is there anyone that could refer me to a utility or show me the best way to get rid of these blue screens i get constantly. I have tried bios updates, disabling applications one by one, disabling drivers and hardware devices and still i have no results. They are totally unexpected and i recieve one of 6 different messages when they appear. any help would be appreciated. my system info is as follows: Computer System Name : VORTEX User Name : Solo Logon Domain : VORTEX Processor(s) Model : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Speed : 1.54GHz Model Number : 1800 (estimated) Performance Rating : PR2253 (estimated) L2 On-board Cache : 256kB ECC synchronous write-back Mainboard and BIOS Bus(es) : ISA AGP PCI IMB USB SMBus/i2c MP Support : 1 CPU(s) System BIOS : American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T Mainboard : Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 7VRXP System Chipset : VIA Technologies Inc VT8366/A Apollo KT266/A,KT333 CPU to PCI Bridge Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 134MHz (268MHz data rate) Installed Memory : 512MB DDR-SDRAM Memory Bus Speed : 2x 168MHz (336MHz data rate) Video System Monitor/Panel : Default Monitor Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 Physical Storage Devices Removable Drive : Floppy disk drive Disk Drive : FUJITSU MPE3084AE Disk Drive : ST340016A CD-ROM/DVD : ATAPI DVD-ROM 16XMax CD-ROM/DVD : LITE-ON LTR-48125S CD-ROM/DVD : V386 STEALTH DVD SCSI CdRom Device Logical Storage Devices 1.44MB 3.5" (A:) : N/A Hard Disk (C:) : 37.3GB (1.7GB, 4% Free) (NTFS) CD-ROM/DVD (D:) : N/A Hard Disk (E:) : 6.8GB (1.7GB, 25% Free) (NTFS) Hard Disk (F:) : 1.0GB (93MB, 9% Free) (FAT32) CD-ROM/DVD (G:) : N/A CD-ROM/DVD (K:) : N/A Peripherals Serial/Parallel Port(s) : 3 COM / 0 LPT USB Controller/Hub : VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller USB Controller/Hub : VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller USB Controller/Hub : VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller USB Controller/Hub : VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub USB Controller/Hub : USB Printing Support Keyboard : Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard Mouse : Logitech USB Wheel Mouse Human Interface : Generic Game port Device Human Interface : HID-compliant game controller Human Interface : Logitech USB Wheel Mouse MultiMedia Device(s) Device : MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device Device : Standard Game Port Device : YAMAHA SW1000XG WDM Driver Device : Creative SB Live! series Device : Creative Game Port Device : Creative AudioPCI (ES1371,ES1373) (WDM) Communication Device(s) Device : IBM Data Fax Modem Printers and Faxes Model : EPSON Stylus C82 Series Model : EPSON Stylus C62 Series Network Printers Model : \\pserver\EPSON Stylus C82 Series Operating System(s) Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional Ver 5.01.2600 Service Pack 1 Network Adapter(s) Networking Installed : Yes Adapter : Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC #2

Go to Gigabyte's website and look for updated chipset drivers.

sounds more like a memory failing, change the memories.DDR or SDRAM

I am having a similar problem.. I have noticed that my BSDs happen while I am using an application that uses the sound devices. I have both Real Player and Windows Media Player (latest version of both) and every time I play anything with sound, it will play for some time but eventually it will BSD on me with different Stop errors every time from 0x00000008 and 0x00000024 and others. Microsoft is no help here it just says it is a device driver causing the problem... I have updated my VIA Technologies Media Controler driver to a version dated of Feb/26/03 but this didnt stop the problem. I thought too of my memory but is unlikly since it only happens when I play sound and after a while as oposed to immidiatly. Any comments....?

I was getting lots of the 0x0000050 type blue screens but only when playing games, so I took the side off my pc to check / relocate the RAM and noticed a thick layer of dust on the CPU heatsink. I got my Dyson with brush connection and gave the heatsink and motherboard a good vacuuming. I have not had the blue screen of death since. Possibly overheating?