Halp!

[kaliha]

Our desktop computer keeps spewing out this error message when it does a blue screen of death. Does anyone know what it means and how I can fix it before His Lordship gets home and discovers that I've somehow managed to crap up his £800 computer.

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[staceyuk.livejournal.com]

What O/S are you using? That seems like the standard blue screen of death message I used to get with XP. Whare are you doing when the message occurs?

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

Yes it's XP.

At the time this happened I was deleting old video files I didn't need anymore.

But it's also done it when I've been using FF to surf the internet, opening a 36kb Word file and inputting information onto a 5kb excel file.

If it was doing it because I was playing Fallout or something I'd understand it. It's also broken Nod 32, when I tried to scan with it it did that blue screen too.

[staceyuk.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. Have you tried system restore?

Have you a flash drive you can put this on: http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/clamwin_portable?

It's a portable app. It doesn't install itself on the comp.

[staceyuk.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. Have you tried system restore?

Have you a flash drive you can put this on: http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/clamwin_portable?

It's a portable app. It doesn't install itself on the comp.

[khallandra.livejournal.com]

You could also try a 'MemTest' you burn the program to floppy disk or CD and run it before start time and it checks to see if your memory is faulty. Especially if it just does it randomly (blue screen+reboot itself).
Don't use windows any more so I don't have a link sorry :(

[taperoo2k.livejournal.com]

Going by the error codes you could have faulty RAM, bad drivers or a software problem.
XP is a bit of a cronk when it comes to memory testing, so you either have to use something like memtest or one of microsofts tools - http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

Read all instructions, memory tests are not for the faint of heart and shouldn't be done too often.

If you have an Nvidia graphics card, then update the drivers to the latest ones. I've had nothing but trouble using Nvidia hardware with Vista this year all because Nvidia can't write drivers for vista very well. I have suffered BSOD's a plenty. But the latest drivers are thankfully stable at the moment. Roll on windows 7 i say.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking it's a bad RAM chip.

[sal101010.livejournal.com]

How are the computer woes? I showed your photo to Andrew and he said that basically it could be anything - which is not really much help! I hope you've found a fix.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

I'm just doing an update post at the moment. Not good to be honest.