The thing is, i do have a slave drive that has been damaged(unreadable) and it's still plugged in to my computer. Well, i'll just try my luck then.
Well, unplugging that drive sounds like a good idea in any case
Other observations:
You're running XP SP2.
- There are a few PAGE_FAULT bugs in SP2 that MS didn't release as fixes until they were built into SP3
- You may want to create a ghost image backup of current hard drive so you can always fallback then install SP3 and see how things behave
Mobo and BIOS
- Asus lists several variations to the P5B so do you know exactly which one (or is it simply the P5B?)
- Point being to double check your BIOS version even tho it appears to be a recent release. But need to be exactly right on version of the Asus P5B mobo to do that so i didn't try looking at that any further
- Is also worth your double checking BIOS settings as well to see if anything jumps out
Pagefile Info
This shouldn't be related to problem but just from maintenance view
=> Is about 1.3GB used out of 1.6GB Pagefile
=> It is a large file which makes me ask: how was your pagefile size defined?
=> It's best to allocate it all up front (setting pagefile min=max) to minimize fragmenting your pagefile as Windows needs to resize it. Note that normal defrag programs don't touch the pagefile. In fact, they
can't touch the pagefile since it is in use when normal defragers are running.
=> Take a look
here to both see how fragmented it is as well as defragging it