Windows crashing

[webmonkeyuk]

Everynow and then my system will crash with the windows blue screen where it says "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer" Only seems to do it when ive got a game running. Running XP, and System is a Conroe E6400, Gigabyte 965P-DS3, GeIL 2GB PC6400 800MHz,Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 320GB,ATI Radeon X1900 XT 256MB. everything stock

Any ideas?

 

[burtie]

It has to say more than that does the BSOD flash up to quick to read if so try.

Turn off automatically restart on error.

START>SETTINGS>CONTROL PANEL
Double left click SYSTEM
Left click the ADVANCED tab
In the STARTUP AND RECOVERY section, left click the SETTINGS button.
In the SYSTEM FAILURE section, unchceck AUTOMATICALLY RESTART.
Left click OK
Left click APPLY
Left click OK

Then you'll get a BSOD instead of a restart.
Write down the exact error code and come back and tell us what it says.

Is there anything in your event view that you can see?

 

[webmonkeyuk]

cheers ill do that, didnt get chance to read it as it goes off that quick

 

[webmonkeyuk]

Error code is.--- Stop:0X0000007F (0X00000000,0X00000000,0X00000000,0X00000000)

Its done the BSOD 3 times yesteraday on Flightsim X and 2 times on FS9 a few days before, i had a look in the event viewer and there is some logs regarding these.

 

[Wizard]

"This error message can occur if either of the following conditions exists: • Your computer has hardware or software problems (hardware failure is the most common cause).
• You try to over clock the speed of your computer's processor (for example, you set a 150 MhZ processor to run at 187 MhZ).
The above STOP error means a trap occurred in kernel mode and the trap is either one the kernel is not allowed to have or is always fatal. The most common causes of a STOP 0x7F are:• Low-level hardware corruption, such as corrupt memory (RAM)
• Mismatched memory modules
• A malfunctioning motherboard "

I would try running the machine with one module of memory at a time to see if its a flackey memory module.