does it to me too bro, but it rarely happens. i just deal with it.

did you check your CPU fan?, also make sure nothing is loose.

ya I've checked the fan and temperature through BIOS and everything is fine.. I scanned for viruses, and I didnt find anything, and there are no loose cords either, and I also dusted it out and vacuumed out my PC .. and yet nothing seems to want to work properly..

by the way. this all happened during sunday arounf 5pm... I never used it for the whole weekend cuz I was gone to a cottage... so when I get back i went to use my pc and it fucked up...

I dont get it.. I dont use my PC and it breaks .. hmm makes sense eek:

maybe its on stand by mode?

I have System Stand-by set to "never" so I don't think it's that

the ultimate cooling device...SHOVE THE DAMN THING IN THE FREEZER

do you have an extra hard drive?(if you don't just buy a new hard drive) Install windows on that.

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Mine does that sometimes too, it comes up with this blue screen (like the one buck posted) saying "beginning dump of memory" or something like that, then restarts. It's completely random, not just when I'm using certain programs. I know it's not a virus, and I've heard of many XP users having this problem, yet no one seems to know how to stop it from doing this.

Buckeh, change your boot settings to boot from CD
then start your comp with your Win (XP, ME whatever) your Win CD in.

Pretty much what comes next is easy, except if you want to create partitions.

just boot from your CD and all will work out

happens to me sometimes too ... no big deal. probably heat, but might not be ... i also get an acpi error (im pretty sure). next time it happens check the event list (if you dont know where it s in the control panel / admin tools / event viewer). im not sure how to correct it. ive also seen that irq message too, sometimes when im setting up windows. not sure how to correct it either. when i see it during setup i normally set the bios to load defaults and it works out. i also unplug everything usb ...

Just try a reinstall instead of a format. Probably a driver or two thats fucked.

halo2 sucks ... stfu steve :D

Fookin jethro.. biggrin:

[quote:fd80b]ok, so after getting that message, i was told to either re-install windows or format, so I re-installed,,and I got that same error screen again [/quote:fd80b]

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I tried one of these methods, hopefully it will stop this shit