OK, so somehow my computer got seriously fcked up, and I mean fcked!
Here’s the deal: In the past three weeks my computer has crashed an average of twice per day, many times more. It started when I installed Shadows of Undrentide. I would be playing it or a while, and then the game would crash after five to thirty minutes. I noticed from reading their message board that a lot of poeple had that problem, so I stopped playing and was waiting for a patch to come out. Throughout the week, my PC would crash at random times, usually while using Media Player, but sometimes anytime.
I also bought and installed Star Wars Galaxies, and that crashed during game as well, a lot. Most of the crashes have been the windows XP blue screen, but sometimes I merely got kicked from the game.
I also stopped playing galaxies for a while. I haven’t played that in about five days. But now, I crash left and right while doing simple things like browsing the internet. I also think I had some spyware, since a couple pop-ups alkways appeared when I started IE, so I ran Ad-Aware, but guess what? Yup, a crash. And when I started up, it crashed again after logon. I tried to run it again, but more crashing insued. I ran Spybot, it got a lot of stuff, but no crash. It couldn’t remove one item, so i restarted and ran it again, this time it did crash.
So trhat’s where I am, I get a blue screen now every five to thirty minutes, it seems, for no reason. It seems that whatever serious ass thing that occured can only be gotten rid of with a reformat, which means all 100 GB of my stuff I have is gone unless I back it up on CD-R’s, which will take a loooong time.
So, any other suggestions before I do the almost inevitable?