Crashing despite reformat.

Okay, I'll try to explain this as best I can.

Windows 7 runs flawlessly, everything's fine, except for one thing.

These BSOD's and crashes are something I can recreate, and it's really annoying knowing what it is and what does it but not knowing how to fix it.

Anyways

E8500, GA-EP45-DS3L, 4gb OCZ Reaper, Nvidia 9800gtx

I can go into sleep mode fine, but when I wake my computer up, my computer will inevitably crash. It could take up to 5 minutes, but my computer will lock up and possibly blue screen.

Every time I BSOD'd, it came up with NTOSKRNL.EXE.
These would ONLY happen after i wake the computer from sleep mode.

I've tried reformatting, since several sites have pointed that this is a driver issue, but that did not work. I don't BSOD now, but the screen just freezes.

I've also tried testing my memory using MEMTEST86, and several passes show no errors. I am completely stumped. Help!

Make sure your BIOS and hardware drivers (video, NIC, chipset...) are all up to date.

Crashes as a result of power state transitions are almost invariably caused by problems in either of those two categories.

Thanks for the quick reply, I'll try it ASAP

Hey, thanks! Flashing my BIOS worked!