pmwright@home.com, you wrote an answer I like to the Blue Screen, but I have a question relating to it. What if your dumpexam.exe file is corrupt? Is it downloadable somewhere? Below is the answer that was given to the BSOD in NT.
That’s the infamous BSOD (blue screen of death) and can be caused by a hardware problem, a corrupted file, or (most likely) a bad device driver. The first thing you’ll want to do is go to Control Panel-System and then Shutdown tab and check the box to enable it to write a memory dump file.
Then, the next time it happens, use the dumpexam.exe tool from the NT Resource Kit to analyze the memory dump file. That will tell you the address at which the fault occurred and also provide a list of what moduleswere loaded at what address at the time. With this information, you should be able to narrow it down to the particular piece of software installed and it’s likely to be a driver with a filename like vgadrvr.sys.
If you would rather try somethingdifferent than that, my experience has been that the culprit is the video driver until proven otherwise. Try and download a new driver and see if that helps.
paul