ok here's my problem, everytime i set a breakpoint on softice it pops up every5 seconds and the only way that it can stop is if i restart my pc, my other problem is that if i open softice more than 3 times my pc freezes and i have to reatart my pc again so im not able to use softice.
I am using windows xp home edition.

Maybe breakpoint work often, maybe this bp used in app many times..
rtfm Ice has not bad user manual in PDF format, found it and read ..

BPX xxapixx (sets a breakpoint at either a memory address or an api call)
BC * (clear all breakpoints)
BL (list all breakpoints) <-- you need this
BD * (disable all breakpoints) <--you need this to
BE * (enable all breakpoints)

i still have a problem with softice, i was just using it and like the first ten minutes it was working fine but after that it froze, please help

Most likely its your video drivers.

Get another PC and load Win2K on it and use DS2.7 it seems to be the most reliable combination.

stop using softice. use ollydbg for user-mode debugging, or windbg for kernel-mode debugging.

hm???

i just downloaded ollydb and i have another question, how the heck do i set breakpoints on this prog??

The very FIRST thing you do is read the friggin manual (rtfm) and explore the menus and try to stop asking questions you failed to search for the answer for. There is a file with most editions titled ollydbg.hlp. Some versions 1.10c do not include it, but it is available on the net by searching for "ollydbg.hlp" (without the quotes).

You might also want to go here and read up on Olly:

http://ollydbg.win32asmcommunity.net/?

Regards,