[CS-FSLUG] Really bad situation

[Clawman]

Well,

>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
>
That service pack two did my wife's in.
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>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.
>  
>
Here are some questions:
What processor is the machine running and what motherboard?
Are any temperature alarms going off? (when you reboot, check all
the temps in the bios)
Have you installed service pack 2?