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I have been having problems with my home machine for a long time now. About 8 months or so ago I built a new rig since my old setup was kinda out dated and it was BSOD nonstop and leaving no resolution in mem dumps. I tried components from known good machines and fresh installs of windows and never got it to quit crashing so I just built a new one. Had issues with it as well when trying to install windows. Finally got it to work for good while, moved to vista ultimate after a while and all worked well........then one day it started doing the same thing as old setup. Only thing I transfered over was psu, case, and vid card. I tried known good ones and no change. Tried different memory, vid card, psu, cd/dvd roms, disabled everything in the bios that wasnt critical, removed sound card, and just about every other thing I could think of but still BSOD or locks up randomly. Made sure that there was enough arctic silver under sinks as well. I even went back to XP and SAME DAMN THING!!! So I went to the extreme, installed Fedora linux on a seperate drive and it was super unstable as well. Now for this weird part............................drum roll.............................Installed OS X 10.5.2 on the same hdd that had linux on it and guess what....NO CRASHES OR LOCKUPS SINCE! This sux!! I dont mind using it on my laptop for work but I wanna game on this thing and you all know games are few and far between for os x. Whats a ninja to do!!!

All those changes, but if you have the same troublesome drivers loading time and time again, it can give you these issues.

Has your motherboard changed at any time during these issues?

Same problem with two completely different motherboards/cpu. Old rig was amd FX57 w/A8n sli mobo, this time its intel E6750 w/ p5ne sli mobo. Ive tried older drivers and had no luck. I figured it was psu so borrowed one from my buddies comp that has been working flawlessly for long time, my machine crashes after a few hours with his psu as well. Tried pci video card instead of my xfx pcie card, same thing. I forgot to mention that Im using the same hdd array, but I also installed windows on a seperate BRAND NEW ide drive and same thing. Im runnin out of things to replace on this clunker.

The biggest question is, are you having the same issue, or are these similar issues caused by different things. Sometimes though, some hardware doesn't play well with others, a video card for example, might work fine on one board, but not quite so on others.