lvl 18 Orc Shaman

I would run Prime95 to see if your CPU chip is generating errors: http://mersenne.org/freesoft

Oops. That link is at least no longer valid, thus it's here: http://mersenne.org/freesoft.htm If Prime95 scrolls an error message or Windows XP crashes during the Prime95 torture test, your CPU chip is unstable!!!

OK, I will try this and see what happens although I have tried a few CPU tests before with no problems, but I will let you know what the results are. Also, what does that service error mean? I still have no idea what that service is, and it doesn't show up on Google... Cheers, Skraeling Skraeling Test server 10 Lvl 18 Orc Shaman

Well, well. OK, so I ran this test and it seems that my CPU is the problem. It came up with this error: FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 04. Hardware failure detected, check stress.txt file. Well, there ya have it. My CPU is thouroughly ruined (correct me if I'm wrong). I will test my card in a mate's machine just to be sure, but at least now I have something to work off. Thank you Randy! Cheers, Skraeling Skraeling Test server 10 Lvl 18 Orc Shaman

hey i got the same exact prob!