Blue Screen Plauge

I have an XP Pro machine that is blue screening about once a week, sometimes
more often sometimes less.
I don't know how to evaluate the system to determine what's causing it, the
Microsoft response says "hardware failure is the most likely cause".
Everything on this system is less than 3 weeks old.
I tried to post the minidump file, but it said the article was too large, so
let me know if I need to put it up for download somewhere.
There is also a more recent one 8/10. Let me know if it helps to send it..
Thank you so much for any help you can be, this is very frustrating.
I will post a couple event log messages as a response to my own message
because it tells me this article is too large to post with them in it.

!TG wrote:

I have an XP Pro machine that is blue screening about once a week,
sometimes more often sometimes less.
I don't know how to evaluate the system to determine what's causing it,
the Microsoft response says "hardware failure is the most likely cause".
Everything on this system is less than 3 weeks old.
I tried to post the minidump file, but it said the article was too large,
so let me know if I need to put it up for download somewhere.
There is also a more recent one 8/10. Let me know if it helps to send it..
Thank you so much for any help you can be, this is very frustrating.
I will post a couple event log messages as a response to my own message
because it tells me this article is too large to post with them in it.

Random failures like you describe are usually hardware-related. The age of
the machine/components is irrelevant; in fact, if hardware is going to die
it will usually do so rather quickly or go for years.

If this is a new computer under warranty, take it back immediately for
replacement.

If you want to troubleshoot it yourself, here are some general steps. I
would start with the RAM.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...roubleshooting

Testing hardware failures often involves swapping out suspected parts with
known-good parts. If you can't do the testing yourself and/or are
uncomfortable opening your computer, take the machine to a professional
computer repair shop (not your local equivalent of BigStoreUSA).

Malke
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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
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