what on earth might have happened?

[JScalfani]

Earlier tonight suddenly when i tried burning a cd i got a blue screen saying physical memory dump. Some of you might have read this from my earlier post, but there is a new twist to it. I didn't do anything to my computer i never ended up running the repair i just got frustrated shut her down completely and went out for an hour and smoked a couple butts. I came back and she starts up fine now. She detects all the drives and she boots up fine. Does anyone know what might have happened so i can prevent this in the future. A sidenote nothing in my system is overclocked if that is what you are wondering. I am not sure if there is overheating or what. i have a amd athlon 1800xp running at 1.53 ghz and the chip temp is 43 degrees celcius. temp inside the case is 80 degree farenheit. Could my problem be over heating if anyone has any ideas please help a clueless guy out because i am just stumped at what could have caused this.

 

[bozo1]

Knowing the actual error would help. Memory dump just means that the system crashed and it was writing the contents of your RAM to a file for debugging purposes. (No use to anyone but the actually OS programmers trying to decipher the problem.) What service/program/etc crashed should have been a part of the message you saw.

 

[JScalfani]

the only thing it said was a bunch of numbers and letters then it said accessed at then a bunch of numbers and letters and underneath it all it said begin physical memory dump

 

[WarCon]

Check your error logs to see if you can isolate what caused the problem.......assuming this is XP.

In the Event Viewer in Administrative Tools.