Next thing I'd check is hardware failure. In order of most to least likely:
1) Hard drive is failing. 2) One or more memory chips are failing. 3) Motherboard is failing. 4) A PCI or AGP card is loose or faulty.
After booting in not-safe mode, try downgrading the screen resolution to something really rubbish (lowest available preferably) and see if that prevents the crash.
Try getting hold of a bootable Linux CD for something like Knoppix. Start lots and lots of apps under Linux and see if that crashes it.
If the former test does still crash but the latter does not then you've probably ruled out hardware as a cause. (And if not, you then face the tricky task of working out which hardware is failing.)
If the hardware's OK, you have a really odd Windows problem. If you get that far, reinstalling Windows and all software (after backing up your data, obviously) may be your only option.
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Date: 2006-01-31 09:55 pm (UTC)1) Hard drive is failing.
2) One or more memory chips are failing.
3) Motherboard is failing.
4) A PCI or AGP card is loose or faulty.
After booting in not-safe mode, try downgrading the screen resolution to something really rubbish (lowest available preferably) and see if that prevents the crash.
Try getting hold of a bootable Linux CD for something like Knoppix. Start lots and lots of apps under Linux and see if that crashes it.
If the former test does still crash but the latter does not then you've probably ruled out hardware as a cause. (And if not, you then face the tricky task of working out which hardware is failing.)
If the hardware's OK, you have a really odd Windows problem. If you get that far, reinstalling Windows and all software (after backing up your data, obviously) may be your only option.