Hi I am hving a few probs with xp pro boot up on my second pc sometimes on boot up windows will not load a blue screen of death appears but too quick to read so i dont know what the prob is sometimes it will boot okay and will work fine i have tried the following 1. fixmbr in recovery console (fixes prob for a few days) 2. new install of xp (no change) 3. New hdd (fixed another prob with broken one works better:)) 4. full scan of hdd restored 1 file (worked for a bit 5. changed graphics card and took out old modem as have cable netwoked phew... now i suspect it may be the memory but i dont have any old sd-ram to check it with is ther a program i can download to test memory? any other ideas would be alot of help

memtest86 is a good ramtester. a quick search on google will find it. You can also disable the automatic restart in XP so that you can see the error messages or look in controlpanel eventviewer for details.

Hi, I think I am having the smae problem... I get the blue screen with an error then when I restart again, it gives me this error report: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini022504-01.dmp C:\DOCUME~1\BEN~1.BEN\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER1.tmp.dir02\sysdata.xml I have a USB Speedtouch modem and that would sometimes startup automatically on restart which it is not meant to do..so reinstalled the new drivers... Still no change.... Anyway, hope we can solve it :)) ben

memory, memory, memory... RAM, RAM, RAM... 'nuff said. get good quality memory for your system and get plenty of it! w/ xp, i would have no less than 384MB. for some reason that doesn't work, i would check for a bios update for your system board.

thanks alot guys as i suspected its the memorey what is the best quolity mem i can get (sd-ram) pricelist in £ stearling plz thanks again

i just built my computer and i'm getting the blue screen of death and thats it people say it might be memory i'm wondering because i have an asus a7v8x and they recommended using 512 kingston but i bought 256 instead also i can't get my cd rom to read experienced computer builder thanks for any help with this my windows o s trying to load but only does so for 1 sec I see a blue screen cant use cd rom it won't read ant ideals

thekatna if you runin xp 256 is the minimum get more more i tell you morrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee he he he yeh go for the 512 shud be enough form most people