Blue Screen mentioning Win32K.sys

I have recently been getting blue screens which I have never experienced before in XP Pro and it points to Win32K.sys, can anybody explain as to what may be causing this, also it preforms a memory dump to the Windows directory called MEMORY.DMP with a file size of 261.688 KB can this be safely deleted.

Paul

 

Not enough information Paul?
Any chance you have findfast installed?

Daizy

 

No I do not have findfast installed, what other information would be useful?

HP Vectra 500 MHz PIII
256mb ram
DC10 Plus Capture Card
10gig and 8gig drives

Paul

 

That's helpful too, yep.
I was thinking more like the actual error message.

Daizy

 

Unable to provide any more information until next crash? as they appear every couple of days, apart from pointing to WIN32K.SYS and a hex address with all "Zeros" I can supply no more info.

Looked inside "Event Viewer" but crash information does not seem to be recorded anywhere.......

Paul

 

As for deleting the Dump file, yes do a search for *.dmp and delete all that it finds. These memory dump files are no use for us end users and only waste a heap of HD space.
I have turned of this feature. R click My Computer|properties|Advanced|Startup and Recovery settings|Write Debugging Information (None). I also turn off automatically restart so you have a chance to read the Gobledygook on the BSOD before it disappears.

 

Paul

Thanks for the information it makes sense and I have turned of error reporting.

Not had a crash in the last few days, but I have changed my graphics driver (MGA-200-AGP Intergrated chip) to a one that XP likes (Certified), the only proplem I had was trying to get a OEM driver for my Vectra Vei8 as Matrox did not want to know and the HP site only supported PCI/AGP cards so in the end I installed a Matrox driver, fingers crossed that it does not give me any errors.

Paul

 

Often W2K drivers will work as a last resort as well. I have an old (4years!) 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 AGP card and I have to use the last driver 3DFX released for W2K. It's relatively stable considering the 3 or 4 error messages during the install process. The default MS XP driver seems to work OK, but no TV out support.
Gota get that Geforce 4 one of these days!