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My computer is working fine since I've... found it... there were a lot of viruses when I found this Windows XP, but after removing them, it worked fine, it's been about half a year since I have it. But today, there's an error that just started to appear: there seems to be a problem with two files, and these files cause Windows to freeze. After a few minutes, the screen turns blue, and I get that frightening error message that says I have a problem with my hardware. When I restarted my computer, I got another error message that says that Windows recovered from an important error, that involves sysdata.xml and mini070806-02.dmp I heard the numbers there are different for everyone. Anyways, my computer freezes when I launch Gunz, and I think the problem is with my graphics card driver, which is Nvidia Riva TNT2 Model 64. I think the error comes from that, because I've recently upgraded, and it caused a lot of problems so I rollbacked to the first version installed on my computer. It then worked for two days, and I suddenly got this error while launching Gunz, a game that requires this graphics card driver. What I don't understand is: why did it work well with this graphics card driver until now, and is the problem really coming from the graphics card driver? I've heard on some old threads that people who get this error have Nvidia Geoforce or something like that, so I'm suspecting my graphics card driver. I've checked on the web for solutions, since Microsoft doesn't have any, and I tried to delete the files in the Minidump folder, so I'm going to reboot my computer now. If it works, I'll just send another message, here, but I need other propositions. Thanks you for taking the time to read this looooooooong message (at least it took me long enough to type it), and sorry for the trouble.

Deleting the Minidump folder worked for me (for now) but I've heard of some people for whom this didn't work. Just make sure you delete ALL Minidump folders you have. I have two, on my two hard drives, C and F. I have the WINDOWS folder in both, so I had to delete both Minidump folders. Here are the steps:
1. Go in My Computer
2. Go in any hard drive you have, and go in the WINDOWS folder
3.Delete everything you have in the Minidump folder. You may be okay just by deleting the file in your error message, but I'd rather make sure it the Windows Stop Error won't happen again.I'll soon make another thread with clear steps, symptoms, cause(s), etc.

If you do make another thread, please use paragraphs with a blank line in between them.
Looking at big chunks of text is a sure fire way for me to click on the next message button.

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