well, the only thing i can see in the system event thing is a "Save Dump" saysThe computer has rebooted from a bugcheck, then aheap of ID stuff. As for a memcheck how do I go about doing one?

the crashing happens randomly in windows, I could be watching a movie, browsing the web, ect... But, I havnt had a crash while playing a game yet which seems odd. Also, I put a fresh install of windows on after putting in all the new hardware.

I recently installed a few new parts into my computer and now it seems to be randomly rebooting/crashing. New things I installed were a motherboard, cpu and RAM. Everything seems to be installed fine, so I'm thinking it may be a problem with my cpu overheating, as I put the thermal paste on myself, and may have put a little too much/too less on it. So, as soon as one of these reboots happen when I check hardware monitor in bios, im getting a cpu temp of around 39C-40C, and MB temp of 34C-35C. The CPU temp seems pretty high for just booting up right? So do u think it could be my thermal paste job causing the heat? if so, any suggestions on applying it?

Damn, I just deleted LOTRO off my computer about a week ago, after the free week comeback thing. I think its a pretty fun game, it fills in free time when have nothing else to play and if its free then u have nothing to lose other then bordom.

Thanks heaps, it worked. Going to save me alot of hassels. :P

So I got the retail version of Metro today, and just attempted to install it. Everything seemed to be going fine up untill it said it would now begin installing, and instead of installing from the CD, its deciding to download the whole thing through steam. Iv only got about 4GB left on my downloads for the next week, and the games something like 7GB. Does anyone have any ideas how I could get the game to install from the Disc, or why its wanting to download the whole game?

About $650

got a new Motherboard, M4A79XTD EVO. $150

CPU, PII X4 955. $170

GPU, HD4870. $220

RAM, 4GB DDR3. $120

lol, yes. Was pulling on the heat sink hopping it would wriggle off, but the whole thing came out. Its an old cpu so its not going to cost me anything if it happens to break, but it would still be nice to have a backup cpu for my girlfriends PC.

So i cant get this damn heatsink off of a cpu Iv got, and I cant stick the cpu into its socket because the heatsinks too big to open the leaver. So any sujestions on how to remove it? I though of maybe heating it up alittle to soften the thermalpaste, but im alittle worried about damaging the cpu.

Ah, well as long as its saying the same thing for someone else, I suppose its just the program, Hopfully. :P