[vodmare]

Hello Everybody!


Haven't been here in a while, well haven't had too many problems....until now. :(


My machine blue screen a few weeks back while trying to play a video. I played it fine in other players, but WMP would kill the machine. Made a new file and no worries, plays fine. Well just now while on YOUTUBE it did, and then rebooted the machine. Well it shut down the machine with it still running. So I manually rebooted it and I got this error message detail once back up. It said that it had recovered from a serious error:





C:DOCUME~1OwnerLOCALS~1TempWER5910.dir00Mini071408-01.dmp
C:DOCUME~1OwnerLOCALS~1TempWER5910.dir00sysdata.xml





In my experience the mini dump is a video driver, is that correct? Otherwise, anyone know what might be dying here if anything? I would certainly like to get to it before it does.


Thanks guys.





-vodmare.

[coastie65]

Hi Vodmare and welcome back. It would be helpful if we had your system specs. coastie65

[vodmare]

P4 2.6 GHZ

1.5 g Ram

Nvidia GeForce 440 AGP

SB LIVE

Seagate 300 gig HD

80 GIG maxtor

DVD burner, some usb and firewire stuff.

erm, I think thats it really.



Thanks!



-vodmare.

[coastie65]

Hey Vodmare,:D You may have answered your own question, as I think your video card may be dying. I don't know how old the card is, but I've had them go out pretty quick or at least quicker than I thought it should. I expect some others may check in with some insights as well. coastie

[vodmare]

Hey, thanks man. Actually, you know if it is, it will suck but it has really put in its work. I have had this card since about 2003 and it came with the machine when I bought it used. So GOD only knows how long it's really been running. :)



I hope that's the problem. I am going to wait a couple of days and see if any one chimes in, otherwise I will mark this as the answer.



Thanks again Coastie!

-vodmare.

[coastie65]

Hey Vodmare, I've only experienced two BSOD's, and both were directly related to graphics. We'll see if anyone else chimes in with some thoughts though, as it seems like a good idea. coastie

[piyushsingh]

Hi {user:username=vodmare}
You cant get much out that very general error message. It may be the graphics card as {user:username=coastie65} has told you , but you cant be sure.
The BSoD error code can help a bit more in getting to the exact problem. The next time you get the Blue screen ,note down the error code and post it here.