Help - Blue Screen of Death

raeble

Hi,
On two ocassions when I've been using the computer lately it has crashed - Today I've had Excel and firefox open and I was switching screens between the two. I also have avg and outpost firewall. On the previous occassion I had dreamweaver and itunes open at the same time.
I've got a p4 2.5ghz, XP, 80gb hd - 26gb free. 1gb ram
Can anyone explain why I'm getting this? I do need to have excel & firefox open at the same time. I suppose I could save the pages then go and check them but it would take longer and might not stop it crashing. The first time it crashed I hadn't managed to save and I had to spend a few hours redoing everything, this time I was very lucky I'd just saved when it decided to crash.

I've got the following found the following error messages in the log -
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x100000d1 (0xaa61924e, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xaa61924e). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini110906-01.dmp.

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x10000050 (0xf7a13451, 0x00000000, 0xaa69f0f1, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini110606-01.dmp.

It also flashed up something about Driver irql not less or equal
afd.sys on one occassion and tcpip.sys on the other before it shut down.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated. I don't normally have my pc crashing, this is the first time in a couple of years.

cdbrown

Check
Start-Settings-Control Panel-Administrative Tools-Event Viewer
This will show all the crashes
From a quick search it seems these errors relate to memory which may be ram or vid card. Get memtest here and run that for a number of loops to see if any errors are displayed. If you have 2 sticks of ram, only test one at a time to identify which is the faulty stick.

pchelpman

The greater majority of blue screen crashes are caused by driver problems. As you saw in one of your error messages. As others have suggested ... check all your drivers. Particularly any you have loaded recently ... perhaps just before the blue screens started appearing.


PCH