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[Skerlnik]

So my PC has been running great for weeks, until yesterday. Vista started crashing for no reason. Haven't installed anything (or any windows updates) so I knew it had to be hardware. Thought it was my memory, so I ran memtest86 for hours and hours, and it all checked out ok. Even worse, due to the crashing my user profile corrupted, so Vista started loading a "temporary" profile - such fun! Spent hours recovering my settings... if anyone is experiencing this, I have some tips for ya!

Bad news... it was my CPU. I don't know what's going on, but I had to up the voltage from 1.38 to 1.40v to make it Orthos stable again. It's been perfectly stable at 1.38v for many weeks, so now I'm worried. I remember hearing about processors that continually need more & more voltage to be stable - a sign that they're on their way out. I hope this isn't true!

Any advice?

Regards,
Sker