If I may interject...
This sounds more like bad RAM to me.
In my experience RAM problems on a PC don't show themselves until you get a
hungry
program in there like POV-Ray, actually using it.
Have you tried running any other memory-hungry applications, like a game or
something?

"Chris Becker" <cmb### [at] ritedu> wrote in message
news:3ca08767$1@news.povray.org...
> My mistake. So what exactly is causing these lock ups and blue screens
that
> I'm experiencing? It doesn't always say floating point error. How do I
avoid
> or fix it?
>
> "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
> news:3ca032f2@news.povray.org...
> > In article <3c9f938b$1@news.povray.org> , "Chris Becker"
<cmb### [at] ritedu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > If it is a floating point stack overflow/underflow, it may be
something
> > > different in the Athlon XP handling of floating point numbers
> >
> > You are on the wrong track here:  The message is generated by the
function
> VM
> > and has nothing to do with the program stack.
> >
> >     Thorsten
> >
> > ____________________________________________________
> > Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
> > e-mail: tho### [at] trfde
> >
> > Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org
>
>

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