What is this blue screen?

[Hi Ho]

This has happened twice tonight. The first time I was in Call of Duty and I clicked switch to multiplyer. Then the screen went blue. Not words or anything. Just a blank blue screen. I had to shut the power off and restart. Then, just now, I had Windows Media Player playing and I pressed the email button on my keyboard to open my Hotmail. Then I pressed the skip song button and the screen went blue again. What on earth could be causing this? Is it a hardware problem or what?

[bailey]

thinking you may need more ram in the system or vid card

[Hi Ho]

Well I have yet to replace the stick that I took out due to incompatibility, leaving me with only 256MB at the moment. However, it shouldn't have a problem with just Media Player and IE. Right now for example, I have 4 IE windows open plus Picture It and Windows Media Player and it is running fine.

[Hi Ho]

It just did it again! I had just installed the new Intellitype software and I clicked Start>Shut Down>Restart then the blue screen appeared again. I had to turn the power off.

[bailey]

you have something set wrong somewhere for sure,
and narrowing it down could be fun.
if your running xp look into the event log to see if anything is showing up there. you can set that up to tell you what might be starting when it it happens

[Hi Ho]

Well it just happened again and it is starting to become more and more frequent. It is almost to the point where it is unusable. The only thing I have done today is install new audio drivers for my onboard sound and besides, I have gotten this blue screen once or twice before. I just noticed a suspicious process as well. (explained in THIS thread. I don't know what is happening. My computer was running just fine. I will check the event log.

EDIT: I checked the event log. Under system there is a continuous stream of "cdrom" warnings with the following message: "An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom0 during a paging operation.". However, this has been the case as far back as I can remember. I don't think that has anything to do with it. Under the application section the log is clean up until the 28th of March where there are several errors including:

"Faulting application mixer.exe, version 1.5.8.0, faulting module mixer.exe, version 1.5.8.0, fault address 0x000016bb."

"Faulting application iexplore.exe, version 6.0.2800.1106, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00000000."

"Hanging application iexplore.exe, version 6.0.2800.1106, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000."

Though most of those may only be related to the hard restart I had to do. I couldn't eve complete a virus scan using AVG. I will try it again now.

[Hi Ho]

AVG came up with nothing. Does anyone have any other suggestions?