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I did forget to mention... A couple of times that it did crash outside the game it sounded like the fans on my computer (not sure which ones) were slowly slowing down and then it would just reboot the system by itself. Running just FFXI right now and so far so good for the last hour or so...
I don't remember having any problems at all when I was CFX 2-4890's with FFXI, but newer technology on a still old and poorly programmed game. Although, I was using the latest build of the 4.x.x.x build of Skype back then (4.2.0.187, I think?) and now I'm using the latest Beta build of Skype...
Are you overclocking? I've experienced this random reboot at the "Starting Windows" as well. This usually happens if a piece of hardware was swapped out and somehow it resets the CMOS? I don't know 100% sure, but check you CPU/DRAM settings and make sure they're what you normally have them set...
I disabled it just before I left the house this morning per your suggestion. I'll try the game out with Skype running and reply back with good/bad news updates. Thanks for the idea; I didn't even think about it and I was at that window a hundred times trying to get it to create a dump file, but...
My desktop computer is currently getting "Critical 41 (63)" errors in the Event Viewer. It has to be something with Final Fantasy XI as everything else seems to be fine with it. Ran Prime95 x64 for a few hours on it, no issues. MemTest86+ for about 12 hours, no issue. Can run benchmark tests...