Windows XP Crashing - Help Please

[neo_0147]

Please can you help me, I am in desperate need of your superior help
my computer: Chaintech APOGEE m/b, Chaintech Geforce 4 Ti4600, creative soundblaster audigy, IBM 120Gb 7200rpm Hard disk, AMD Athlon XP 2200+ CPU, 256Mb DDR PC2700 RAM (Major)

My computer started to crash now and again (maybe twice a week), then its got worse and worse, everything freezing causing me to turn off the computer manually. At boot up the error message saying 'The computer has recovered from a serious error) then I can send or not send the information. It says the files associated with it are C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini011203-01.dmp and

C:\DOCUME~1\Chris\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER1.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml whenever I try to put this into search on my hard drive it says I cannot access it. So i formatted and put win xp back on, then as i was installing drivers it crashed again! It is gettin very severe now as it is crashing as soon as I log on and I cannot do anything. I can still move the mouse but when I try to close Internet Explorer, it half does and half doesnt. Eventually it just totally freezes and I cant move the mouse or anything. I have checked HDD, sound card, RAm and it doesnt seem to be them as it still crashes with new RAM, no soundcard.

Please help, perhaps a hardware failure, I'm not sure.

Thanks for any help.

[Lan]

Firstly if there's no worthwhile data on the disk you might like to run DFT on it, it is an IBM hard disk afterall..

Does the system crash/reboot if you just boot from a DOS disk?

Secondly what PSU do you have?

Third is the system overclocked at all?