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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Byrons_Ghost" data-source="post: 3103173" data-attributes="member: 7396">Well, I've got my data backed up on a secondary drive, so that's not a problem. I just didn't know if formatting first would mess up the restore process. Since it seems like it'll format itself, I won't worry doing it beforehand.I Googled around for some diagnostics last night and played around a little with PassMark. It came up with some video display errors, saying that there was corrupt video RAM. However, according to the programmers on the boards, the test is picky enough that a few corrupt video RAM errors are common. Which of course isn't really helpful in determining whether my video RAM is really bad or not.I also searched on the error code that has been coming up on the BSOD, and found a tweak to change in boot.ini that supposedly causes the error in processors that are 64 bit compatible. I made the change, and it helped some, but I'm still got some program crashes, though they were crashes to desktop, I haven't seen BSOD again yet. So there's probably multiple things that are combining together to create these problems.Later today I'm going to try the MS update drivers and also try some BIOS tweaks that I found on search. If those don't work, then it'll be time for the reinstall.Thanks to everyone for their help so far!</blockquote>