Hey, not sure if I am putting this thread in the right section of the forum, but I appear to be having a memory related problem, so I chose this spot. Always come to this forum when I am having computer troubles!
So this problem is getting really annoying now, and I can't pinpoint what it is. My computer will often freeze, often accompanied by my internal speaker beeping if I push any keys, also often the mouse will freeze, the audio will continue for a minute then stop, if you leave it, it will get the blue screen of death followed by a memory dump. Below is an image I took a few weeks ago.
Now here are more subtle details. It has only ever done it to me on the internet (never during a game, demanding games even), mainly during videos on youtube or other sites, also gifs. It does it on both internet explorer and firefox. I reformatted and the problem still exists, telling me it is hardware, just not sure what. I have tried removing one stick of ram at a time and used my computer, seemed to have never found a bad stick since it has still occurred all four times with all four sticks having a turn taken out. The problem always occurs unexpectedly, never like clockwork. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. It can happen 30 seconds into youtube, or several hours. Of course I have checked for maleware, virus, spyware, etc, no finds, seems to be hardware anyway. Also made sure adobe flash player was up to date. I have windows xp 32bit, latest service pack, and all windows updates applied. 4 gigs of ddr2 ram. Any help would be appreciated! I do not have money to just build another computer, have to stick with what I have, if I can find the problem hardware I can afford to replace it.
So this problem is getting really annoying now, and I can't pinpoint what it is. My computer will often freeze, often accompanied by my internal speaker beeping if I push any keys, also often the mouse will freeze, the audio will continue for a minute then stop, if you leave it, it will get the blue screen of death followed by a memory dump. Below is an image I took a few weeks ago.
Now here are more subtle details. It has only ever done it to me on the internet (never during a game, demanding games even), mainly during videos on youtube or other sites, also gifs. It does it on both internet explorer and firefox. I reformatted and the problem still exists, telling me it is hardware, just not sure what. I have tried removing one stick of ram at a time and used my computer, seemed to have never found a bad stick since it has still occurred all four times with all four sticks having a turn taken out. The problem always occurs unexpectedly, never like clockwork. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. It can happen 30 seconds into youtube, or several hours. Of course I have checked for maleware, virus, spyware, etc, no finds, seems to be hardware anyway. Also made sure adobe flash player was up to date. I have windows xp 32bit, latest service pack, and all windows updates applied. 4 gigs of ddr2 ram. Any help would be appreciated! I do not have money to just build another computer, have to stick with what I have, if I can find the problem hardware I can afford to replace it.
