Word 2003 Crashes

[Mindspenk]

Ok, I have scoured the internet trying to find a cure for my ailing word, to
no avail. My Word crashes on me whenever I am working in it. It isn't
something I can time, and it is as random is it gets. Earlier today I was
working for 2 minutes and it crashed. I rebooted fixed a few files where the
temp file created didn't actually clear, and after that I worked for nearly
and hour on the same file saved it and went to open another file and it
crashed again. When I say crash, it locks up the whole system to where I have
to cycle the power and reboot. It hasn't happened in any other programs, just
Word 2003.
I have just recently put in a new hard drive, and I put more ram in my
computer. I did a fresh install of everything, and this started happening. I
tried to repair word, repair windows, I even reformatted and reinstalled
again for good measures, and this is still happening.

Here are my computers specs and some programs I have running. I don't know
if any of this helps, but since I don't know what has been crashing my system
I will give you this-->
Compaq Presario r3065us
P4 3.06GHZ
1.25 megs ram
Windows XP SP2
ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
MS Office 2003
Norton Antivirus 2005
Giant AntiSpyware
Adobe Creative Suites CS

I have tried rolling back my ATI drivers to a previous driver that worked,
but that didn't work. My refresh rate is within the requred range. I am a
bit frustrated, and a little overwhelmed, any help would be greatly
appreciated..

 

[DL]

I seem to recall a post suggesting Word was v.memory intensive, that being
the case you might want to download and run memtest http://www.memtest.org/
http://www.dependencywalker.com/ may also assist, if the cause is a
module/dll
I assume you've also checked 'events'
Also I note you say it happened after a fresh install on a new hd?
That being the case you may want to download a checking utility from your hd
manu.web site.