Thank you for all of the suggestions. I'll update the files you high-lighted and I certainly agree that the machine needs to be replaced as soon as I can afford it. In the mean time I pulled out a pair ram sticks and started the computer after it had plenty of time to cool - it crashed about 10...
I have an old (2006) water cooled dual Xeon workstation that was my bread and butter using XP-64bit until it retired to be my home computer. I "upgraded" to win7-home and was fine until recently when I upgraded to Win8-Pro in order to get the second cpu recognized. Everything seemed fine for...