blue screen of death
 

Everytime I'm in the middle of something my computer crashes. I get this error, does anyone know what is causing it? I'm guessing hardware, I just dont know what.

Stop: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0x8053E4D5, 0xF6E229B4, 0x00000000)
Begining Dump of Phsyical Memory

upgrade to xp, you will never get BSOD, xp will just automatically close the program heh.

set your computer on fire, its the only way to flush the demons out of it

I am in XP

weird, never gotten a bsod using xp...

what kinda computer do you have? custom built ?

eally I don't get that stuff much anymore using XP the only time I have really was with my laptop that was fucked so I'd be inclicned to think if its not a certain APP maybe some piece of hardware is fucking up

Its a Dell. Its only about a year old, been doing this for about 6 months. Dells customer support is no help at all because they do not speak english. The harddrive makes weird noises sometimes so I figured it may have something to do with that? I also thought it may be the RAM

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if you're getting errors like that in XP..you need a new pc..xp may be shitty..but it doesnt do that unless it was touched as a child, now it has real problems and flips out from time to time

I've found that RAM has been my problem many times... Especially at internext :Graucho

checkwith the memory first. most generic memory chips do this. i had the same issue until i replaced the chip with 2 crucial rams. since your on a dell you need to make sure they dont use thier own brands like compaq does or use to do.

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Drop the rror message in Deja.com. I had a similiar problem recently with a video machine. It was a bad disk.

I haven't had one of those in years.

take out the ram and reinstall it sometimes it's just not seated right...

I've had errors like that on XP home and it was caused by some software that was installed. I removed my last few installs and i never got the error again.
So your error might not be hardware, but software.
Have you tried using the system restore?

check this out from Microsoft site:

"Random "0x0000008E" Error Message on a Blue Screen in Windows XP"

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;827663

Page dumps in a system like XP or Linux usually suggest bad memory.

Try replacing your RAM.

SIGSEGV (Signal 11/Segmentation fault) on Linux/BSD are not often caused by "bad memory" they're often caused by programs referencing an address that has been previously free()'d or sometimes just a call to an area of memory that does not exist. You should check the program, before you run off to swap ram !

Sometimes when crackers use scripts to exploit a program they use the wrong area of memory to pass their shellcode (executable code ) that can cause segmentation faults too, so you should check for possible kiddie activity.

Dunno what it is.. just format and re-instal windows XP at least !

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Segmentation faults (or core dumps) are not the same as page dumps. A segfault is when an application attempts to access restricted memory.

A page dump is when the kernel crashes and dumps it's pages. In Linux it's a kernel panic.. in Windows (NT/2K/XP) it's the BSOD.