blue screen of death

[Sir. Cheesecake]

just upgraded my computer, now i get the blue screen of death every 20 minutes. Sometimes its for drivers other times its for memory something or rather. Any way to fix it without reinstalling windows?

[Bobcat]

Usually changing your hardware by a certain margin (even if only overclocking) will force a need to have XP reinstalled, to the best of my knowledge.

I'm assuming you've OC'ed your CPU ?

[Sir. Cheesecake]

Nope changed a whole new motherboard and cpu. that would probably explain it then.

[Bobcat]

Originally Posted by Sir. Cheesecake

Nope changed a whole new motherboard and cpu. that would probably explain it then.

Yes, not to mention, if your OS is legal, you'll need to buy a whole new copy, because your product key is locked to your previous motherboard.

But you don't have that kind of problem, do you now ?

[golfman560]

I'm pretty sure only about 2/5ths of the people that have XP are legal.

[Bobcat]

Originally Posted by golfman560

I'm pretty sure only about 2/5ths of the people that have XP are legal.

Yeah, it's sad to know that I own 3 copies of XP Pro myself...

[Namakan]

Originally Posted by Bobcat

Yes, not to mention, if your OS is legal, you'll need to buy a whole new copy, because your product key is locked to your previous motherboard.

But you don't have that kind of problem, do you now ?

you can get the fixed if you contact MS i think

[SnowControl]

Originally Posted by Bobcat

Yes, not to mention, if your OS is legal, you'll need to buy a whole new copy, because your product key is locked to your previous motherboard.

But you don't have that kind of problem, do you now ?

Thats only with Vista. I have two XP/MCE disks, probably used them on some seven or eight computers. No problems.
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[Bobcat]

Originally Posted by SnowControl

Thats only with Vista. I have two XP/MCE disks, probably used them on some seven or eight computers. No problems.

No, it goes with XP too, unless you're using a Corporate edition with several licences, in which case you're most likely using a cracked one, because I had the same thing...

[Raiden]

Either that or your RAM is suddenly bad/incompatible.

Just backup all the junk you want by setting the HDD with WinXP on it to a slave drive, hook it into another computer and copy the crap you want/need. Then set it to master again, go to new comp, reformat the drive from your BIOS and reinstall Windows.