Sudden and constant reboots

[symulcrum]

I have been using XP for some time now. Only recently, about the last month or so, I am having constant (by that I mean at least once every two days) reboots.

I am running an Athlon 1900+
Nvidia GeForce 3
SoundBlaster Live!

Latest and greatest updates and patches

Here is the error message in the event viewer:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000050 (0xf0fb5694, 0x00000001, 0x8054ab9c, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP.



That is it! Nothing shows up before the reboot...just BAM reboot.

It rarely happens when I am on doing something, though when it does it BSOD's are reboots.

I am getting REALLY frustrated. I work in a mixed Linux/Windows environment and have touted the positives about the OS (stability, reliability, etc). If I did not play games so much this would drive me to switch to linux just due to stability issues....sheesh.

Can ANYONE shed light on this issue?

[martcaz]

i had this problem..tuns out it was a bad piece of RAM get memtest 86 (free) and try that

[symulcrum]

I'll give it a try! Thanks.

[VirusEJ]

Don't suppose you have a link where we could get that, I sometimes have similar issues, and once my memory chip blew, so would like to check this out.

Thanks

David