Hello, I have just built my first pc and everything works ok but when i try to make the pc do a few tasks (e.g downloading and listening to music) it crashes and sometimes gives me the blue screen of death with a big error message. I get the feeling it COULD be a memory problem  and i have just tried swaping the ram about and stuff with no luck    I read i should disable the BIOS memory but cant seem to find the option.

I am using Award software with BIOS version f2 and cant seem to find any help anywhere on the internet for it.

If anyone could help me out that would be great 

"Disabling the BIOS memory"

It is no wonder you can't find that option.

Did you diagnose RAM/HDD?

Did you install security software? Hi Raptor, lol im quite new to all this but got to start somwhere eh.

No i dont think i did diagnose RAM/HDD is that what im meant to do? and im not sure if i did install security software i cant remember seeing it on the motherboard disk anywhere, but ill have another check. You won't find any on your motherboard disk.

Google, download and install:

AVG Free
Adaware SE
Windows Defender

And yes, you should diagnose RAM/HDD.

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287HI, thanks Raptor for those links but i couldnt understand what they was for, i have got my pc specs together to see if they might beable to help, so here they are:

System Information
Operating system: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (5.2, Build 3790)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Sseries GA-945GM-S2
System Model : AWRDACPI
BIOS: Version f2
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo Conroe E6420
Intel 945G Express Chipset
Thermaltake Blue Orb 2 heatsink/fan
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Page FILE: 429MB used, 2061MB available
Direct X Version: Direct 9.0c

Graphics Card
NVIDIA Ge Force 7300 GS

PSU
Thermaltake Purepower 680W

Hard Drive
160gb Seagate barracuda SATA 2

I think thats about it, if you need to know anything else then please let me know. I have a Thermaltake case with 3 case fans. Thanks AGAINI also wrote what the blue screen of death says, this is what i get:

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent DAMAGE to your computer.

If this is the first time you have seen this stop error screen restart your computer. If this screen apears again follow these steps :

Check to be sure you have adequate disk space, if a driver is identified in the stop message, disable the driver or check with the manufacturer for updates, try changing video adapters.

Check with your hardware vendor for any updates, disable BIOS memory options sush as caching or shadowing, if you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press f8 to select advanced startup time, and then select safe mode

Then it gives a big technical information code, im not sure if it would be of any use, but that's all of it. I downloaded updates from Gigabyte and when i tryed to install them i got an error message that said cannot start or run due to incompatability with 64-bit versions of windows. Please contact the software vendor to ask if a 64-bit Windows compatible version is availiable. So im not sure if its gigabyte that im meant to contact about that, so ill try and get a phone number and ill ring them tomorow. But im sure thats not the problem. Any thought are well apriciated. Thanks
That big long technical code would indeed help...copy it down exactly and post it here... Quote from: patio on April 24, 2007, 04:36:50 PM

That big long technical code would indeed help...copy it down exactly and post it here...