Since sunday I've been suffering from endless BSODs for no apparent reason. Was just watching a youtube vid when the system froze flashed up a blue screen for about 1 millisecond and restarted. After that it wouldn't restart again so after trying many things I resorted to reinstalling XP. That helped for a bit but then the same thing happened again. I then tried formatting the drive in case I'd picked up a virus or something but that wouldn't work so tried using DBAN to blitz the drive but even that wouldn't even start, most likely due to bad sectors on the drive apparently. I then had to resort to booting up my old PC and decided to order a new HD (Samsung Spinpoint F1 750Gb) which I'd wanted for ages anyway and thought this was as good a time as any to get one. Plugged that in and now I get a BSOD as soon as setup finishes formatting the drive with the message "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" and mentions the "CLASSPNP.SYS" file as well. Have checked through the BIOS but can't find anything different to how it was for the 5 or so months the systems been running without problems.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be happening? What's really thrown me is how randomly it all started as I hadn't installed any new hardware or software for at least a week before this started. And now I can't even install an OS on the system!
Full system spec is:
Asus P5E MB
Q6600 (@ stock speed atm with all the errors though was at 3.43Ghz before with no problems for at least 5mths.)
2GB 1066Mhz RAM
MSI 8800GT pre-Overclocked
1x Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB (Boot Drive)
1x Hitachi 250GB (Storage Drive)
HP DVD-RW