Computer randomly freezes and turns colors

[justlevine]

So, for a bit more than a week, my laptop has been randomly freezing on me, the screen randomly going blank, or blue (my background color, not a bsod). Sometimes it happens in middle of activity, sometimes it happens after i return to my computer after it being idle. The only way to fix it is for me to manually restart the laptop by holding the power button.
This last time, however, when i turned back on the computer, I was rewarded w. a minidump file in the event viewer. the troubleshooting link said it was a bsod, despite me not seeing an actual bsod.

I was sent here from the bsod forums:
techspot.com/vb/topic125683.html

i did all the steps in the virus removal post. its still happening. I included the proper logs.

What can i do to fix this?

 

[MMDominator88]

Doesn't look like you have a virus

What are your system specs? and this is just a suggestion, but download the latest driver for your graphics card and see if that does not solve the issue of the screen changing colors when resuming from standby/hibernate
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx for AMD graphics cards
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us for NVIDIA cards
and if you have integrated graphics you will need to go to the appropriate site for that company

 

[justlevine]

Its a Gateway MX6958 running XP SP3.
Intel T2300 1.66ghz, 2gb ram (2 1gb chips). Virtual Ram is at 2gb too. Intergrated graphics, the 945 express chipset.
All my drivers are up to date.

 

[MMDominator88]

Have you tried running memtest on your RAM? you may have gotten the minidump due to a corruption of memory. I would advise to run memtest and see if any errors show up (a minimum of 7 hours is recommended, I believe). If you have already done that, let me know

 

[Bobbye]

I dont usually get the error message listed in the event viewer.

Look for Error in Event Viewer corresponding to time of the freeze. Hopefully we can get some additional infomation to help troubleshoot:

Start> Run> type in eventvwr

Do this on each the System and the Applications logs:
1. Click to open the log>
2. Look for the Error>
3 .Double click on the Error to open>
4. Click on Copy button, top right, below the down arrow
5. Paste here (Ctrl V)

Please ignore Warnings and Information Events.

 

[justlevine]

the ram passed memtest (I ran it when the problem first started happening).
So Ive been checking, and no error appears on any of the freezes, except for one:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Save Dump
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 4/10/2009
Time: 12:59:49 PM
User: N/A
Computer: DL
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x100000d1 (0x01c9b999, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xb9384df2). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini041009-01.dmp.

the forums are not letting me repost the minidump file. It is linked to in my first post in this thread

 

[Bobbye]

Please ignore Warnings and Information Events.

An Information Event is simply logging the function that is being handled on the system. It is normal. It is not an error.

But I would think there is an Error before the 'dump' information.

 

[justlevine]

That i got a dump file that one time is a fluke (maybe its not connected).
I looked a bit more, and I found this one like three minutes *after*
Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 4/10/2009
Time: 1:02:12 PM
User: N/A
Computer: DL
Description:
Error code 100000d1, parameter1 01c9b999, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 b9384df2.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 64 100000d
0020: 31 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d 1 Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 30 31 eters 01
0030: 63 39 62 39 39 39 2c 20 c9b999,
0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 32 00000002
0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000
0048: 30 30 2c 20 62 39 33 38 00, b938
0050: 34 64 66 32 4df2

But in general, there is no error message, or any message.
Im also noticing now that sometimes the computer is still going, its jus the screen that has stopped working.

 

[Bobbye]

Error code: 100000d1 - can be the page file is corrupt.

See if this will resolve it:
Control Panel> System> Advanced tab> Virtual Memory> Change> CHECK 'no page file> Set> OK> Apply> OK> Reboot