Random BSOD's

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Hello,

I need help.


System:
Motherboard: Asus K8U-X (Uli 1689 chipset)
Processor: AMD Sempron 64
PS included with Case ( Rosewill R203A Black Steel ATX Mid Tower
Computer Case 350W Power Supply)
HD: Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600JS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Hard Drive
Optical Drive: LG GSA-4167BK 16X Dual Layer DVD±RW Drive
OS: Win XP Pro sp2
AntiVirus - F-Secure (provided by ISP (Charter)
Video Card: MSI FX5200-TD128LF Geforce FX5200 64-bit DDR AGP 4X/8X
Low Profile Video Card
Audio and Ethernet on m/b
RAM: G.SKILL Value 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
Browser: Mozilla FireFox (ltest upgrade) Email Client: Mozilla
Thunderbird (latest upgrade)


First, let me assure you that I know there have been thousands of
posts about this topic (and I have read hundreds of them). But please
let me offer one more.

Soon after (one day) doing a clean install of Windows XP Pro sp2 on a
brand new SATA hd, in a brand new machine, I began getting random
BSOD's, I have not included any of the BSOD info or minidumps in this
post, because there seems to be no common error in them. The stop
errors and times between them seem completely random. The system might
go for days without a crash, and it might crash multiple times during
the day.

In the advice given in responses to posts like this one bad memory
seems to be the most likely culprit. Toward this end I have run 2
memory tests repeatedly. I have one 1gb stick of "value" memory
installed. When I run memtest 86+ from their boot disk I never get an
error. The longest I have let it run is 26 passes (about 18 hours on
my machine). However, using another memory tester (memtest) which runs
under Windows, I get 15 to 20 errors. I could be just whistling in the
dark here, but I think this might shift the blame from bad memory to
something loaded with Windows or some hardware used by Windows (i.e.,
Video Card itself or its driver, hard drive, audio driver etc.).

I will be glad to post text files of all the minidumps if someone
thinks they can help me.

TW

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