Hi there,
I am new to this site and seeking help in reference to random BSODs I have been receiving for some time now. I am not a "gamer", but someone who works from home to support my family. I use primarily Excel spreadsheets the majority of the time for my job and I do work a lot with photos and videos from my digital camera making DVDs, and I feel that even my little emachine should be up for these simple tasks. I literally have to save my spreadsheets every 30 seconds or so in fear that my machine is going to shut down (and it does). These BSODs are causing me tremenduous stress as they often interrupt my work day. They truly seem to happen at random. Sometimes I step away from my PC only to find upon my return a BSOD on the screen.
I am not new to working with computers, however, I am a complete newbie to addressing it's problems. I have done many searches using the parameters given in each BSOD and everything I find points to RAM, power supply and drivers.
My first question is...where do I start? What do I do first? Any help would be greatly apreciated.
Oh, one more thing...I downloaded SpeedFan and I'm assuming temp1 and temp2 are high since there are flame icons next to them...
Temp1 61C
Temp2 53C
Temp3 fluctuates between -4C and 35C
HD 0 44C
What do I do about this??
I am running Windows XP SP2 on an emachine T3265, AMD Athlon 3200+, 2.21 GHz, 448 MB RAM
Thank you in advance.
I am new to this site and seeking help in reference to random BSODs I have been receiving for some time now. I am not a "gamer", but someone who works from home to support my family. I use primarily Excel spreadsheets the majority of the time for my job and I do work a lot with photos and videos from my digital camera making DVDs, and I feel that even my little emachine should be up for these simple tasks. I literally have to save my spreadsheets every 30 seconds or so in fear that my machine is going to shut down (and it does). These BSODs are causing me tremenduous stress as they often interrupt my work day. They truly seem to happen at random. Sometimes I step away from my PC only to find upon my return a BSOD on the screen.
I am not new to working with computers, however, I am a complete newbie to addressing it's problems. I have done many searches using the parameters given in each BSOD and everything I find points to RAM, power supply and drivers.
My first question is...where do I start? What do I do first? Any help would be greatly apreciated.
Oh, one more thing...I downloaded SpeedFan and I'm assuming temp1 and temp2 are high since there are flame icons next to them...
Temp1 61C
Temp2 53C
Temp3 fluctuates between -4C and 35C
HD 0 44C
What do I do about this??
I am running Windows XP SP2 on an emachine T3265, AMD Athlon 3200+, 2.21 GHz, 448 MB RAM
Thank you in advance.