Please help me with my prob

Thalasi

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Well I'm having some serious problems with my comp.
From my previous post:



<< A while back I had a random reboot problem but it seemed to go away all by itself. Now about a month later it has returned. Some times my machine will restart the second windows is up, other times it will be 30 minutes to an hour before it reboots. I've updated every driver that I could possible find and made sure there wasn't yet another new bios for my board.
For my system spec see them in my sig.
Along with those specs I have an Enermax EG465P-VE FC power supply.

One thing I've noticed is that when it does reboot is seems like it takes the hard drive a cupple seconds longer to spin up, about 2 seconds after the bios detects it you can hear it finially spin up. Could this possibly be a sign of a bad hard drive or perhaps the motherboard. I just got this board so I hope it's not faulty. I've tried new IDE cables, unplugging all the cd-roms, using a different molex for the hard drive, set bios settings to a bare minimal settings, I just don't have another power supply to try out.
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*Since then I've gotten it to display the bsod instead of restart. The Stop errors it is giving me are:

1-An attempt was made to write to read-only memory.
--This driver may be at fault: nv4_disp.dll

2-KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
--Address blah blah blah - win32k.sys

3-PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGE_AREA
--Address blah blah blah - nv4_disp.dll

*Along with that, under the Event Viewer I have the error "Service Control Manager" which under the description states:

The following boot-start or system-star driver(s) failed to load:
i8042prt

*There is also the warning "i8042prt" which under the descriptions states:

The keyboard device does not exist or was not detected.



So I'm left wondering.
Could someone please lend me their expertise on this.
 

Thalasi

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Nope, its almost brand new now. This 60GB replaced my 20GB about 2 months ago.
 

Thalasi

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I did format and reinstall Win2K... could this backdoor survive that?
Also, if it is my display driver from nVidia (23.11) why would it start now and not when I installed it when it came out back at the beginning of december. I'll run the older drivers for now to see if they're the culprit.
 

Thalasi

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Well right after i reinstalled windows i installed the following:

All Device Drivers
WinZip 8.1
NVmax 4.00.35
SiSoft Sandra 2002
WindowsBlinds 3.1
IconPackager 1.51
Trillian 0.722

This time I held off on NVmax and am using the older version of det's.
 

Thalasi

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Alrighty, here's the new: Reinstalled Win2K without a prob like usual. Install all the newest device drivers, other than the 23.11 I went with the 21.83 to see if it would make a difference, and installed the bare minimum I want to be on my system:
WinZip 8.1
WindowsBlinds 3.1
IconPackager 1.51
Trillian 0.722
Nero 5.5.7.2
WinAmp
PC-cillin
And all was perfectly fine for almost a whole day. So I thought sweet, I've solved my problem. I then installed Office XP and the google toolbar. And things were fine for a bit longer. But then 20 minutes later my system spontaniously reboots. So I'm a little peeved but figure I have it narrowed down to Office, god only knows why. I disable the auto reboot on system failure when it's back up but do not restart it yet since I've just uninstalled Office and figure my problem is gone. So I'm surfin' the net again and boom, system reboots. Now I don't know what to think. Logically it could only be the google toolbar... but how?? I go ahead and uninstall that as well. Now I'm back without the google toolbar, and with Office installed and haven't had a system failure in...oh...probly an hour or so, but there's no telling if it will do it again soon. Could it possibly be that silly toolbar or is my mobo just screwed like was suggested to me? :(