Blue Screen!

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I guess I bragged on XP a little too soon. Went to defrag and before it finished I got this.

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps.

Check to be sure you have adequate disk space. If a driver is identified in the stop message, disable the driver or check with the manufacturer for driver updates. Try changing video adapters.

Check with your hardware vendor for any Bios updates. Disable Bios memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need
to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press f8 to select advanced setup options, and then select safe mode.

Stop: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0x804E5FF4, 0xF7A2EC5C,
0xF7A2E95C.

Beginning dump of physical memory. Physical memory dump complete.

1. I restarted and everything came up alright.
2. I only have 5GIG taken up on a new Maxtor 80GIG HDD.
3. I updated my drivers on my video card, PNY geforce2 mx400 64mb.
4. I updated my Bios for my mobo, ASUS A7A266.
5. I have no idea how to check that stop error.
6. why would it dump all the physical memory?
7. I'm not saying this will happen again, but am I looking at future problems?

[ktkendall]

Did windows run a chkdsk next time you booted?? if not I would run one, from the run box just type chkdsk and it will tell you it can not do it now but would you like windows to run it at next startup, say yes and reboot. It will do quite an extensive check of your harddisk before windows starts fully and attempt to fix any errors. if all goes well there then I would attempt the defrag again, also make sure there are no apps running in the backround when you defrag.

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ktkendall

Thanks very much for the info, I'll try that.