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I have a screen shot of the error message I receive when in windows.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/153712338/153712437eCPOLQ
I am running a watercooled system with CDRW, DVD, 5900 Ultra, etc. The system has 350 Watt powersupply. Is this blue screen error message indicitative that I need to upgrade to a 400 Watt or higher?

does this occur all the time or just in once? What about changes, have you changed anything recently (hardware and software)?
Seems SYMFW.SYS is the problem area.
Ben,
Pentium 4 1.7GHz, 256 Cache
512 DDR RAM PC2700
ATI Radeon 9200SE 128 DDR RAM
Western Digital 80GB 7200 RPM

Judging by the hex code the screen put up it would seem you have a bad memory problem most likly in your RAM or possibly in your video although less likely..try taking out all your modules and replaceing them one at a time to find the bad one.
Make sure u are free of any static befire tiuching the chipsets. Just touch a metal legpost to earth yourself out.
Regards Soldano
Work Is The Rent We Pay For The Space We Occupy On Earth
AMD Athlon XP2500 Codegen 550W P/S
Gigabyte GA-8KNXP
1 Gig ECC-DDRAM
2x200gig SATA Seagate HDD
Pioneer A06 DVD Burner

I thought it was the ram, so I ran this program that checks RAM in DOS. No errors came up and I still get the blue screen everyonce and a while. It seems this problem began after I upgraded to a 3.2 Pentium 4 Processor from a 2.2 P4, but I'm not sure.

if you upgraded the CPU, did you change the FSB and multiplier accordingly? I highly doubt that the CPU change could do anything, specially as it is a increase in CPU speed, not a decrease.:-/
What about if you compile a list of programs running everytime this happens so we can see if a particular non-sytem program is causing this.
Ben,
Pentium 4 1.7GHz, 512 LB Cache
512 DDR RAM PC2700
ATI Radeon 9200SE 128 DDR RAM
Western Digital 80GB 7200 RPM

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