one of the major causes of BSOD's is one program over-writing the memory that a seperate program is using. So basically, its like 2 vehicles going to the same spot at the same time. You get a crash. There are numerous causes for this. It could be RAM, could be a virus, could be bad drivers, etc.
This is a huge problem with windows 9x. It is not as much of a problem with windows NT or windows 2000. I have not experienced a BSOD with windows xp.
The way windows XP works, is it will not allow a program to overwrite the memory that another program is using.
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