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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
This is what grinds my gears about the newer entry level motherboards. They have everything integrated, which is cool until something like the sound card goes, and rather than change a 20 dollar part you're out a 100 dollar motherboard.
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Or you can just disable the integrated card in BIOS and buy a replacement and use a PCI slot.
Anyway, HD - if you are getting a .dmp file, that is a Blue Screen error log. Your computer is likely set to reboot on a stop error, so rather than seeing the blue screen, the system simply reboots. To view one of those logs requres a third party application.
If you want to see the actual blue screen, and presuming you are in XP do this:
Start --> Settings --> Control Panel --> System
Advanced tab
Startup and Recovery
Uncheck "Automatically restart" under the system failure heading
Then you will get to see the BSOD in it's frustrating glory, along with it's messages. Blue screens are almost always a faulty driver or bad memory these days.
Alternatively, you can upload one or two of those .dmp files somewhere (usually found at c:\windows\minidump), and I can read it for you and tell you what the errors are.
Edit: I fail at reading the entire thread. Hemicuda beat me to most of this.
