Originally posted here by bballad
It may be the software added but doubtfull, both of those have been tested with winxp. Any hardware added recently? You say you have patched for the recent worm, did you have all the prerequisites for xp for the patch (i think it wanted the latest service pack.). Antother posibility is virtual memory,, is your HD almost full? A final option may be a bad pice of hardware, is the HD makeing noise, run a scan disk run a ram tester on your ram.
Nope, I have added no new hardware, only the software. I had all the critical Windows patches and updates installed before I patched the Blaster flaw.


Originally posted by bballad
I forgot to ask the all important temp question. has it been ratehr hot where you are recently, is your room air conditioned? If the system is overheating that caould cause BSOD. Also pop open the box, make sure the fans are running and loook for anything odd, you would be amazed the number of times I have found animals causeing odd system errors.
No bballad, it's not a temp issue. I got a new case about 2 months ago. It's a lot roomier than my previous box. I had to upgrade because I was getting BSOD's in the smaller case. THAT was due to heat dissipation. I've checked the fans too. They're A-OK (all 7 of them).



Originally posted by GandalfTheGrey
You didn't mention whether you are having Windows Update automatically apply patches. It is not unknown for a Microsoft patch to bomb a system with some combinatin of hardware/software they didn't anticipate and test against. Or some completely normal setup, actually.
No, I don't trust it to update itself (lol). I regularly check manually for critical updates and whatever else I deem necessary at the time.