Secks

I've recently purchased and built a new rig, but I'm having some problems with random restarts and the infamous BSoD (Blue screen of death, which is a mystery to me as the CPU is running at stock settings and I'm yet to even think about dabbling with overclocking yet), to which I'm being told is due to some driver problems on the Graphics card. For the most part my new comp is working fine, it plays Counter Strike like a dream and is yet to give me any problems on any of Valves applications (CS, Half Life 2 both run fine), however when I finnally got round to installing World Of Warcraft last night, my problems with random restarts began. After installing world of warcraft (the install went relatively smoothly with some weird errors in reading the CD, and telling me it wanted Disk 3, when I was being prompted to insert disk 4, but in the end World of Warcraft was installed), then when it came to the actual patching you need to do before the game, things began to ugly. Whenever I attempt to download the patch it downloads, perhaps about 5% maybe less then the Computer flashes to the BSoD and a restart occurs, I then run an error report and it tells me that the Graphics card drivers something to do with "thread loss", which I must say seem to have been behaving quite badly so for, hence I'm here to ask for any kindly person to lend me some assistance.

The Comps specs are:
AMD 64 3800 CPU

DFI Lanparty Ultra-D Motherboard

Connect3D x850xt PE PCI-E Graphics Card

Soundblaster Audigy 7.1 Sound Card

2 Gigs (4x512Mb Sticks) of Corsair Twin X PC3200C2PT RAM

Western Digital 10,000 RPM 74 Gig Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive

500 Watt Ultra X-connect PSU

There Shouldn't be any compatability issues here I don't think, as far I'm yet to install SP2, but I do have SP1, if service pack 2 dosn't fix this problem then my option is to search for some alternative drivers for the Graphics card, so I'm here to ask where I would start with such an endeavor, and if anyone has had similar problems, could they tell me how they resolved them ? I would much appreciate absolutely any assistance you can offer to me, and many tanks in advance to anyone that does.

/edit. Forgot to mention x850xt PE is a PCI-E model.

Resistor

Which driver of Catalyst or Omega you are using?

Secks

Im using the drivers supplied with the card, the Catalyst ones. I just installed service pack2, and while it fixed my original problem, my sound has died and wont work on any applications except windows (for instance I get the windows jingle when I switch it on, and prompts from windows make noise, MSN, DoD, CS, and any other application have no sound). Im using the stock supplied drivers for the sound card also.

deadite66

i had similar reboots with my sapphire x850xt mostly gone away since i updated to 5.3 cats and dumped using kerio firewall (2.1.4).

Secks

For the most part a Reformatt of the HDD and a fresh copy of Windows XP seem to have fixed things for the most part, no random restarts yet, and most promising of all World of Warcraft installed and downloaded the patches without a single mishap, now I'm very much so enjoying playing it on max settings. I'm yet to install Steam though and any mods for Half Life yet so theres still plenty of oppurtunity for things to go crazy yet XD.