wafblog v3.0

So, over the festive break I took the opportunity to reformat my computer as well as install extra RAM into it. Tichondrius is now sporting a sweeet 2GB of RAM. After some initial hiccups with memtest (damn ASUS BIOS bug!) it seemed to be working fine. My main reason for reinstalling XP was to get rid of some nasty errors that I kept getting. I have a few hard drives in my computer, and on each of the drives I usually have at least 2 partitions. Only because I like to have separate ‘drives’ for different files (Document, Games, Music, Movies). I used to have this problem where, if I clicked on a file (usually a TV episode), Windows Explorer would have an error and I would get a pop-up box saying that it had to be shutdown. If I was really lucky I’d also get a Dr Watson error. I’d click ok, Explorer would disappear, the taskbar would disappear and then reload, and that would usually be fine. Of course, it’s a complete pain in the backside to have this happen for just about every file as I like to rename mine with the title. Initially I thought it might be a HDD error, but a Seagate Tools diagnostic said everything was fine. Then I suspected the RAM, but memtest cleared that as well. After re-formatting, I was sure that the problem had gone… until a week ago when I was trying to rename something and *bam!* error again. I’m not sure if it’s a kernel problem, but I haven’t been tinkering with the registry or anything. Maybe a program running in the background is causing a conflict? But I can’t seem to see any real consistency to the problem so I don’t know. It seems to happen on any drive, not just a particular one and even after I re-partitioned stuff it still happens. It’s becoming quite frustrating and I’m kind of stumped on how to fix it as no one else seems to have had this sort of problem. So really.. I’m just throwing it out there… anybody have any ideas? Maybe I should just wait for Vista.