Quote Originally Posted by SE_Saga View Post
I don't think it's viral or spyware related because, as I said, no program detected anything, and I've done fresh windows installs, after full formats.

Temps are around high forties when idle, but go into the fifties when the System Interrupts raise the 2 cores to high CPU usage.

I'll test the ram with memtest tomorrow and report back here. Thanks.

EDIT: By the way, what do you mean by "true" system interrupts? There are others that aren't true? I'm confused by that statement.
Sometimes thrown error messages aren't *the real deal* as the OS sometimes gets confused when the more nasty beasties occur.