How Often Does Your System Crash/Reboot?

[MrYum]

Originally Posted by Mr. Blue

A little ounce of protection goes a long way. I have two programs that I always leave on, Avast Anti-virus and Microsoft Spyware remover...I use firefox to surf...and I'm a little careful with my email. I set all the updates, scans, etc, for when I'm sleeping and I never notice it.

Good advice Mr Blue

I run XP Pro 2.8ghz P4 1gig of Kingston Extreme RAM. Built this machine with my own two grubby paws just over 2 years ago. Have had one bsod in that time. A few days ago...had about 15 applications opened at the time...was unzipping some content files...and boink...bsod. Rebooted and it's been fine since.

Sure sounds hardware related from what you describe. Overall, XP Pro is very stable...usually...