I formatted/repartitioned just about every time I installed. It doesn't seem like a RAM problem, but if it were then I should be able to test that simply by using one stick at a time in 32-bit Win 7. Might do that, even though the Windows memory test returned absolutely no errors after two...
Tried USB with same result. Also tried Vista x64 with very similar results. At this point I am assuming that at least one of the four cores of my Q6600 has one or more bad registers (<-- I think that's what they are called) on the 32+ side. If anyone has any other ideas please let me know...
Recently a power surge did something funny to my computer. Everything pointed to drive corruption, so I bought a 1TB drive to replace my 2x160GB RAID 0 array. Now I can install the 32-bit version with seemingly no problems but not the 64-bit. I usually get a BSOD but sometimes I get an error...