When I try to burn a CD, after a 1 or 2 minutes i get a blue screen with some weird text and at the end it says Beginning physical memory dump. Then I have to reset. Please help me with my problem (I've also been experiencing comp crashes when I try to install some software) Please HELP!!

reboot and check the cd drive in device manager. What does it say? How about the event viewer in start / programs / administrative tools? there are 3 error logs that catch stuff like that.

It doesn't say anything for the CD drive. It says that it works properly. In the event viewer there are some warnings regarding the network card and IP adresses and two errors: DCOM and ntfs(it says i should run checkdisk) I was wondering if somenthing may be wrong with RAM?

dear fellow, did you check your hard disc? sometimes qhen you have problems with your drive, it makes a lot of retries to get the information and if it doesnŽn get it it goes to a memory dump, another thing you can check is your last update operating system (service pack) maybe it is too old of course if oyu have a win-nt or win2k operating system. good luck best regards raul delgado

If you are on Windows 2000, here is something that you can try. R click on My Computer go to properties. Under the Advanced tab, click on the performance options button. In the performance options screen, click on the change button. You should get a Virtual Memmory screen. Make the "initial size" be about the size of your RAM, then make the "maximum size" be about 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 times the size of your RAM.

Forgot to mention, after you make the change in those numbers, you need to click on the set button.

lets see: ntfs is your file system DCOM is a distributed component manager Device manager says the CD rom drives are ok Is your CDRW drive sharing an interrupt with your NIC? Has this combination of components ever worked together? if so what happened just before the problem started?