[CS-FSLUG] Really bad situation

[N. Thompson]

For well over a month now Windows XP has been running terribly unstable, in a 
best case scenario uptime has reached about 5 minutes, I don't know whats 
wrong with the thing, I've got up to date anti-virus and I do regular scans, 
I've got a firewall, I've got all the available windows updates, I don't use 
Internet Explorer (I use firefox), I have literally nothing more then the a 
completely bare Windows XP system with a few games and programs that won't 
run in Linux.

I've checked the hardware with memtest86, it ran through over 70 times without 
finding anything wrong with the ram, I've run scandisk in Windows (Windows 
doesn't like letting Linux scan and fix its drives) and I've done everything 
else I could think of to make the thing run stabily to no avail.

The only time I can remember it running well was from the time of purchase up 
to april, the rest of the time it became increasingly unstable up to this 
point at which it won't even run for 5 mintues any more.

The only possible lead I have is that the video card monitor at one point said 
that the card was overheating or something along those lines, I didn't catch 
the full message since it went away fairly quickly and ever since then I've 
checked the monitor regularly to find that the Video card was running at a 
perfectly reasonable temperature.