blackscreen of death???

[bobsmith1492]

Ok, we were using powerpoint and there was a bluescreenlike thing - you could see it was a physical memory dump. However, the screen wasn't blue; it was kind of black-dark grey with a bunch of lines jumbled together over all the screen except the bottom, where it said 'Beginning physical memory dump' and it was counting up from one.

First off, what does a physical memory dump mean?
Second, what does a messed-up blue screen mean? Bad video card? I dropped the AGP voltage back down to default to see if anything else happens, and it is running Prime as I type.

System:
Shuttle Nforce II U400
unlocked 2500 barton @ 200x10.5
1x512 MB Mushkin basic, default timings, 2.6V
5600U with AGP voltage at 1.55V (no OC though)
80gig Maxtor
decent power supply

Any ideas?

 

[bobsmith1492]

(bump)

I guess everyone's stumped 😛

 

[bobsmith1492]

So anyway, could a flakey video card cause a bluescreen that was garbled and dark?

 

[Brian23]

Were you using a projector at the time? If could be the projector...

 

[bobsmith1492]

No.... no projector. Why would you think of that? You mean, was the nastiness on a projector? Anyway, no, no projector.