the death

not a rant...i would just like to know what could be causing this screen...my ram? my mobo? my cpu? my copy of windows? or a combination of two or more?
 
BLUE SCREEN appears if you have installed a hardware that's not compatible with XP but you forced it to install. Also blue screen may appear if there are various files of windows missing.
but half the time its hardware related. check your hardware
 
patrickv said:
BLUE SCREEN appears if you have installed a hardware that's not compatible with XP but you forced it to install. Also blue screen may appear if there are various files of windows missing.
but half the time its hardware related. check your hardware
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Continuing on that, it's also very likely to happen if you overclocked, or for some reason a piece of hardware is running out of spec, which will cause the drivers to report errors, given you the blue screen.
 
When do you get the BSOD? What are you doing when it happens? Can you start up into Windows?
 
i can start up into windows and it can work for x amount of time but it periodically crashes and gives me that blue screen...next time i will write down what code it's actually giving me
 
Did you make a hardware change recently? Frequent BSoD sometimes means bad RAM. The BSoD should specify a certain sector of RAM that is causing the problem... write it down, if it is the same every time then it is the RAM... if it's different it may be a motherboard problem or a hardware conflict.
 
If it's still doing that, try to reinstall Windows, a lot of the time that I get BSOD's it's because Windows didn't install properly. (Like recently when I had to install Windows twice in a month... :P)
 
DCIScouts said:
If it's still doing that, try to reinstall Windows, a lot of the time that I get BSOD's it's because Windows didn't install properly. (Like recently when I had to install Windows twice in a month... :P)
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I wouldn't do a reinstall quite yet. I've had a similar problem, and I first tried to repair the install, and it worked for me. But if repairing doesn't solve anything. I would try to do a full reinstall.
 
repair the old windows huh? well i will have to try that, thanks for all the tips.

the error that i keep getting is machine_check_exception and i can't get all the numbers on the very bottom of the screen but i don't think that they change.
 
It's kind of interesting that i have to install SCSI drivers just to repair windows...i don't get that at all.

Oh, also, why would i get the message "this system has just recovered from a serious error" pop up about twice a week whenever i load into windows?
 
When you installed the new mobo, did you use the drivers off of the CD that came with it? If so, you might try checking online to see if there are updated drivers.
 
so now i get the BSOD and it dumps my physical memory onto my harddisk. this seems to happen when i multitask and it's a bit odd. think it might be the ram after all?
 
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