Vista - screen freeze or blue screen needing reboot

Hi everyone,

I've had voltage issues causing my computer to freeze or reboot during games and dvds. Fixed that and the computer was fine after memtest showing no problems. That was late Dec.

A few days ago, the computer would go to a blue screen saying it's dumping physical memory and then automatically reboots. Thinking my harddisk might be collapsing on me (I have a seagate barracuda 7200.11 500Gb HD with the SD15 firmware, the infamous crash friendly HD), I flash the HD with the SD1A firmware from seagate, then it was fine. 2days later, Catalyst started to cause problems by not responding, so I formated the drive and reinstalled vista ultimate, along with Catalyst, drivers from Mobo manufacturer ASUS, plus a couple of other softwares. That was yesterday, and now I'm getting the same blue screen back, or the computer just freezes.

Does anybody know what's wrong. It's happened a few times so I'm a bit worried.

What is the blue screen code.

BTW, my system is:

AMDX3 8750, 4Gbs of Crucial Ballistix 800Mhz Ram 2x2, Sapphire HD4670 card, on an Asus M3A78-T board.

Sorry, it was too quick to tell. All I see are the words dumping physical memory with a number count, then 2-3 secs later, the computer just reboots.

Ok right click on the computer desktop icon or in the start menu and then go to advanced system settings then go into start up and recovery and uncheck automatically restart then ok all of that and then you will be able to get the code and the all cap words.

I'm sorry, you lost me there a bit (actually right from the beginning :-P ) The first part about right click on the computer desktop icon or in the start menu, which program was I supposed to go into? Sorry, really new with vista, still haven't really go the hang of it all.

Yep, found it in the end, thanks. I'll just have to wait to the system to crash again.

Hi, the problem is with memory management.

Under the technical info, it says:

0X0000001A (0X0000000000004000, 0XFFFFFA8005FD8CE0, 0X0000000000004D00, 0X00000000002FFB17)

Do you need any other info?

Thanks.

From what I can tell you may have a bad stick of ram.

Download this and burn to a disc and run the test with only one stick of ram installed. Then after the test remove the stick of ram and test the other.

http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.5.iso.zip

If it still shows no errors then run the computer with one stick and see if it BSOD's if not try the other stick of ram.

Thanks. I'll try that now.