Physical Memory DUMP?

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Xite

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Sometimes when i'm listening to mp3s, the computer would suddenly show a blue screen and i could manage ot read this line "physical memory dump." I've got this message before, but now it's occuring more and more often.
What does this mean? HOw do i fix it?

Compdetails:
Winxp Profe.
1.2 ghz athlon
512 mbram
2-45gig hD
sb live 5.1
etc, which i doubt caused this

Much appreciated,

Ben
 
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Lord Evermore

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What exactly is "mbram"? Oh, nevermind, MB of RAM. :) What kind of RAM (brand, type, et cetera).

Does this only happen while you're playing MP3's? What software are you using to play them?

Find out what kind of PSU you have.
 
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Xite

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Hey,

it's 512 Mushking ddr sdram.

I don't know what PSU is.

Well the last two times the computer bluescreen, it was while i was using windows media player 9.
The computer has definitely had problems but not for a long time. I'm also using cacheman 5.11, and it's never given me problems before...
Hmm...what else? oh yea...everytime i restart, when i come back into windows, the "windows has recovered from a serious failure" or something of that sort, i'm sure you guys know what i'm talking about. If i submit, it's always some problem with some driver of mine, but i dont' know which one and this has been happpening for a few months now.

Lots of stuff, thanks for your time.
 
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A) PSU = Power Supply Unit

B) Did you check your event viewer to see if the system log can point you to the problem? It sounds like a system file may have become corrupt (maybe overwritten by an older version of the same file?) and Media Player is giving the BSOD when it can't access the correct file. try reinstalling MP9 and see if that helps.
 
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I would swap out to the latest SB Live 5.1 driver. They are notorious for having bugs.

After that I'd treat the whole thing as a random BSOD and start checking the usual suspects: Bad stick of memory, insufficient PSU. Randome bsod's can be a bitch. The next time you have one, jot down the first two lines of the blue screen and come back here and post them.
 
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Thanks a lot.
Btw, what's BSOD?
I'll try the suggestions, you guys were very helpful.
 
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Xite

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Argg! it just happened again. I was actually just writing something...not even touching my computer, no progs running, then suddenly! blue screen, of course it is so fast that i can't even see what it says...restarts and pretends that everything is a-okay =(

i just reinstall win media play 9
 
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altonb1

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BSOD = Blue Screen of Death. Basically, your problem. A "Beginning Dump of Physical memory" error screen that can only be recovered by power-cycling the PC. It's a feature of NT4, 2000 and XP. Of course, any quirky problem is considered a "feature" by Microsoft, apparently.

I really don't know what else to suggest if reinstalling WMP9 did not fix it.

as others have posted, it may be a piece of hardware that is starting to fail, or is at least not as stable as you would like.

Try to change your recovery options (Right click my Computer, then look under one of those tabs. can't remember which one off-hand) to not auto-reboot. That will give you a chance to actually read the errors (if you can make any sense of them, anyway)
 
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I've got down the BSOD message:

Memory_Management

Stop: 0x0000001A(0x00003451, 0xc02c997c, 0x81bb4490, 0x00000000)


 
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what OS are you using?

right click on - My computer -> select - Properties --> select - Advanced ---> Startup and Recovery ----> uncheck [Automatically reboot] and restart your computer.



you should also try uninstalling WMP 9 and use a different program to play your MP3's (e.g. Winamp, DJ2000, etc.) for a while and see what happens.


 
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I already reinstalled winmediaplayer 9, and BSOD seems to happen anytime, whether playing music or not. Sometimes it would happen when my computer is not doing anything....

Sometimes it woudl happen when i'm using WINWORd.

I'm using WINXP btw. I unchecked automatcially reboot, but after my comp restarts, the comp rechecks it!


 
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tbonesin2000

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the other week i was having BSOD's every thime i booted my computer and tried to do anything, especially play music, i reinstalled all of my drivers and that helped for a while, then it started happening again, so i disabled some unused USB ports and stuff, and that took care of it. so it might be your sb live driver or it could be the PSU not pumpin out enough power. do you have anything like extra usb that you could disable to stop drawing that extra power?
 
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Xite

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Thanks a lot. I'll try to disable some usbs and i'll uninstall media player.
The PSU might be the problem, cus i was having problems with it last year too. I've actually had to disconnect my cdrw and only have the dvd rom running, and then when i would want to use the cdrw i'd have to swap them.

Another problem is my cdrw is not writing at 16x anymore only at 8x, well that's another problem. i'll try to fix this one first. FYI, cdrw is the Yamaha 16x.
 
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Newest BSOD:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

0x0000000A (0x8fb48fb9, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x804DD576)
 
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Xite

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Yes i've gotten all the service packs,

Last thing: how do i uninstall MEDIA PLAYer?...it's not in the add/remove programs
 
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AMDExtremeist

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Now i think we all know that when BSOD comes up, It dumps everything from your physical memory to your HD, regardless of the error.
 
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STOP 0x0000000A messages are usually driver problems or faulty hardware. STOP 0x0000001A messages can be driver problems or faulty RAM. This could be a ah heck to nail down.

As someone suggested, you should check your event viewer...right click on my computer, expand the event viewer and look for red stop events. Report back with all the info you can, the event viewer may list an offending driver, or contain an event ID that is useful on the microsoft knowledge base.

Another thing you can do is verify that all your hardware is on the HCL and make sure all your drivers are WHQL Certified.
 
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Xite

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I'm using WinXp classic view, so i couldn't find "Event viewer"
but I did get another crash!
0x00000024 (0x001902f9, 0xF8995a24, 0xf8995724, 0xf83ff223)
NTFS. SYS- address f83ff223 base at f83d500, Datastamp

dont' know how to uninstall
 
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