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BSOD on boot, random restarts when booted
Computer originally came with Vista HP 32bit. Upgraded later on to 64bit, and recently upgraded to Windows 7, but as I wished to go back to 32 bit, I did the clean install from an upgrade disc method.
Since that time, I have had random restarts when doing mundane day-to-day tasks, from surfing the internet, to using MSN, to copying files to an external HDD. There never appears to be any correlation in what I'm doing at the time. Sometimes I'm not doing anything (I come back to my PC and find it has restarted/failed to restart [see next section])
Additionally, during the majority of boots (be it cold boot or from a restart) result in several failed attempts where a quick flash of a BSOD appears followed by a restart. The number of these occurences vary from boot to boot, and very occasionally I get success on the first try on a boot.
Windows recovery (the program it runs on failed boot) never finds anything, and I ran Memory Diagnostics which also didn't find anything.
I'm considering doing another clean install, but before I do I'm bringing the situation to your very capable hands, as if this is a hardware issue, I don't want to end up with the same situation again on a clean system. As requested I've attached the contents of the minidump folder.