Registry Corrupting

[jstrick1]

Hello:
In the past few day my computer has been very flakey. If I turn it off and do a cold boot, it will take two or three resets to finally boot to WindowsXP. Sometimes from a cold boot it tells me that the Registry is corrupted and the backup cannot be found/used. Right now it is sitting with a black screen saying that: Windows could not load because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
Also I get alot of random freezes which the BSOD usally points to ATI2DVAG.DLL which is the driver for my ATI AIW 7500 Radeon.

Help if you can!

My system: AMD Athlon T-Bird 1GHz not overclocked
EPoX 8k7g motherboard
2x 256MB Crucial RAM
ATI All In Wonder 7500 Radeon
Maxtor 120 GB Harddrive divided into 10 gig and 110 gig partitions
Hi-Val CD burner
NEC ND-1100 DVD Burner
Linksys NIC
Creative Soundblaster Audigy Platinum

[cloasters]

Welcome to AOA Forums, jstrick1!

It may be a Memory or heat related problem, or many other things, just to keep it simple. Not. By any chance, are you seeing higher temperatures(outside) now than earlier this summer?

[cloasters]

Is your machine overclocked? If so, slowing it down to "stock" might help. If it's not OC'd, perhaps wiping your C:\ volume and reinstalling XP from scratch may help. If the inside of the box has dust bunnies that greet each other by name, cleaning it can make for a ~2C decrease in temperature.