"Windows has recovered from a critical device failure." UGH!

I get this message a lot, and as you all probably know, it happens unexpectedly, in the middle of the most random activities. I can't think of a single mundane situation on my PC that this crash hasn't reared its ugly head. I can be web surfing, using Outlook, scrolling through a WinAmp playlist, playing a game, opening a document, exploring the file system, setting system settings....anything....but it certainly happens a lot more often when I'm playing games.
I'm beginning to find a small pattern though: this seems to happen much more often if I've just booted up my machine.
Is anyone else noticing that these crashes happen more often shortly after powering on the machine, before the various chips on the motherboard or video card get a chance to "warm up?" I believe this sort of issue is called a "cold-solder" problem, in which silicon-based systems tend to exhibit different behaviors between their cold and hot states.
I tend to lock-up in games only if I launch them soon after powering on my PC. If the PC has been on for an hour or so (and has in essence "burned in" for the night) I have very few problems. The majority of my crashes are in applications that I mess with a lot right after booting up.
Does anyone else witness this sort of behavior from their Radeon 9700 Pro or GNB MAX (and similar) motherboards?
Thanks.
Woland
By the way, I have tried a million different things and none seem to work.
I've replaced the 9700 Pro with a new card.
I've tried with various sound cards and no sound card.
I've got the latest drivers, updates, etc. for Windows XP.
I've tried the base XP drivers for the Radeon 9700.
I've tried the 3.1 and 3.2 Catalyst drivers.
I've updated my BIOS.
I've disabled Hyper-Threading.
I've set AGP aperture to 64.
I've set AGP override to 2X and No Override.
I've set my BIOS to all failsafe settings.
I've reformatted and re-installed Windows XP.
I've tried the latest drivers for various other pieces of hardware.
I've got the latest motherboard drivers.
I've tried various desktop resolutions and bit-depths and refresh rates.
I've upgraded the power supply to 430 Watts.
I've disabled my USB controllers.
I've convinced ATI to give me beta drivers (essentially Catalyst 3.3).
Etc.
Etc.
Etc.
Here's my system:
Windows XP (all the latest updates)
3.06 GHz Intel Pentium 4 Hyper-Threading CPU
MSI GNB MAX FISR (M6565) motherboard (8X AGP, S-ATA, Bluetooth, GBit LAN, etc.) - latest BIOS
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (many flavors of drivers, now using some beta drivers)
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum (with internal break-out box) - up to date drivers
2x 512MB Kingston HyperX Dual Channel DDR Memory SIMMs
Western Digital Special Edition Caviar 200GB IDE Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar 80GB IDE Hard Drive
Sony DRU-500A DVD-RW / DVD+RW Drive
USB 2.0 Controller Enabled (and Disabled)
IEEE1394 Firewire Controller Disabled
Both Onboard IDE Controllers Enabled
Serial ATA Controller Disabled
Floppy Drive Controller Disabled
Parallel and Serial Ports Disabled
Using USB mouse and PS/2 keyboard
ViewSonic GS970 19" monitor
Onboard 10/100/1000 MBit LAN Enabled
Onboard Audio Disabled
Bluetooth Controller Disabled

Probably the Radeon vs E7205 problem.
Try the latest ATI drivers and if that won't solve it try setting the bios to AGP x4 override.

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Blue screen error "windows has recovered from a unexpected shutdown"

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I am using laptop & everyday it will unexpectedly shutdown and shows Blue screen error "windows has recovered from a unexpected shutdown"...Pls help me to resolve this issue.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: d1
BCP1: 00000030
BCP2: 00000002
BCP3: 00000000
BCP4: 8F2DA8A5
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Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1
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Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
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Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.3.9600.17029 AMD64
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Loading Dump File [C:\Users\Ken\Desktop\060714-31793-01.dmp]
Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and stack trace are available
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Response Time (ms) Location
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Symbol search path is: SRV*H:\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
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Product: WinNt, suite: TerminalServer SingleUserTS
Built by: 7601.18113.amd64fre.win7sp1_gdr.130318-1533
Machine Name:
Kernel base = 0xfffff800`03a4c000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0xfffff800`03c8f670
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Loading Kernel Symbols
Loading User Symbols
Loading unloaded module list
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BugCheck C4, {f6, 17c, fffffa8005acab30, fffff8800f327295}
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Followup: MachineOwner
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* Bugcheck Analysis *
DRIVER_VERIFIER_DETECTED_VIOLATION (c4)
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CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1
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It can take a day or even two sometimes before the transaction is processed. Paypal is then the first to inform you by email and later it is Apple. I have a credit card in my Paypal account which means that I don't have to put money into Paypal.
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E-Mail Browse Window Has Wrong From Information

I have recently started having a problem with the message browser window in the latest version of Mail (Tiger installed, with updates through 10.4.5) where the FROM column does not accurately reflect the name of the sender on multiple messages. When I started this inquiry my inbox reflected multiple messsages FROM Ester Ferreira. (Not all of the messages, just messages that had no address book entry WHEN THEY ARRIVED.) However, when I highlight each of these messages the text of the messages themselves indicate that none is from Ester Ferreira. Indeed, a search for Ferreira using the Mail search tool shows no messages EVER from or to Ester Ferreira. However, the incorrect name is not ALWAYS Ester Ferreira. Earlier today the messages were from WorldWinner and before that from some other name having no connection with me nor my computer (none of the names so far has shown up in my Address Book nor even in a Spotlight search of my hard disk). A moment ago, all the messages appeared to be FROM Donut Offer. NOW they all appear to be from A New Years Gift For You.
There seems to be some relationship between me switching to look into different mailboxes and the switching of the names appearing the FROM area.
I have tried running disk utility to fix permissions and repair the disk (there are always erroneous permissions, especially related to Widgets, and the disk never needs repair). I have also tried rebuilding my mailbox and just quitting and restarting Mail. While I thought fixing permissions was having a positive effect, I now believe that was just coincidental, as the problem quickly resurfaced after permissions have been fixed when that helped, and recently fixing permissions has not helped at all.
G5 Dual 2 and PowerbookG4 1.33 GHz 17 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Click "Options" (top-right of Mail web page), then "More Options".
Select "Accounts" from the menu on the left and then the relevant account from the column in the middle. Mine's called "BT Yahoo!". In the right-hand pane you should now be able to change both the Reply-To and the 'From' name.

"Windows has recovered from a critical device failure." UGH!

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