[MadGamer]

Originally Posted by nffc

Well I hate system restore. It is so pointless, only real use is as an undo button for Windows, and it is so over-used **especially amongst people at previous place of work** where hardware diags, recovery, msconfig, could be more useful. It gives no information about what's different, and if a wanted change is rolled back could cause no end of work. With the infrequency that I would use it on this PC, it would be a hog of x% disk space.

The only things that really could be causing this is software problems, a bad HD or RAM, or a corrupt driver. OP could try updating gfx or chipset drivers but neither is likely to be the cause; a reformat will install kosher drivers, and at the same time freshen the machine up and fix any software problems. RAM has already been eliminated and a bad HD will probably have other symptoms especially as event viewer has been checked.

All points to a reformat though OP could also try safemode and diag startup from Msconfig (remembering to go offline before doing so) to try and point it further.

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