Windows KEeps giving me BSOD - how do I read/interpret the outputs?

magomago

Lifer
Sep 28, 2002
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So starting about late January/early february, windows has abruptly been giving me BSODs. My PC is about 1 year old as follows:

2500k
gtx460 sli
4x4 smart talent ram
1x ssd (128gb kingston)
1x hdd (1tb samsung f3)
NZXT 650W 80+ Gold PSU

Windows logs these crashes in .XML and .DMP files, and I have several of these files from the multiple crashes.

Is there a place I go to get these analyzed? I'd like to know if there is something wrong in SW, or if there is something wrong with my HW (although I know that I might as well start with memtest, etc)
 

SimMike2

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Aug 15, 2000
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I'm betting it is a hardware problem and not an OS problem. Good guess is the video card.