Computer blue screen (beginning physical dump)?

Question

After about a hour or two of Youtube-watching or websurfing, i get a blue screen thats says beginning dup of physical memory

at 1st i thought it was the games i was playin so i lowered virtual memory and uninstalled some stuff but it keeps ocurring

is it b/c the videos i stream on the web
and how to i lower internet cache - if that helps the problem

any tips would help
thanks in advance

Answer 1

The question would be: do you receive this BSOD any other time? Are all video streams (not just from YouTube, although YouTube streaming may be filling up available buffers, thus causing the dump) causing this crash & dump? If so, you may have an outdated video driver - go to your video adapter's manufacturer website and download the latest video driver for that adapter model. Also, a previous poster mentioned RAM as being suspect. If you have bad RAM, you'll see it manifested in other system crashes during certain program operations (not always at the same time, but possibly when the program is trying to write to a certain address in memory). It does sound like virtual memory is set too low. I would suggest you upgrade to at least 1 GB of physical RAM and set your pagefile to 1-1.5 times that amount. Make sure you have plenty of hard drive space and that your temp folder is emptied out (usually either in C:\Windows\Temp or C:\Document and Settings\\Local Settings\Temp).

Answer 2

If you're on XP, it probably means a hardware problem, or a driver problem. Look at the names of any files on the screen - and then search for them to see what they are. For example, (not saying this is the case) you may find one is part of the video card drivers - which may mean drivers are bad and you need an update (nvidia.com or ati.com depending on brand), or the card itself is broken. It could also, for example, be bad RAM, motherboard, CPU... most any part failing will cause blue screens. You can write down the crazy hex code (the thing that looks like 0x800000E...) and search online for the first section of it - those numbers actually do mean an error message, you just have to look it up.

Answer 3

Its your RAM. Everytime you run something it gets loaded into RAM first. Even after it stops some remnant of code stays stuck in.there. Your machine is trying to dump that data because it has nowhere else to run the programs from. Also, could be a good indication of your RAM going bad. I had to replace RAM lots of times on peoples machines because the RAM became corrupted and fried.

The Syko Ward

Answer 4

Do you have antivirus software installed on your computer? We had that happen to us before - the blue screen of death and we found out that there was a backdoor virus in our computer. We had to get a better software antivirus program to get rid of it...

Answer 5

i had the exact same problem with my laptop all you have to do is load the display drivers (moniter drivers)