I'm running XP home, SP2 on a 6 month old Mesh 3.4 GB with 1GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive.

Over the past few months my nearly new PC has started to constantly reboot after coming out of hibernation or stand-by and won't shut down - sometimes in the shut down process it brings back the wallpaper of the last user and won't do anything else.

I'm also finding that I can't open Windows explorer as it also hangs. Just to add to the problems over the past few weeks Eudora seems to stop during the initialisation process. I've tried recovering to before this started happening but it hasn't helped. Internet Explorer often won't start although Firefox will.

I also regularly get the blue screen of death with various error messages.

I've run spyware checkers, virus checkers, driver checkers. I've defragged and removed all items from the startup menu but haven't managed to cure it.

It looks like a complete reformat and reload of Windows unless anybody can come up with any ideas.

I've looked back through the restore points available and afaics there hasn't been anything loaded or updated over the problem period.

Over to you guys.

Cheers