Date: 02/07/08 (Computer Help)    Keywords: software, xml

Hey everyone. I posted a while ago here with my issue of my computer freezing COMPLETELY randomly. I did make sure my video drivers were up to date by getting the newest ones. However, it's still happening. I don't have the money yet to invest in hardware (such as a new power source) that might not fix the problem.

So I thought I'd post here again with the new issue that's cropped up and see if this sheds some light on the situation.

Once in a while, this is probably the third time, I'll come back to my computer after a while and it'll be at a blue screen that says Physical Memory Dump, and a bunch of information about 'if this is the first time this has happened ignore it' etc etc. I rebooted and Windows brought up a warning saying it was restarted incorrectly and ran its little checker and this is what it gave me:

error signature
BCCode : 10000050 BCP1 : DE24DEDC BCP2 : 00000000 BCP3 : 804E8D84
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 3_0 Product : 256_1

and in that

error report contents
C:\DOCUME~1\Lavie\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERed59.dir00\Mini020608-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Lavie\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERed59.dir00\sysdata.xml

Once again my computer stats are:

Windows XP Pro version 2002 Service pack 3, v3180
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.40GHz
2.41 GHz, 786 MB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 256 MB
Direct X 9.0

Is this a software issue? Should I just try wiping my whole drive and redoing Windows altogether? I REALLY don't wanna do that if it won't help, because I have SO much stuff I'd have to back up. Or is this a ram issue? Or power source?

Any and all help is REALLY appreciated, I'm really at a loss and really stressed out about this.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/863761.html