Major System Errors

[enddogg]

I was running windows XP Pro on the following system
2 80GB 8MB Maxtor
D-Link 530TX+
Plextor CD-RW
MSI Geforce4 Ti4400
Asus A7V266 MB
1700 XP Palamino
Kingston 256 MB PC2100
Crucial 256 MB PC2100

Back around the end of February my PC started randomly rebooting (yes I know when windows xp encounters a major error it is supposed to reboot)
Anyway after a month of unresolved problems I formatted the drive and reloaded windows had a few problems but has been rebooting as bad up until about a week ago. Then it all started again ... about 10 mins of activity then reboot ... so I formatted again and again the same problems ... so I switched to 2000 pro but just get blue screens then reboots ... tried loading Redhat instead ... can't get through the install without an error
I've taken out the network card and changed hard drives and still no change.

The odd thing is is that 2 of my roommates are also having the same problems and we are all on the same network ... however the 3 roommate has no problems ... any ideas as to what might be causing this. Mine seems to have the most severe problems. I'm about to see if a 30 foot drop helps the unit
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
--Seth

 

[enddogg]

Just as a further note
I started with a WD 100GB 2MB HD ... low leveled it and reformatted and didn't fix the problem so that's when I switch to the 2 Maxtor drives
Also there is no common occurence of this issue ... the only time it doesn't seem to do it is playing networked games other than that it'll crash running WMA, AIM, WinMX, running DOS commands such as ipconfig /all ... etc etc
I am also using an Antec case with and Antec 350W PS ... if that says anything
I'm at a loss

 

[enddogg]

bump ... still needing help
Pulled out the network card and did a fresh install
It is no longer rebooting automatically however I am still getting lots of errors
The errors are the crashing of explorer ... windows explorer not IE and the crashing of windows media player

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Have you tried 1 stick of ram at a time to see if 1 is faulty, or run memtest86 on them? Tried clearing the CMOS and picking the optimal/fail-safe settings? Updated the bios?

 

[enddogg]

I tried flashing bios ... bought a new network card ... as soon as I went from no NIC to a NIC the system rebooted ... but finally tried the thing I should've tried from the start
tried booting the system with single stick of RAM ... Kingston RAM = crashed would not boot into windows ... Crucial RAM = booted fine
I think my Kingston RAM is bad but I'm gonna run it for a while before I'm sure

 

[foofoo]

hi,
try checking the suspected bad ram with memtest86.
link
good luck

 

[enddogg]

Thanks ... however I can't boot into windows with the bad module so so much for testing it but I already called Kingston and am RMAing the RAM.