Hi, i was recently playing a game on my PC when it crashed. An error message appeared, and the whole of the graphics on my desktop went dodgy, like very very low quality. I can't remember exactly what it said, but it told me to reboot, so i did. After rebooting, it gets to the Windows loading page, then bluescreens and reboots again. I have tried F8 and all of Safe mode, Recent Settings and VGA mode, but unfortunately, both are met with the Blue Screen and reboot again. Its too fast for me to read, shift & pause doesn't work, and i cannot get into the windows settings to turn auto-reboot on error off. Anyway, after realising that its being fussy, i decided to just reformat it, as everything on it can easily be re-downloaded However, after the WinXP disc has finished loading, it also Blue Screens, stating the PC has restarted to prevent any further damage. I have reformatted and that before, and its always been simple, even on the same PC. I have also not made any hardware changes to the PC whatsoever. And i cannot think of any recent downloads that may of affected it, other than the game i was playing which crashed. Windows XP Pro SP3, Intel Core2 Quad Processor, 4gb DDR2 RAM Nvidea 9800GT Graphics card. Thanks for any help!

In your bios is a setting to pause on error so you can read BSOD error. Since you stated that your reloaded windows and it is still happening that points to hardware. Easy thing to check first is remove all hardware not needed to boot. Printers scanners NIC ect. Boot. if error is still there Check RAM Remove all but 1 stick, boot swap RAM boot. Here is a link that explains BSOD errors Trouble shooting BSOD http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm "Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep." Theodore Roosevelt New York City, February 17, 1899

I've looked through Setup and cannot find the pause on error option. The only harware connected to my PC other than my monitor, mouse and keyboard was my router, and removing that didn't help. Going to remove the RAM now and will get back to you shortly. Thanks for the fast reply too :D

Removing RAM also didn't solve it. Any more ideas?

The setting to pause on error so you can read BSOD error is accessed from within XP, not the bios. Since you cannot boot into XP, that's going to help. You could probably change the stting by booting to a live CD, but it sounds like you have a hardware problem. When you removed the RAM, did you hear any beeps ? Also, go back into the bios and check temperatures, particularly the cpu temperature.

No, there wasn't any bleeps when i removed the RAM, and i cannot boot to the windows CD because as soon as it gets to Windows Setting Up it also Bluescreens. Temps: CPU 48'C System 44'C System fan speed 2450 RPM CPU Fan Speed 1991 RPM Dont know if you need all the following, but i might aswell put it down while im here; Vccp - 1.29V Vddr - 1.77V + 3.3V - 3.32V +12V - 11.90V +5V - 5.02V Voltage Battery - 3.16V

did you swap ram? you have 4 GB if that is 4 sticks try one at a time If you can swap KB and mouse also. If you can create an UBCD4WIN cd http://www.ubcd4win.com/ that has some good tools to check hardware, make sure you add memtest plug-in. Good luck "Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep." Theodore Roosevelt New York City, February 17, 1899