BSOD galore!!! 1 + month....

[Forgetful_duck]

Ok i just formatted, AGAIN

Twice in less then a month now.

Downloading service pack two as i type this.

I'm so sure this is a hardware problem because.
The VERY FIRST boot into windows after a FRESH install of XP...
I get to the plan beautiful clean desktop... at super low resolution, no drivers, no other software installed but windows XP pro SP1 just by itself...

And BAM STOP ERROR. BSOD.

EDIT: God i hate this motherboard, or HDD...

Installign service pack 2, and it BSOD'ed right int he middle.

Reinstallign it again.

machine_check_exception, and PC rebooted before i had time to read further.
And i had my WD 36GB Raptor plugged in only at that point.

 

[Forgetful_duck]

Hey guys, im gettign a BSOD that leaves no mini dumps and PC still restarts itself, even though ive disbaled the auto reboot on stop errors.

Its called a machine_check_exception

What do they mean? and im getting error codes startign with 0000009C