Going by the limited info you've provided, I'd say after two reinstalls your problem would most likely be directed at your hardware. RAM is usually a likely culprit in these situations. Best way to check it is (and im hoping you've got at least two sticks of ram) is to remove one stick, test for stability, then shut down, put it back and remove the other and test again. If one test comes up trumps, it's off to the hardware retailer to replace the dogey stick.

presumably this is XP or 2K? this might well be RAM, but both os' can be finnicky about installing at all if there's bad memory. While I must admit I've never seen this message before, the string of numbers you're saying comes afterwards is usually a sign that the data components or registry is being knackered. This might be simply bad data; did you restore your stuff after the re-installs? if so then something you are restoring is fookin' up your installation. If not, then you might have a bad hard drive with corruption in the front end clusters.

then again, I might be completely wrong.

@matt you say you found the error on computer.net forums bot no easy fix,
what info did it give you about the error ? and have you run a memtest proggy
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Edited by - [STEEL on 4/6/2004 7:24:16 AM

I would have to agree with my esteemed colleagues; possibly a RAM issue, but it also may be a registry issue. One other possibility; if the HDD is going down hill, it can corrupt the registry, thus causing problems. Have you scanned for bad sectors?