Screen blacking out followed by a BSoD

[ExtremeG]

Recently I started getting this problem, it would happen when trying to watch a film with Quicktime or viewing certain pages on Internet Explorer. Like when in hotmail it would happen when I actually open a message, the computer would slow down then the screen would go black then return after a few seconds and I would have to quit IE to prevent the BSoD eventually appearing after one or two more 'blackouts'

Also in Quicktime (I need QT to view movies made on my digital camera and phone) when I would increase the size of the window of the movie it would happen.

The only time I had the screen completely blanking out before this began happening on a regular basis was when I would load up a Sega Genesis emulator but I have never ever got BSoD's until now

[+allan MVC]

What is the BSOD error?

[ExtremeG]

It just does a dump of physical memory, which takes 1-2 minutes then restarts my comp and when Windows XP loads up I get a pop up saying the system has recovered from a fatal error send report.

[+allan MVC]

Go to System Properties - Advanced - Startup & Recovery Settings and uncheck "Automatically Restart". Next time there's a problem you should get a blue screen error instead of a reboot. Post the error here.

[ExtremeG]

Avoided getting the BSOD, but had to put some songs on my ipod so opened up itunes on a reboot and done what I wanted then closed itunes and the desktop refreshed so had to reboot because the BSOD was going to come up (if I use the comp only for web browsing and viewing youtube films it's alright but using programs like itunes, quicktime player etc produces the refreshing then screen blacking out followed by the BSOD)

When I shut it down I get a pop up box opening saying "Ending Task : GUI_Mainframe1238272 " or something similar, then it switched off. Maybe that's a clue to the problem.

Also while searching about it I came across a post on a AMD forum I think, recently somebody else has a problem like mine, but nobody gave him a solution

[VPuccetti]

ExtremeG,

In almost every case of a BSOD you should have a minidump file that is located in \windows\minidump.

If you attach any recent files, we can analyze them to see what is causing the BSOD.

[ExtremeG]

Ok the latest one is from the 17th November, it won't let me upload it

Upload failed. You are not permitted to upload this type of file

[Owen W Veteran]

Just wondered if you're running Windows Vista with Dual Screeens? That can cause problems sometimes.

[ExtremeG]

No it's XP pro

Computer Spec:

Transtec AG

AMD Athlon XP 2600+

1.92GHz

512MB ram

[VPuccetti]

Extreme G,

Change the extension of the file and take off the .dmp (i think thats the extension) and then just zip the file. Try and copy the file to your desktop first...

Do you have Administrator rights?

[ExtremeG]

I uploaded the file to rapidshare the link is

http://rapidshare.com/files/171620964/Mini111708-01.dmp.html

[ExtremeG]

So anybody figured out what the problem is?...

[ExtremeG]

I just done Start>Run>Dxdiag

And got this:

DirectX Files Tab: The file qasf.dll is an old version, which could cause problems.

Maybe that's what is causing the problem as there was nothing else in the report.

[hadouken]

According to the mini-dump you uploaded, your crashes are caused by nv4_mini.sys, which is part of the nVidia display driver. Try updating to the latest version and see what happens. You should also update your XP install to service pack 3 as well, staying with SP1 isn't wise.