dumping physical memory blue screen in XP

[impostal22]

again, with my sister's computer. last computer i had this happen on, the hard drive got erased. this has happened twice on my sister's computer, and the hd is still intact it seems. but i don't like that it starts doing this randomly. anyone know what causes it and how to fix it?

[Thordic]

Were you the same one who was having problems with XP on a CyberPower system?

I reccomended back then that you reinstall XP because it sounded like you had a bad install. If that was you, and you are still having XP problems, but you havn't reformatted and reinstalled yet, I don't know what you are waiting for.

[alkafluence]

What is the actual error message it throws out?

Basically, the first few lines would be helpful.


Also, did you recently add any hardware or install any new software to the machine?

[Jet-Xino]

I am willing to bet you have some bad ram there. I have seen this happen to two of my computers at home recently. They began acting funny restarting and random times. And the blue screen message was almsot always blah blah.. Memory Dump. Replaced the Ram on both of the computers no more problem. It wouldn't hurt to try reformating and reinstalling first but I think you probably need new memory. Sorry.

[impostal22]

am going to attempt to reformat tonight, we'll see if that helps.

[Thermus]

That happened to one of my computers. It happened more and more frequently as time passed on. Reinstalling XP eventually stopped working, and the computer is practically unusable now. It still can surf the web and stuff, but as soon as we start saving stuff to it it all goes down.