oops... wrong room sorry

Hi,

My Problem:
At first I noticed that I was having problems downloading with Bitlord. My downloads would jump from 180kbs to 1kbs and back again every minute... reinstalled bitlord, nothing. Then installed Utorrent, same thing. Changed internet providers... a little better... but the it is a better source now.

Now... after a month of this, when the files are "checking" my cpu is maxed at 100% and will eventually crash the system. Same thing with Winavi... start converting and system crashes. I get a quick blue screen and when my system starts back up... the windows error page says that I need to update my video device drivers or reduce my acceleration... I did both of those and the same thing still happens with the same blue screen and the same windows error page. Also.. when using excel, if I am grabbing some cells and scrolling fast... it reboots... playing Diablo II... it reboots. When it reboots... my mouse doesn't work... I have to reboot again to get it to register.

I have spoken to some local tech's and asked if it could be my memory, operating system(not genuine), video card, etc... but they just think I should buy a new computer... for cost will end up the same than replacing parts, and they don't know what part that is needed. My system may be 3 years old... but I am pretty sure it is salvageable and at minimul cost.

Would you have any idea what is causing the crashing? It doesn't seem to be related to any new software, and viruses (AVGfree) and spyware(Adware) checks have been done. I have looked for NVidia Firewall to turnoff... this version doesn't seem to have one... I turned off the windows firewall. I do believe it is some hardware as it starting crashing like this 2 years ago... but only with Diablo II.

I am currently using Utorrent, DVDShrink, WinAVI, NeroStartSmart, RatDVD, DaemonTools

Windows XP Pro (Not Genuine)
AMD Athlon XP 2000+, MMX, 3DNow, 1.7Ghz
768Mb Ram
250G HD
DirectX 9.0c
GForce4 MX440
Mouse: A4Tech WOP-35PU Optical WheelMouse

Thanks so much in advance
Kim

 

Sorry I'm new... wrong room

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