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I keep getting blue screens. I have a dell 8400 it's been a quite stable machine until lately when i started getting blue screens. I've tried a reinstall of windows twice, and keep getting them. I've ran the dell tests, on my resource cd the computer hardware seems to be fine. I've ran memtest on both sticks for about 8 hours and no errors.

I've had multiple blue screens each with different stop errors (of course some repeat)
Including: Stop 0x000007e, stop: 0x0000008e, stop: 0x000000d1, stop: 0x0000000a,
stop: 0x0000050, stop: c000021a win login process terminated unexpectantly. occasionally.

Most of the time, these blue screens happen when I'm not even at the computer, generally it's during the night when nothing is happening.

Some of the files listed in these blue screens are: ati2qag.dll (i installed the latest ati drivers direct from ati), tcpip.sys, ntfs.sys, ati2dvag.dll, srv.sys.

Current specs
dell 8400
3 ghz p4
1 gig ram
ati x300 video card
160 gig hard drive
320 gig hard drive (recently added, but after i started getting blue screens)
sony cd-rw
nec dvd-rw (recently added, but after i started getting blue screens)

chipset intel 925x/xe

as far as i know i'm running the latest drivers for the motherboard, and the video card.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
I've included some of the dumps if anybody is interested.

Let me know if there's anything i missed out.
 

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I ran a debugger on your files and have attached the logs. I am unable to reach any conclusion from them. When you have multiple types of BSOD errors with each pointing to a different possible cause, it's hard to troubleshoot.

I am currently troubleshooting a single board computer (it's like a MOBO on a card that plugs into a dumb backplane) that has had around 60 BSOD over five months. I tried Memtest86 (passes), Prime95 (always crashes). Since I have seven identical servers with identical cards and cloned hard drives, I tried moving it around... fails in every server I install it in. I just replaced the 2GB ECC RAM and am holding my breath (I'll see how it works even though Memtest86 said the old RAM was good).
 

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Ya i ran prime 95 for awhile as well, however i don't get any BSOD. It's rarely when i'm at the pc and even rarer, for the computer to be under stress (prime 95 or [email protected]) and blue screen. I've been considering a faulty power supply, could a faultly power supply cause any of these issues? It's the factory one from dell, 350 watts.

I've included some older dumps if anyone is interested.
 

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