ok, despite my suspicions about viruses and what-not, ultimately, i realised that the BSODs only happened at times when the temperature (in the room) was hotter than usual.

i opened up the PC to find all the fans covered in layers upon of layers of dust!!!

Now I have cleaned them all and I pray that it will solve the problem. :-?

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hmmm not really actually....if ur temp is too high all ur windows would do is Freeze..

Bsod is usually caused by some corrupted crap...wht OS u using BTW

u should try XP..hardly get a BSOD ever....dont matter wht ppl say about XP, its pretty damn stable, and whtever u heard on the net where u cant play copied stuff...all B**LSH*T..so yah, give XP a go and see if u like it..

What type of case do you have...and how many fans in it?

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its raining in Auckland....and yikes its cold...i turn on my PC...and the Temps were..the lowest i got/..

CPU: 19c
Case: 16c

but gradually after some games and Internet, Seti etc runned the temp gradually stayed at

CPU: 24
Case:22

yikes but was it still cold

and thts with a heater on in my room

yes, it's freezing first and when I CTL-ALT-DEL is when i get the BSODs usually... so it's probably heat related-huh?

I only use one fan - anyway, i realised i probably need another fan at this rate, but is it advisable to get more of that gooey stuff on the CPU, would it help, u think?

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tht gooey stuff is called Thermal Paste, try getting Artic Silver 3 Thermal Paste or whtever...actually truly i dont think its heat problem...do u hav a program which tells u the TEMP of ur PC....if so plz tell me the temps

i have kept a diary of times / temp when it goes beserk; at the time the CPU temp is usually around ....

49 C!!!

it sounds bad just writing about it

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yup yup u are right...ur temps are too high...

and by the looks at it 49c is only on idle, so imagine playing games for 2 hours or so, ur temp probable be 50++c.

id really go get my self
-a New HSF (fan) atleast 4500rpms (the faster the better, but the faster the louder the fan gets)
-New Thermal Paste or jst try to get some


and last but not least, if ur temps are still high, try removing ur Case Side Panels, probably reduces 5c-6c maybe more out of ur current temp