I need some advice on choosing the best OS for my computer. Tonight a friend is coming over and will help me completely reinstall my C partition with the operating system.

I have an Athlon 2600++ CPU, a somewhat old GeForce MX4 graphics card, one Gig Ram, 160 gig HD.

On C partition is the Windows OS (presently Windows XP professional) and too many other proggies, on D is Poser and Vue and on E are scene files, downloads and digicam pics and films.

Now here's my problem. Last summer I completely reinstalled windows after a virus had infested my system. The system was clean after that. In August my machine started crashing on moderately complex Vue renders. It also kept crashing when the Vue renders became most simple. Virus scans yielded no results. Next Poser started crashing while rendering. The next step was that Poser crashed already when posing stuff.

Since we couldn't find a virus we evacuated the valuable stuff from C, flattened the partition and reinstalled Windows XP.

Everything was fine until late march when the whole thing started anew.

Does anybody have a clue what's going on? I didn't have that with Windows 98 or Windows 2000.

Should I change my OS? Does XP have a problem with 1 gig Ram?

The most funny thing is that I can play games including Half Live 2 without anything ever crashing. Odd, innit?

P6 is due to arrive in the mail any day and I can't do squat... Grrrrrrr...

Please help!

LooKoo

Message edited on: 04/01/2005 04:24