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If the Seagate tool is reporting smart failure issues and you're having those kinds of crashes and failures the drive is dying or near dead anyways. Backup your data, get a new drive and be done with it
Edit: If you have another computer you could download Ultimate Boot CD and run it on the failing machine. Its got every hard drive tester known to man (or close to it) and it also has memory testers as well to narrow out that possibility |
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If the drive passed I'd def. take a very hard look at the memory. Even IF the memory passes I'd still consider it suspect. My old memory in my current desktop crashed like crazy in Windows but passed Vista's memory tester, Memtest 86, etc. but the second I swapped memory all problems went away.
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