Well, the computer didn't blow up, but I think it came close. Lately, we've been having a random shutdown problem, and we'd hoped we'd solved it with a new GeForce 6600GT video card and downloaded the new drivers ... a whole 24 hours go by without a random shutdown! Huzzah! Then, last night ... you guessed it. Random shutdown. Then, today, before we had a chance to do anything ... random shutdown. After the reboot, we get THIS message from Computer Hell:
"Your system has recovered from a serious error."
Here are the *THIRTEEN* error codes that I copied from the pop-up error notifications.
BCCode : e3 BCP1 : 86560BF8 BCP2 : 86441390 BCP3 : 866AB298
BCP4 : 00000003 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ER0569.dir
00\Mini101
605-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ER0569.dir
00\sysdata
.xml
BCCode : 1000000a BCP1 : C1200038 BCP2 : 00000001 BCP3 : 00000000
BCP4 : 8050298A OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ERf4e0.dir
00\Mini101
805-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ERf4e0.dir
00\sysdata
.xml
BCCode : 1000007f BCP1 : 0000000D BCP2 : 00000000 BCP3 : 00000000
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ERb9c7.dir
00\Mini101
805-02.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ERb9c7.dir
00\sysdata
.xml
BCCode : 100000ea BCP1 : 865B06B0 BCP2 : 864C04E0 BCP3 : F7A0BCB4
BCP4 : 00000001 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ER213b.dir
00\Mini102
005-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ER213b.dir
00\sysdata
.xml
BCCode : 4e BCP1 : 00000099 BCP2 : 0000DE5F BCP3 : 00000007
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ERa909.dir
00\Mini102
205-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ERa909.dir
00\sysdata
.xml
BCCode : 1000007f BCP1 : 0000000D BCP2 : 00000000 BCP3 : 00000000
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ER10ac.dir
00\Mini102
205-02.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ER10ac.dir
00\sysdata
.xml
BCCode : 1a BCP1 : 00041284 BCP2 : DAE56001 BCP3 : 000057E4
BCP4 : C0E00000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ER616b.dir
00\Mini102
405-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ER616b.dir
00\sysdata
.xml
BCCode : 1000000a BCP1 : 00000000 BCP2 : 00000002 BCP3 : 00000001
BCP4 : 8051E106 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ERceed.dir
00\Mini102
405-02.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ERceed.dir
00\sysdata
.xml
BCCode : 1000000a BCP1 : F8250CBC BCP2 : 00000001 BCP3 : 00000000
BCP4 : 8050298A OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ER1142.dir
00\Mini102
405-03.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ER1142.dir
00\sysdata
.xml
BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : 80526B94 BCP3 : F76BBC5C
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ER8f3f.dir
00\Mini102
405-04.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ER8f3f.dir
00\sysdata
.xml
BCCode : 10000050 BCP1 : C2798EE6 BCP2 : 00000001 BCP3 : 805272E8
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ERdbd7.dir
00\Mini102
505-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ERdbd7.dir
00\sysdata
.xml
BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : 80623365 BCP3 : B8CF6918
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ER4fcf.dir
00\Mini102
705-02.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIRA~1\LOCAL
S~1\Temp\W
ER4fcf.dir
00\sysdata
.xml
PLEASE, for the love of dogs, can someone make sense of this mess before we build a sacrificial altar in the backyard for the computer?
Oh, and could I go way beyond all normal hopes of us ignorant dorks who beg for help .... and ask that whoever answers *NOT* tell me how stupid I am? I know how stupid I am. Trust me on this.
Thank you! Bless you!