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ORIGINAL: hammersinger

I went through a number of "crash to POST" errors with this. The Microsoft tool said it was a RAM problem. That probably meant that there was a memory leak in the code. That looked bad. Then I thought to uninstall everything and do a clean install on my C: drive. I had been trying to run it on my RAID array which is way faster than the C: drive. When on the C: drive it runs completely stable, as far as I can tell, in its initial install and with either patch.
My conclusion is that there are some calls in the code that tell it to look on C: somewhere for something. It cannot find that something and then "instability happens!" This is not good code btw. Lots of people nowadays have multiple drives, RAID, SCSI etc. I try to keep anything like games or Office or anything like that on the RAID because the C: is always the target of malware. I have lost total C: drive contents due to needed reformatting several times following infections. You get a malware attack every four minutes online now (some authorities say). Broadband is always on so any minute your computer is turned on it is getting malware insertion attempts. The less I need to reinstall the better. best, hammersinger