I have a question about Top 
reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000:


I started out with this computer: 
Amd Duron 700mhz 
Biostar M7VKB mobo 
320mb RAM 

and was experiencing random reboots in XP Pro. I ignored the problem on that PC b/c 
I was putting together a new one, which is: 
Amd Athlon XP 2600+ 
Asus A7N8X mobo 
512mb RAM 

and I am having the same problem as before. The weird thing is that upon reboot Windows 
doesn't recognize it as a critical failure however, it does log the error as a small 
memory dump. Upon consulting the KB, Microsoft suggested I download their debugger 
and attempt to read the dump files. This didn't really help me out. I disabled the 
auto-restart function as was suggested and the stop error said win32k.sys was the 
fault. I'm not exactly sure of what to do from here. 

Would anybody please have any suggestions on how to fix this problem? I checked all 
of the possible problems listed in the article but they are not the problem. 

Thanks

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I had this problem a year ago on my old PC, I bought a new one a few months ago and the problem just came back. The computer will restart at random about 3-4 times an hour, if I turn off the auto-restart function... instead of restarting it will blue screen. I reformated the computer, and that didn't even help. Things actually appear worse now than they did before. I have no recomendations as I've never been able to fix this problem my self. I'm going to bring my PC to the shop tomorrow.

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