Blue screen blues.

[spleen]

Well, I had a computer, running Windows 2000 Pro perfectly for almost
a year and all of a sudden, I kept getting blue screens with the
message "Physical Memory Dump Error". So I thought I'd reinstall
it...Same message again during installation even with a formatted
drive. Hmm, let me try NT 4.0 now. Same thing. God, I guess I'll go to
the horrid win9x...explorer crashes. Must be the memory I thought to
myself. Throw brand new memory in the system, still the same error.
Messed around with HDD/CD-ROM drive jumpers, nothing. My final thought
is just to get a new motherboard but I'm not sure. Any thoughts?

 

[UnixFreak]

Since you are obviously capable of installing an OS, why dont you install linux, and ditch the blue-screen blues? But seriously, the OS is not the problem, if you have replaced the memory, and that is not the problem, you need to look at some other areas, are you overclocking? there are issues there, also, you could have bad sectors in your hard drive that win is not properly detecting, there could be CMOS issues, maybe tweaking around in there would not hurt, but I dont think the mother board is the issue, but I could be wrong. I think I would look to some other areas first, there could be many things going on, A good, clean format of the HD from the floppy couldnt hurt.

 

[owensdj]

spleen, have you scanned your hard drive(s) for bad sectors using the hard drive manufacturer's diagnostic software? I had a similar problem with blue screen crashes(Kernel Stops) when I wiped out NT 4.0 and installed Win2K. Win2K was unstable on the same hardware that never crashed a single time using NT 4.0 in over 9 months of 24/7 use. I tried to reinstall Win2K, but it wouldn't even copy the OS files without a crash. It turned out that the hard drive was starting to have problems.

Another thing to check is to make sure the fan on the processor is still working. A fan failure can cause your processor to overheat and crash the operating system.