Just an update to this (I'm one of his friends who's been trying to help): We are now getting all sorts of wonderful varied BSODs <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> . Most seem to be STOP: 0x0A ones, but we did get a 0x50 (PAGE_FAULT_IN_UNPAGED_AREA) and another that I've forgotten.

Also, I don't think my friend mentioned this, but his HD had some bad sectors around the middle of the disk, and we simply paritioned the drive around that space. Could his drive be going out or something similar? He just ran a CHKDSK /F /R scan and it found nothing wrong. Should we try to do a surface scan? His drive is NTFS. Will this affect anything?

TIA

--Stryfe

P.S. Here's something he posted in the MS newsgroups which may give the situation a little more light:

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<strong>*** STOP: 0x0000000A (0x00000011,0x00000002,0x00000000,0x80432527)
*** Address 80432527 base at 80400000, DateStamp 3ad7ad60 - ntoskrnl.exe

Beginning dump of physical memory.
Physical memory dump complete.
Contact your sys admin or tech support group.</strong>

If it doesnt give this or something similar it will just freeze solid and I'll have to push the reset button on my case. I've downloaded the latest patches and upgrades, plus the latest drivers and all of the Windows updates and patches. Yet it still proceeds to do this during any multiplayer game. Can anybody help me with this problem?
Thanks in advance.

Patrick
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