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From: brassplyer on 22 Jul 2010 06:08
Running a 2.4 gig Core2 Duo system, XP Pro, 2 gigs ram..

Had an issue where I got a BSOD a couple of times in a row in a short
period, just kind of out of nowhere. One time was playing a YouTube
video, once while doing something with an audio recording app.

On a hunch I pulled and reseated the RAM sticks, so far haven't seen a
revisit of the problem.

Some of observations about the crash - it borked the active desktop -
got a white background and a blue triangle with a "Restore Active
Desktop?" radio button. I've seen this before after crashes, but this
time clicking it didn't seem to have any effect. It goes to my normal
desktop now after a few reboots, but I notice that when booting, the
system takes a lot longer and also hangs for a moment at this point
where the background desktop image disappears for a bit, there's a
blue background, the desktop icons are in incomplete form. Don't
recall that it did this before.

When it finally does go back to a background image with icons, it
takes longer to boot and be ready for action. In fact everything is
sluggish. Apps are taking longer to load, takes forever for Firefox to
come up. The task manager showing levels of CPU use 15 - 50% - on a
Core2 Duo system - where I get the sense it shouldn't be laboring that
hard, not much going on. The machine just "feels" different in its
behavior than pre crashes. Seems to remain this way after several
reboots.

Ran a Virus Scan with freshly updated Bitdefender, found one cookie it
got rid of, nothing sinister.

Any suggestions as to what might be going on?
From: TVeblen on 22 Jul 2010 07:38
On 7/22/2010 6:08 AM, brassplyer wrote:
> Running a 2.4 gig Core2 Duo system, XP Pro, 2 gigs ram..
>
> Had an issue where I got a BSOD a couple of times in a row in a short
> period, just kind of out of nowhere. One time was playing a YouTube
> video, once while doing something with an audio recording app.
>
> On a hunch I pulled and reseated the RAM sticks, so far haven't seen a
> revisit of the problem.
>
> Some of observations about the crash - it borked the active desktop -
> got a white background and a blue triangle with a "Restore Active
> Desktop?" radio button. I've seen this before after crashes, but this
> time clicking it didn't seem to have any effect. It goes to my normal
> desktop now after a few reboots, but I notice that when booting, the
> system takes a lot longer and also hangs for a moment at this point
> where the background desktop image disappears for a bit, there's a
> blue background, the desktop icons are in incomplete form. Don't
> recall that it did this before.
>
> When it finally does go back to a background image with icons, it
> takes longer to boot and be ready for action. In fact everything is
> sluggish. Apps are taking longer to load, takes forever for Firefox to
> come up. The task manager showing levels of CPU use 15 - 50% - on a
> Core2 Duo system - where I get the sense it shouldn't be laboring that
> hard, not much going on. The machine just "feels" different in its
> behavior than pre crashes. Seems to remain this way after several
> reboots.
>
> Ran a Virus Scan with freshly updated Bitdefender, found one cookie it
> got rid of, nothing sinister.
>
> Any suggestions as to what might be going on?

It's hard to say. It certainly sounds like you have a failing piece of
hardware. Could be the RAM, Video Card, Power Supply, or the MB itself.
But then it could be an OS corruption. You need more clues.

Open Start > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer. Look at the System
section. Check all the Critical Events and note the names and error codes.

The information given on the Blue Screen on a system crash would also be
helpful.
From: Charles_Schilli on 24 Jul 2010 16:48

When is the last time you checked the registry?


From: smlunatick on 28 Jul 2010 10:12
On Jul 22, 11:08 am, brassplyer <brasspl...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Running a 2.4 gig Core2 Duo system, XP Pro, 2 gigs ram..
>
> Had an issue where I got a BSOD a couple of times in a row in a short
> period, just kind of out of nowhere. One time was playing a YouTube
> video, once while doing something with an audio recording app.
>
> On a hunch I pulled and reseated the RAM sticks, so far haven't seen a
> revisit of the problem.
>
> Some of observations about the crash - it borked the active desktop -
> got a white background and a blue triangle with a "Restore Active
> Desktop?" radio button. I've seen this before after crashes, but this
> time clicking it didn't seem to have any effect. It goes to my normal
> desktop now after a few reboots, but I notice that when booting, the
> system takes a lot longer and also hangs for a moment at this point
> where the background desktop image disappears for a bit, there's a
> blue background, the desktop icons are in incomplete form. Don't
> recall that it did this before.
>
> When it finally does go back to a background image with icons, it
> takes longer to boot and be ready for action. In fact everything is
> sluggish. Apps are taking longer to load, takes forever for Firefox to
> come up. The task manager showing levels of CPU use 15 - 50% - on a
> Core2 Duo system - where I get the sense it shouldn't be laboring that
> hard, not much going on. The machine just "feels" different in its
> behavior than pre crashes. Seems to remain this way after several
> reboots.
>
> Ran a Virus Scan with freshly updated Bitdefender, found one cookie it
> got rid of, nothing sinister.
>
> Any suggestions as to what might be going on?

sfc /scannow ???????

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