memory management blue screen

What are you system specs?

I also posted this in the other thread you have.....if you have a high end (read 8800 series) video card from NVIDIA, there is a known issue with those high end cards and VISTA.  Go to Microsoft and serach for hotfix 940105 (I believe that is it) and it should help address the memory error. 

Also, if you have an XPS 420, download BIOS A03, as this is supposed to address memory issues.

My son's and my parent's computers had this problem.  I downloaded the hotfix and it seemed to work, but three weeks ago my folks got the memory management error, i went over and tried their machine playing the same game my father was playing and received that error.  I downloaded BIOS A03 and it's been almost 3 weeks and they haven't had the problem since.  Neither has my son after downloading A03, but it's only been a week at most.

Hey thanks for the response,
Well I don't appear to be using either of those series I have a:

Inspiron 1720
2038MB of ram
Dual core processor, 1.6ghz
160gb hard drive

video card is: integrated intel graphic media accelerator x3100

Well I am stumped then.  Not as easy a fix as I was hoping.  But I will check around and if I come up with any ideas, I will pass them along immediately.

Good luck....hopefully someone else will have a solution.

Thanks for the help anyway it is much appreciated. Hopefully somebody can help me out! I've read something up about ram being set at the wrong speed or voltage in BIOS, but I'd rather not play around with that without a confirmation.

ETA: Some addition info that may or may not be relevant every so often (it's happened three times in three weeks) Superfetch crashes and has to relaunch. I've also noticed a MASSIVE ammount of service hosts running (svchosts) some of them stealing up to 50,000ks of memory. I've heard large ammount of svchosts is pretty standard in vista, but perhaps they could be causing the memory crashes?

I'd be willing to try it if it might help, do you have a link to the download.  I did a search on microsoft but wasn't sure if it was the right one.

You know, I have read the virtual memory hotfix and it applies to VISTA but doesn't say anything about the cards or whatever.  You could still download it and try it and see if will install on your system.  Maybe that will help even on the x3100.  It is usually with higher end cards, but hey you never know.

I put it on my laptop and it's got a 7900 Go GS.  Didnt' have any problems installing it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940105

Don't know why it doesn't highlight. Seems that it doesn't work for me when I use Netscape. Only IE. 

I know it gives a lot of information about it, but it doesn't say anywhere that it's only for certain cards or systems.  Only requirement i see is you must have VISTA.

Try it and see what happens.  If it works great, if not then it definitely is something else.

Update: when I try to install the hotfix, windows tells me it does not apply to my system. Back to square one then.

That's great:smileymad:

 

I am running out of ideas.  But I will keep trying.

 

Well it hasn't blue screened today yet, but I've only had it on for two hours today, general surfing..

Those random blue screens are windows fault plain and simple.  How can you be using you computer and then bang blue screen and not blame windows.

Hence I posted this in the vista forum. *raises eyebrow*