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Message: [QUOTE="Malke, post: 9251652"] Drew, I researched your Stop Error here: [URL]http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm[/URL] which lead me to a rather old MSDN article here: [URL]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/w2kmsgs/1123.asp[/URL] Googling for the Stop Error doesn't bring me anything definitive, but if I were troubleshooting the machine here in the shop I would run some hardware diagnostics, starting with the hard drive (since you say running Chkdsk affects the problem) and then testing the RAM next. Here are some general hardware troubleshooting steps: [URL]http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot[/URL] If the hardware passes the diagnostics, then much as you don't want to I think the next step is to restore to factory condition. If the problems continue immediately after that restoration, you will know the issue is most probably a hardware one. Whatever you decide to do, back up your data immediately. Malke [/QUOTE]