Originally Posted by SRT SIX
The way you describe things, it does not sound like a virus. First thing I would ask is the age of your house. If it is 40 years or more older then it could be electrical. Even if it is newer, you may have a troublesome socket. It could even be your neighborhood.
Do you get the blue screen at the same time it happens? I am an Application Engineer at Intel and formerly had my own computer company. I have been in the industry for more than 25 years. I used to see problems like yours often. When we provided a line conditioner to the outlet, the problems went away over 90% of the time. A line conditioner is not a power strip or surge protector, rather a device that puts out a clean 110 stream. I have seen sockets get down to 70 volts and all the way up to 140. These are not good things for electronic devices.
Wow Karl, now I know who to call next time I have compatibility issues with the MFSYS25, LOL j/k. Do you know Jared Leavitt? A few months ago we worked on a campaign with Jared and his counterpart at microsoft about the modular server (which is such a great product).