Here's a few areas to explore.
1. "Frequently users blame problems like this on sloppily programmed drivers or hardware mined with errors.
But often it turns out that the power supply unit..."
- http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20040122/
To sniff this out I drop the FSB from 266/200 to 100 MHz and the AGP rate to 1x. If its better...
2. Heat.
Pull the case cover, point a fan at it and try again.
3. BIOS.
Many builders won't install the latest BIOS. They (wrongly) think the new board would have a newer BIOS. This area seems to be very important with the AMD boards.
Bob
ok, heres the deal, I reinstalled my windows and all components a couple of months ago. Ever since my computer freezes while online and especially during a game(Nascar4 by Papyrus). When I reinstalled everything, I updated all drivers and Windows. I am at a total loss!!!!! Here is the message that appears when I reboot after a freeze...
"system has recovered from a serious error"
This is the Error Report:
c:\DOCUME-1\WILLY\LOCALS-1\TEMP\WERL.tmp.dir00\SYSDATA.xml and c:\WINDOWS\MINIDUMP\MINI031704-04.dmp
Here is my system:
AMD Athlon proc.
1.40 GHz...512 MB
Win XP (SP1+updates)
Nvidia GeForce4 mx 440 Vid, SB Live! series ver. 5.12.2.252
If anyone can help me I would GREATLY appriciate it. Thank you, Willy

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