Hi all. My computer has problems. Again.......:
Here is the list of what went wrong.

1.)During sleep mode the comp freezes and I have to manually reboot.
2.)I was uninstalling my sound card drivers and bundled software.
3.)I got a fatal exception error and illegal operation during the middle of the uninstall
4.)I rebooted cuz it froze.
5.)Windows froze and told me my registry was bad.
6.)Windows freezes and tells me I have a combination of illegal ops fatal exceptions and registry errors about 5 times.
7.)During pre-win bootup I get a message saying something about corrupt XMT and then a hex code. Then it says Himem.sys is corrupt.
8.)I try to boot into safemode No success see below
8.)The screen goes blank and I try to reboot (no success) then I press the power-off button and it stays on.
9.)5 min later it shuts off fine and I load windows just fine.
10.)The sound software still loads (EAX)
11.)Somewhere during the crashes I get a message telling me that my system monitoring program has a fatal exception and illegal Operation a few times (the sys monitor is a program that check the cpu temp fan speed ram usage ect.)
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Wierd huh!
Do you have any idea what this is?
Do I have a serious hardware problem? (when the computer wouldn't shut off I was really scared)
Or is it software?
Should I format my hard-drive and start over?

Thanks for the help!

Punkin