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Hi guys, sorry for taking a while to respond after you had put in so much effort helping me to track the problem down. I was already running the latest drivers for both the nForce chipset (5.10) and my nvidia FX5950 (93.71) according to the nvidia site. I have just spent some time this morning running the nvidia un-installer to remove all the drivers and then re-installing them with the latest drivers downloaded from the site. I don't think this will have solved my problem as it has not fixed the issue with my onboard S/PDIF which had recently stopped working (the crashes pre-date this, altho obv they could be symptoms of the same issue). I will continue compiling error reports if the crashes continue. I'm assuming that the drivers of the nvidia site are the ones I should be using?!? Cheers again for all your assistance.

Thanks for the reply cluberti, I've resumed the upload of the full 3GB dump, RAR-ed up it's only 523MB but the connection here is shocking (27K up, got dumped onto a shared usage for abusing the line, too much P2P :-s) so it'll take a while. I'll let you know. Are there any scanners you suggest I run in the meantime? I run a full AVG sweep of all my drives every week and a daily sweep of the C: drive. I run Adaware fairly frequently but not anything more than that. Muchos for all the help!

Cheers cluberti, the 3GB page file was taking forever to upload, even rar-ed I've PM'd you with the location of some of the kernel dumps, any help is much appreciated.

Thanks for the fast reply nitroshift, I've made the above changes. Couple of points though: 1.) When the system hangs it auto reboots, I'm not too sure when I am supposed to be doing right ctrl + scroll lock x2? 2.) My system is running with 3GB RAM, which will create a pretty massive dump file. Is this ok?

I have been suffering with system crahes for some time now. To be honest I was putting up with it because I couldnt be bothered to do anything about it. They have become more frequent and I should really do something about it. I followed the information in a post on another forum in order to be able to examine the error dumps. I seem to be getting many different programs as the cause of the problem and am not sure how to proceed. These range from games to things like VLC and Outlook. I am not very experienced at debugging these sorts of problems and so I was hoping someone may be able to help. I have included a sample of one of the crash dumps in the hope that someone can help. I can provide many more (there are currently 146 in my \Windows\Minidump folder ) if needed. Many thanks for any possible help. ************************************************** ***************************** * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ************************************************** ***************************** IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (a) An attempt was made to access a pageable (or completely invalid) address at an interrupt request level (IRQL) that is too high. This is usually caused by drivers using improper addresses. If a kernel debugger is available get the stack backtrace. Arguments: Arg1: fffe4080, memory referenced Arg2: 00000002, IRQL Arg3: 00000001, value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation Arg4: 806ee2dc, address which referenced memory Debugging Details: ------------------ WRITE_ADDRESS: fffe4080 CURRENT_IRQL: 2 FAULTING_IP: hal!HalpStopOhciInterrupt+5c 806ee2dc 890d8000feff mov dword ptr ds:[0FFFE0080h],ecx CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 2 DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT BUGCHECK_STR: 0xA PROCESS_NAME: Civ4Warlords.ex LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 80565674 to 806ee2dc STACK_TEXT: ae043cf0 80565674 00000000 00000001 00000000 hal!HalpStopOhciInterrupt+0x5c ae043d54 804de7ec 00000054 00000000 1863fe24 nt!ObpReferenceSecurityDescriptor+0x35 ae043d64 7c90eb94 badb0d00 1863fe1c ae043d98 nt!KiUnexpectedInterrupt65+0x2 WARNING: Frame IP not in any known module. Following frames may be wrong. ae043d68 badb0d00 1863fe1c ae043d98 ae043dcc 0x7c90eb94 ae043d6c 1863fe1c ae043d98 ae043dcc 00000000 0xbadb0d00 ae043d70 ae043d98 ae043dcc 00000000 00000000 0x1863fe1c ae043d74 ae043dcc 00000000 00000000 00000000 0xae043d98 ae043d98 00000000 0f2d5eac 1863fd48 1863fd48 0xae043dcc STACK_COMMAND: kb FOLLOWUP_IP: nt!ObpReferenceSecurityDescriptor+35 80565674 ?? ??? SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 1 SYMBOL_NAME: nt!ObpReferenceSecurityDescriptor+35 FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner MODULE_NAME: nt IMAGE_NAME: ntoskrnl.exe DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 42250ff9 FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0xA_W_nt!ObpReferenceSecurityDescriptor+35 BUCKET_ID: 0xA_W_nt!ObpReferenceSecurityDescriptor+35 Followup: MachineOwner ---------