I've heard that the Agobot worm can do stuff like THIS!

I was able to get the scan done you suggested:

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Lan Plus KM400-8235
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.07 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: KM400-8235
Bus Clock: 166 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 08/05/2003
Drives Memory Modules c,d
120.06 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
111.86 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

LITE-ON COMBO LTC-48161H [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

SAMSUNG SP1203N [Hard drive] (120.06 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 0731J1FWA01276, rev TL100-23, SMART Status: Healthy 480 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 512 MB
Slot 'A1' is Empty
Slot 'A2' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (on drive 0) 120.06 GB 111.86 GB free

Network Drives
None detected

Have you seen this:

Win XP Recovery

Is this the disk you have?

If so read this & all options & I will do the same.

I see that there is also a recovery partition on your hard drive.

Again this will reinstall XP meaning it will delete all other data on the drive.

If you need to get stuff off the drive consider this first.

Yes, I read it. It's starting to look like reinstalling windows is my only option.
I'm still concerned about the Agobot worm. That's why I was considering replacing the hard drive. Clicking "fix" on 3 items in Hijack This seems to easy to be rid of it!

Running the recovery:

All your existing data will be lost.

That includes worms

fwiw:

Backdoor.Agobot.05.c [KAV

I ran the recovery disk, reinstalled windows, reinstalled AOL, just had another "restart" what the hell!!!???

I would start thinking about the hardware.

You will find Samsung Diagnostics here:

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287

You will see 2 tools relavent to your situation:

Samsung Disk Manager 10.42 (12.30.2003)
Some old BIOSs have a capacity barrier and does not recognize the high capacity HDD. In that case, the Disk Manager will solve the capacity barrier.

&

SHDIAG (Diagnostic for Old Drives) v1.25
This program is used to diagnose the disk when the SAMSUNG hard disk is suspected to have failures. It is strongly recommended to back up your data before using this program!

As to your RAM you can try this:

Windows Memory Diagnostic

Also you can try using your RAM in a different slot.

As to checking your drive & cpu temps you can use this program & look under: Computer: Sensor

http://www.lavalys.com/products/over...ng=en&pageid=1

Are all your fans working?

If the OS is not the problem then most likely it is heat from some component.

Was that the original Hard Drive on the machine?

How is it partitioned?

You can see this by right clicking My Computer then click Manage then Disk Management.

I think it's your power supply. My computer would restart spontaneously and even turn itself on after I shut it off before I replaced mine. I got a cheap $50 power supply from newegg.com as a replacement (500w)

your problem is ram, you have bad ram.