professor1942,
Yeah, I crash with the BSOD and it never gets logged in Eventviewer either, but it does in others from what I've seen. Also, seems like we have very similar problems now as I boot perfectly, it just 0x0000009c's on me. Just a note though, I posted this in the other thread. My DVD drive was making a really weird irregular cackling noise during the blue line XP booting screen. Shortly after, it BSODs and after reboot same thing. I take DVD out, no problem. Weird thing is that disc(movie) ran fine for hours yesterday. I'm using a different disk no problem now too. But I once had a mouse work for a while and then lock up the system (confirmed it was mouse since no problem after swapping). I've also had weird behaviour from my drive before, and this particular BSOD does suggest a hardware problem, maybe I found it. So try checking your optical (take discs out, unplug it, etc.), it may be the problem.
What sucks is that my optical drive, if it is failing, it isn't doing it often enough for me to confirm it as a problem.