XP Crashing

[Speedwa]

Hey guys and girls,
I'm hoping someone out there can help me with a problem I am having with my computer. I'm running XP Professional with the associated service packs.

I purchased a Sony DVD burner some months ago and added same to my computer. In a nutshell my computer consists of a Pentium 2.4, ASUS motherboard, 512m of Ram with the standard peripherals.

In the last couple of months, I continually suffer a BSOD (blue screen of death) and the computer crashes and then starts up again. A message comes up which reads, "Windows has recovered from a serious error" and the message sets out some computer language describing the error.

Firstly, could this be a software or hardware error occuring with my computer? It mainly happens during DVD burning BUT it also happens during word processing and sometimes during internet use. I'm buggered if I can work it out. No one seems to know too much about BSOD's and their causes.

This problem is driving me crazy. Before this problem reared its ugly head, I did not have any troubles with my system.

Any suggestions would be very welcome.

Dave
Sydney, Australia​

 

[weboneando]

Please post a complete description of your system and if posible the text that appears in the BSOD, with the info that you provided it´s very hard to try to isolate a problem.

 

[scarecrow]

Control panel/system/advanced tab/startup and recovery/settings/ change there the debug info from small dump to complete memory dump (the file might get VERY big!). Then after your next crash zip the minidump file (this would be at your primary partition root directory) and pass it here. You can also pass your previous "small" minidump file now, although it might not have enough information about the problem.

 

[Speedwa]

Control panel/system/advanced tab/startup and recovery/settings/ change there the debug info from small dump to complete memory dump (the file might get VERY big!). Then after your next crash zip the minidump file (this would be at your primary partition root directory) and pass it here. You can also pass your previous "small" minidump file now, although it might not have enough information about the problem.

Scarecrow, attached is the zipped minidump file. I hope you know how to open and read it.

Dave

 

[john baxter]

minidump aaagh

hi speedwa, i think i emailed you a short time ago anyways if you did get my e mail then what i said might be the solution didnt work for me,after i reinstalled xp everything was fine then the damn thing crashed bsod.........
*%$$£!

anyway try going here

www.ntfs.org

this a very good site and there are some interesting things about the minidump thing if you do a search , do you have a nvidia graphics card , might be the drivers , try rolling back the driver to see if this cures the problem

hope this helps you out

john b