As the title says, I'm at a total loss as to why today, all of a sudden and for no apparent reason, i've had FOUR blue screen errors. Some of you might remember me posting this towards the end of last year. Well, the only way I managed to sort the problem was by reinstalling XP. I did so. And for the last 6 weeks XP has been solid as a rock. No problems whatsoever, not one BSOD, nothing. But today, I went to install the latest FTP Explorer. And during the install, the screen went blank, and a blue screen appeared. I restarted thinking it was maybe just a one off. But since then, i've had 3 others, all at random times. However, I have noticed that it seems to happen a lot when clicking the 'X' to close an application - although like I said its totally random. These are the exact same patterns and symptoms I noticed when XP used to crash a lot in my last install. It can't be a hardware issue, because it's been totally solid for the last 6 weeks. Just as my old install was until I started getting these random BSODs. The 4 so far all show different error codes: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000c2 (0x00000007, 0x00000cd4, 0x000066d2, 0x856a8350 The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000000a (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x804f31df) The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x100000c5 (0x61546552, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8054b907) The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000c2 (0x00000007, 0x00000cd4, 0x00005661, 0x8580c1f0). It's really annoying me - does anyone have any ideas as to why this should just happen for no reason, after the PC for being fine? Is it likely to be a driver issue? Whatever it is, would i be able to easily pinpoint what could be causing this? I ran a system restore back to yesterday afternoon, when all was fine, but, as I thought, it didn't fix the problem and I've already had one BSOD since then. Any ideas much MUCH appreciated, as I really don't want to have to reinstall so soon after havin a fresh installation of XP!! Thanks, Alex

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Alex: Does the BSOD happen when you are Online or Offline? Do you have any background programs running, like anti-virus or spyware removal programs? You could start by removing all your PCI cards (modem, audio, etc.) and just leave the video card with nothing else installed. Disconnect your CD-ROM and/or DVD drives. Exit all background running programs. Inotherwords, run your computer with minimal components and see if you get your BSOD. I had a similar experience and it finally came down to finding one bent pin in my IDE connector for my CD-ROM drive unit. Continue to install one component at a time and see if this helps. Small steps. Its a place to start troubleshooting. Hope this helps some what.

Hi, Bugcheck 0x000000c2 (0x00000007, 0x00000cd4, 0x00005661, 0x8580c1f0) is the sign of faulty ram. Run memtest to stress test the ram.

Thanks for all the replies here. Firstly, Gilloz, it happens when i'm online (well i'm on a broadband connection via a router, so i'm always online i suppose!) but I have noticed that when i'm on myspace.com it has a tendency to do it - although like i said, it's totally random. It can happen anytime. About the removal of all the hardware, this morning I took out most components and re-seated them. Things seemed fine but I got another blue screen a minute or two ago. I'm finding it so difficult to pinpoint this - because I can't simply make it happen, so I don't know if removing the hardware (process of elimination) would work, seeing as the error can just happen anytime? CPC2000 - I will run a memtest sometime, if i can find a floppy disk - haven't had to use one in a long time now. The thing about this, though, is if is faulty memory, then how come i had a good 6 weeks or so before this started happening again (after, like i said, the last time i had the exact same problems)? I'm 90% sure it's a software issue, because after reinstalling XP it was solid. On the flip side though, I don't know what sort of software issue would cause such errors!

Well I ran a memtest. It found no problems. I've been on the PC for only about 20 minutes this morning and already had one BSOD. It goes beyond taking the proverbial now. I just can't put my finger on it! For some reason i'm leaning towards thinking it might be down to the graphics card or the hard disk. But, CHKDSK won't let me do a full scan it seems, i get "Windows was unable to complete the disk check" which worries me somewhat. And what about Graphics drivers? I can find none specific for my card, Inno3D Geforce 6600 - the website just points me to the generic Nvidia ones (v77.77) These BSODs are so irritating because, they give no indication about what is wrong. It's all very well telling me about BAD_POOL_CALLERs but I have no idea what that's telling me - plus it seems to be a random error anyway, different codes, etc. so I just cant determine what's wrong. Definitely not a heating issue, my PC is well ventilated and the BIOS reports the CPU at 32 degrees and the M/B at 30, which isn't bad at all. Any more ideas?! Cheers, Alex

Just got another BSOD STOP error which I noted: Stop 0x00000024 Which I looked up, and it says: Stop 0x00000024 or NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM The Stop 0x24 message indicates that a problem occurred within Ntfs.sys, the driver file that allows the system to read and write to NTFS file system drives. So now i'm getting told about NTFS errors too! I don't know where to start.