Occasional bootup crash in XP2 SP2

[Jim Bancroft]

Every once in a while my XP machine will toss a BSOD on bootup-- very quickly, then it restarts itself and everything's cool. This happens maybe one out of every five or ten boots. I can't tell what the message is, because every time I pay attention it never happens. Is there a log I can look at afterwards, to see what went wrong and why? Do I have to start in safe mode for this to happen?


For the record: I'm using a Thermaltake 420D power supply, so I should have enough juice (2 SATA drives, a 6600GT graphics card, 18amps on the 12V) to run effectively. I have an MSI NForce4 Ultra motherboard with an Athlon64 chip. No overclocking, and I have 2 GB of PC3200 RAM, Corsair Value brand.

 

[eplebnista]

I got those myself every once in a while, and disabled the restart option so that it stays on the blue screen, instead of rebooting, so I could read the error. I figured out which file was causing the problem and it turned out to be related to the nVidia firewall. I have not experienced a single blue screen since I uninstalled the nVidia firewall.