How hurting is this BSOD?

[Guest]

I just fried my ASUS SLI mainboard. No big deal there; bought myself a new one. Same chipset just not SLI. I almost was sure I'd have to reinstall XP, but waheyy.... It worked. Almost. Since I reinstalled one week earlier I was happy that it was somewhat working. Didn't have the time to reinstall...

But: I get the occasional BSOD; and it's a bad one. Half a second BS, sometimes not even characters (remember C64 when the characters got all mashed up?) and then a cold restart. I know that could mess my filesystem and I would lose data. I don't care much about that.

But my concern is that I have to work with this installation for some time longer because I have no time to set the XP up right now. The big question now; could I damage my hardware with these coldboots? (temps are fine so far)

 

[fishmahn]

No hardware damage because of constant reboots.

Right click My Computer, choose Properties, Advanced tab, Startup and recovery Settings button. There's a checkbox in there to halt automatic reboot on BSOD. That may give you info to debug it.

You could try just replacing the mobo drivers - maybe there's a different version of some driver your new mobo needs. If that doesn't work, maybe a repair install.

Mike.