A graphics card will only cause a hard reset if your using a VGA heavy application, or it has a fan problem, such as being overlocked and/or stop spinning after a while, not a simple "I'm doing nothing, and it crashes" scenario. Which reminds, is your graphics card fan spinning? There are some viruses which have been known…
loooooooong wait indeed, i set it up - went picked up some pizza for the family, watched some hockey, played some 360, watched a movie...yes im that productive :D (i turned down drinks tonight because im too broke to go out two nights in a row lol) but in the end i stopped it at pass 10 with zero errors and am now running…
Ace-Angel - its more or less as if the freezing never stopped, i think i only spent a few hours on it after the clean installing some programs and within a day or two it froze again... i plan on testing the RAM and HDD's tomorrow sometime as i have a different computer hooked up tonight G3L - good to hear about the power…