Computer Freezes/BSOD woes

Lately my computer has been having a problem wherein it will completely randomly choose to completely freeze up and reset. I'll be doing anything, even if it isn't system intensive, and things will lock up for about 2 seconds before I'm then shown a Blue Screen of Death for about 3 seconds or so, and the whole system restarts. This started happening a few days ago, before this it was working great for about 2 weeks.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5.../DCOMError.jpg
I went to the Event Viewer, and I see that every time my system restarts, the problem appears to have been "DCOM". I honestly have no idea what that is though or what the description is trying to tell me.

A bit of background info, when this first happened I thought it was spyware of some sort. So I ran Ad-Aware and Spybot and they both came up with a few entries, including a keylogger which all got on my system somehow. I then ran AVG AntiVirus and it found a virus that I cant remember the name of. I researched that virus and found its symptoms are random resets and such. I though I was hunkie dorie when I removed every offense from all 3 programs, but the problem still persists. In the event viewer I also noticed that SideBySide adware. I've removed it also including all pertaining registry values.

My specs:
Windows XP SP2
AMD Athlon X2 4200
Nvidia Geforece 7900 GT
2 GB Corsair XMS RAM
Antec Smart Power 500W PSU

With those specs I don't believe my problem is hardware related.

How ya doing, buddy?

Actually yes, I have an Audigy 2 ZS. If I disable the background apps will my sound still work fine though?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well I would assume stuff like CTHELPER.exe and such are like my volume control panel, sound settings and balance, etc. Basically the little tray icon, so it's kinda conveniant having.

Either way, I don't think my sound card would be the reason why I'm BSOD'ing.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

90% of the time I get this BSOD

Quote:

STOP 0X0000008E
win32k.sys

But, the problem just occured, upon rebooting into windows, it immediately went down this time, which is rare, and gave me this BSOD

Quote:

Windows thinks theres a problem with the file tcpip.sys

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
STOP 0X00000050

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

No I haven't. Is there a version of memtest that will work withought booting into windows? Apparently it was either my graphics driver or card itself according to Microsoft. For kicks and grins I reported the error to Microsoft and it actually gave me a seemingly useful response talking about my graphics and driver. I figured I would just reinstall with the latest drivers then, but upon resetting after uninstalling the old drivers, Windows decided to not even boot up anymore. I tried eventually reinstalling Windows with 3 different variations of the Proffesional version I had laying around but for whatever reason none of them had a complete and working setup proccess, even though they did a month or so ago.

While I wait for that memtest or whatever, Im downloading a new copy of XP Pro on another computer.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Just a small update, I'm running memtest now from a bootable cd. The first time I ran a full test once, and it found something like 5000 errors. I then singled out my two modules, and told it to run only the test it previously found problems on (number 4) and there were no errors for either stick. Im running another full test now with both sticks... but it seemsjust a bit crazy that they're broken one moment and not the next.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I ran the test for about 2 hours and it once again found a problem finally on the 2nd pass, this time on Test 8 >_> So because I just don't like overclocking, since I came close to messing up my old proccessor upon trying and because I don't want to void an warranties, I submitted and RMA request for my Corsair XMS

(Yay lifetime warranties)

FELIPE NO