kram21

Hi,

thanks for your responses, the system seems to have become more stable by itself, all i have done is turn of dream scenes, but i havent had the chance to test the gfx card doing anything taxing yet.

ok so the chkdsk reports all ok, am going to start memory testing soon,

i have found a kernel-general event id 5 error which seems to be the most relevant to my problem, ill copy the details below

general tab description

{Registry Hive Recovered} Registry hive (file): 'SOFTWARE' was corrupted and it has been recovered. Some data might have been lost.

and in the details tab i get this

- System

- Provider

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-General
[ Guid] {a68ca8b7-004f-d7b6-a698-07e2de0f1f5d}

EventID 5

Version 0

Level 2

Task 0

Opcode 0

Keywords 0x8000000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2008-04-17T22:30:15.968Z

EventRecordID 17160

Correlation

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 592
[ ThreadID] 596

Channel System

Computer halfcut2000

- Security

[ UserID] S-1-5-18


- EventData

FinalStatus 0x8000002a
ExtraStringLength 8
ExtraString SOFTWARE

I am already using the windows recommended drivers for the gfx card,

is there any kind of diagnostic tool i can run on my gfx card like a memtest, to isolate whether its a hardware problem, i googled it but couldnt find anything for vista

again thanks for all your help