ok just finished running every diagnostic tool I can find on hiren boot CD (damn that took long). RAM and CPU are ok. found some error on disks but was quickly fixed. core still crashes.
Following up from knightdk how much memory do you have on the system? Is this Windows XP Professional or not? A guess is that you are running a 32 bit version of Windows XP and you may just be running out of memory.
professional 32bit, yes. if by memory you mean RAM, my RAM is 2GB and I've tried terminating every unneeded processes before starting core.
I'll try installing older versions and see if they works.
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version 0.11.1 works. I'll just use this until I find a solution.