I burned memtest86 to a cd, booted into it and I get an error that "the memory map contained ranges extended above 4gb" (I have 4gb of ram, 32 bit system) BUT it says I can continue anyway, and both times I ran it for hours. It seems to hang up on the 4th test called Stride6, and it made it to pass 6 not 7... but no errors display and wouldn't make progress or let me press x to quit (like it was unresponsive). So I guess we shouldn't rule out the memory yet? idk, thanks for any help!
The bsod are pretty frequent, and I can't find any pattern of when they occur, at first I thought it was just watching streaming flash or occassionally during games, but it seems to happen at any time between 30 minutes to several hrs.
some of the messages at bs are nvlddmkm.sys , portcls.sys , sptd.sys , driver_irql , sometimes the code is x0000008E or D1