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Originally Posted by Renegade334
I once had a more or less similar problem with a previous computer, a long time ago, but that was caused by the CPU not having enough thermal paste and overheating (and thus being forcefully shut down). I don't think it's what you're suffering from, though.
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I would rule out hardware issues, because he mentioned that he's on a Win 7 partition now, presumably on the same computer.
So either driver problems that happen with XP but not 7 somehow, some sort of missing or tampered boot.ini and other things, or malware.