That is one of the link I had seen when doing my research.

Since reimaging my machine Saturday morning, no crashes so far. Looking
more and more like a software/OS issue.

"Doug G." wrote in message
.. .
In article ,
says...
Update - still got the infinite loop bug on July 4th. I had my buddy
here
with his 2 college age sons. And here's the funny thing - 4 of us in
the
room when it happened. Of the 4, 3 (including me) have the problem.
All of
us run XP. Of the 3 that have the infinite loop problem, 2 have an ATI
Radeon and one has an NVidia GeForce 4. After all the cases I've seen
all
around the Internet, it appears that lots of people are experiencing
this
issue and no vendors are addressing it. I've seen the petition, but I'm
not
going to submit my email address - I get enough SPAM as it is. Why
hasn't
the computer press picked up on this?

I think that pretty much rules out hardware issues. But to be sure, I
bit
the bullet and reimaged my machine with an image from 5/30/03. I do
full
backups by using Ghost to image the hard drive. By reimaging I am
putting
the machine back into a previous software state. If I don't see the bug
again, I know it's software/drivers.

Check out this article http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=64

It is four pages long, and applies to all chip sets, not just VIA.

Doug