Constant Program crashing

[MrSh@vid]

Hey,

Sorry if this seems a bit rushed i keep crashing while writing this and so it's shorter than it would be (I'm currently "raging" at my pc so don't have it in me to write a 3 page document.

Right well for the past 2 days all the programs i open have been crashing every 5 seconds to 10minutes If i am lucky, these programs include:

Warcraft 3
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Battlefield 2/PR

etc.

I've also had Desktop Window Manager stop working , not sure what it is but it seems relevant.
Error message for that is:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Dwm.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Application Timestamp: 47918c97
Fault Module Name: nvd3dum.dll
Fault Module Version: 8.16.11.9062
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a891f75
Exception Code: c000001d
Exception Offset: 002dbf37
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.2
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

In the 1-2 years I've had my PC the only thing I've done is add an additional 1GB of memory to to it several months ago, not sure if its relevant put 2 pins that hold the side panel on fell out the other day and I've yet to find them and place them back in but its still held in place by some "slotty bits" not sure if thats relevant.
My system specs:

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz, 2400 MHz
3070MB of DDR Ram
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512mb
Windows Vista 32bit Home Premium.

Just gotten the good old BSOD of 6 hours of trying to sort this out I decided to try and run the Recovery CD/Revert to factory settings what not to see if i could just wipe my PC and start over but Low and Behold that disc dosn't want to work-


BSOD Error:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.2
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 1000008e
BCP1: C0000005
BCP2: 954D31D4
BCP3: 99BCAC68
BCP4: 00000000
OS Version: 6_0_6001
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini092009-01.dmp
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-31839-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\WERD42F. tmp.version.txt

Any other information required please tell me and apologies for the hasteness of the post.

[Tofurkeymeister]

Maybe its ram related. Try running one stick at a time to see if it fixes it. If you find a bad stick, you can throw it out.

Alternatively, and more precisely:
Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool