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Please help before I shoot myself!!!

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I think what you need to do is take out all of your hardware except harddrive, videocard, CPU and memory and see if it still crashes. If not, then keep adding hardware until you get to the culprit.
 
Also, if you are using more than one memory module, try just using one. If still problems, swap them. Then add other hardware.
 
i don't think it's a heat problem. i did try taking out each piece of hardware and installing them one by one. and it crashed every time. i even tried flashing my mobo. this is honestly the most infuriating problem i've ever encountered with a computer. i'm really regretting formatting my computer.

thanks for all your suggestions, i ain't giving up yet so keep them coming please.
 
When you installed Windows XP, did the installation go smoothly?

Once, my friend tried installing Windows XP for me while I was at class (he's a Microsoft Fanboi). He kept getting random installation errors, and tried flashing my bios. Jacked my bios, so my computer didn't POST. I waited for ASUS to send a new BIOS chip (while resisting the urge to kill him), and then reinstalled Windows XP. However, I kept getting lots of crashes, and plenty of errors.

After lots of trouble shooting, I narrowed it down to a bad stick of RAM. Took out the offending chip, reinstalled Windows XP, and was good to go.

Edit: Are you trying to install a legal version of XP, or a slipstreamed version? If you installed Service Pack 1, what were the steps you took before you installed it. Maybe you had a conflict during the service pack installation.
 
Yeah, I would suggest reinstalling Windows with a different copy of it. That happend to me once and none of the games would work. I returned it to the store and they gave me a fresh copyand it worked like a charm. If that doesn't work, check your ram, although you probably tried that already. Every time I was confronted with a blue screen with windows XP turned out to be RAM failure. That was 3 times where I had seen RAM cause BSODs in XP. Anyways, hope this helps and good luck with your computer.

PS: Hope you're using a BB gun or a paintball gun or something...
 
Did you installed Direct X 9?

Run a ramtest and see if your RAM is faulty. like memtest or something.

Right click on My Computer...goto advanced..start-up and recovery and turn off automatic reboots. Maybe you can see what it is blue screening on.
 
I'd say tis either bad RAM or bad sectors on the harddrive. It's possible that XP always installs onto the harddrive. Either that, or some sort of corruption along the harddrive or RAM.

Try a different stick of RAM, as he said.
 
the installation of windows went smoothly as far as i can tell. it's just a regular copy of windows xp without the sp1. the games still crash with or without the audigy. and the memory seems fine. my last resort is to try another copy of windows xp.

and the only gun i have is a paintball gun. a 2000 wgp sto if anybody is interested. it's gonna hurt like hell but i (hopefully) won't die from shooting myself.
 
You say it's without Sp1. 2 reasons for this.

1.You haven't installed it because u lazy.

2. You have an RC1 veriosn of Xp or lower and cannot update it without crackiong it, which you obviously haven't done.
 
i did install sp1. what i meant is that the disc is not slipstreamed with sp1. so i just install xp first then i install the sp1 from the web update.
 
First of all, if you have a 256X2 configuration, try taking out one stick of RAM, and trying that by itself. Then try the other stick by itself. It's very likely that you have bad RAM. There was one time where my friend could install 98 fine, but couldn't install winme for the life of him. But under 98 it was unstable. Turned out to be bad RAM. Try another stick of RAM, preferably from a friends machine. Then reinstall and see if it works okay. If not, then try and underclock your CPU and see if that helps.
 
OMG all these replies and you still haven't answered like the FIRST question we asked. WHAT'S THE EXACT ERROR? (When you get a Blue Scrn or when you look in your dump file(s))

Thorin
 
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