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Thanks for your reply! To my knowledge, the only driver that needed updating as of a few weeks ago was for ATI Catalyst, which has been taken care of. I ran verifier.exe several times after doing so and was not able to crash the machine, even after running it for about 36 hours straight. So I'm not sure if it is driver related, unless there are other tests I can run to check for this.
I also ran several passes of Memtest86+ a few weeks ago without any errors. I did not swap out memory or change slots though, since the two cards never showed any errors in the slots they are presently set in.
I am with you 100% about the user leaving their system running for so long at a time. This is something I have mentioned to her several times, although, I have done so in reference to general performance of the PC, not as a means to reduce BSOD. The 2+ weeks of runtime means that the computer has not been turned off or restarted since I rebooted from Safe mode a few weeks ago to turn verifier.exe off. I will stress the importance of occasionally restarting your PC (I reboot my desktop before I leave work each day). I can see how running the PC for weeks at a time might help create the exception cx05 that crashed the system on 3/28. However, it crashed on 3/29 as well after running for only a day.
Are there any other methods in which I can test for a faulty driver? If this is a problem driver, verifier.exe has not been able to root it out.
Thanks!