7 Pro 32bit freezing with nothing running

I am having a problem with the system freezing up and an event code of 41 I do understand that this code is generated due to my reset or restart of the PC. I am able to use the reset button to restart the system and my lock ups happen even if there are no windows open. Like moving the mouse across the screen to launch IE or even the Start menu. I am running an Asus M4A78LT-M board with an AMD X3 Athlon Triple Core 2.9GB with stockfan and heatsink, 4GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333 (2x 2GB kit), WD 150GB SATA thatis the boot drive and a WD300GB that will be for games that is empty righ now, 600w peak RocketFish PSU, and don't laugh, a Sparkle 2GB NVIDIA GT430 PCI-E video card with a fresh install of 7 Pro 32bit. Memtest86+ ran for almost 6 hours and returned no errors. The board looks fine, no bad caps, the BIOS and all drivers are up to date. Event viewer shows the 41 event ID but that is from me restetting the system. I did have a couple minor errors and one critical error but this was after the freeze ups began and have not happened since. I thought it could be an overheat issue but CPUIDZ was showing that the proc and GPU were all running around 40*C but I still pulled the sides off the case for a test and put a small desk fan blowing right on the CPU and memory. Strange part is I was able to get about 2 hours of COD Black Ops before it locked up but had to install SP1 in safe mode so it wouldn't lock up and this was after the system was turned off for a day and it was the first and only thing I tired to run. SiSoft Sandra even locked it up as did NovaBench. Currently I have the RAM pulled out and an RMA to return back to Newegg to see if that will take care of it. If not I will be doing an RMA on the board. I am almost to the end of my rope with it.

All ideas and help are appreciated.

Thanks Dave76 for the edit and the tip. I will try my best to answer your questions as I am not home right now and will repost once I get there and load Core Temp.

But yes at idle even with the sides off and the desk fan blowing right on the systemboard it was running @ 40C. As for the interior of the system it is completely clean. I just swapped in the board, cpu, mem, and video card within the last week or so and had blown out the PSU and case just before installing everything to make sure I started with a clean slate.

When I get home I will fire it up and load Core Temp and post my results.

Thanks again for the help.

Ok so I get home. Reinstall the RAM and load Core Temp. Core was showing @ 24*C as Low and 26 high. I run NovaBench and the thing runs all the way through the tests with no issues and gave a high reading of 38*C.....I am at a total loss. I am wondering if it is because the room is about 78 or 80F and it is not dark and I dont have the light on and this was an O/H issue all along. I will wait a few hours and try again when I am in normal use of everything in here.

Ok so I have run the system last night and only had 1 lock up. Event Viewer showed that the NVIDIA Updater Daemon service had termionated unexpectedly. So following the instructions set the recovery of the service to restart. Everything seemed good. The Core Temp was a minumum of 25 with a high of 31 when I was transferring files from and external drive to my server.

Today is a totally different story. I got home and started to install COD Black Ops from my server. About 7 minutes in system froze. I reset and look at Event Viewer and lo and behold NVIDIA Service failed again. So this time I disabled it totally. Temps for the core were right around 30 - 31. Restarted the PC and tried again with my install. No dice system locked up after 2 to 3 minutes.

I did a clean install on the NVIDIA driver and this time did not allow the updater service to install. Long story short I have had to redo the settings in coretemp to display in the tool tray and all the while having to reset the system about 6 times. Now when I go into event viewer I have 1101 event log errors that it is dropping audits. According to the link I need to reduce the number of events logged but have no idea how to do this and the "resolution" does not tell me how either.

Could these Audit drops be causing thes lock ups?

Thanks Dave76. I do have the latest and greatest driver from NVIDIA on the PC but will run Guru3d and do a full reinstall on it again.

Was able to load COD BOps last night with no lockups. Only thing I had done was run disc check on the boot drive set to auto fix issues. Left PC on over night and when I got up this morning the system was running but nothing would wake it so another reset. When it came up I went into power settings and tried to do a custom config. I set it to High Performance and as soon as I set it to not turn display off it rebooted by itself. EV showed event id 1033 in the error message that the system recovered from a serios error and did I want to send to MS.

I will read on here how to post the mini dump and put it on here when I get home from work....IF the system did not lock up again and I lose the dump number by having to reset.

Here is the minidumps and perfomon report for the system. I was unable to get the Windows_NT6_BSOD_v3.03_jcgriff2_ app to work right. It would not create the new folder in My Documents even running it as Admin. So I copied the dmp files and zipped them with the perfmon report. I hope this will suffice. Please let me know anything else I can do. System locked up 3 times before I was able to post this.

Ok so far so good I just hope I don't jinx myself. I found that since I was running the BSOD app from my flash drive that was where the folder was being put so here it is with the Perfmon report and after I used Guru3d to uninstall the NVIDIA drivers and associated files and reload the updated drivers via fresh install minus the NVIDIA Update service.

Thanks again to Dave76 for your help.