pasnip2000

HELP! i have XP but would be massively grateful if you could help me with this little big problem. Basically Blue Screen of death seems to happen randomly, seems to be getting steadily more frequent as time goes by. occasionally the whole pc just restarts and doesnt go to this blue screen but 90% of the time if it does suddenly restart it will go to this blue screen. Just now it did it and it scared me because after pressing restart it wasnt booting anything and stopped on the very first screen of the start up. So shut it down and then it worked again and booted up fine. Cant seem to pin point it to a program. Can work fine for hours using adobe premiere dealing with massive amounts of files on my 160gig harddrive and then sudenly crash opening a picture file or dreamweaver. I'm reasonably good with computers as they all say but when it comes down to insides of working and these blue screens i havent got a clue!! All i know is it could be a RAM problem or Graphics card, but that is purely a guess so i just dont know. Anyhelp would be very much appreciated. Also big thing is cant defrag the drive , leave it for about 10 mins and come back to find teh blue screen again, the hardrive has never been defraged. Since dealing with a big harddrive thort it would be best to do, but i cant! That what brings me to think its a RAM problem but i duno! HELP!!!!!!! MICROSOFT HOME EDITION xp VERSION 2002 SERVICE PACK 1 AMD ATHLON XP 2600+ 2.09 GHz Ram - 1024mb NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL is at the top Technical information: *** STOP: 0x000000D1 (ox20000001, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0xF6EA8BBF) *** USBPORT.SYS - Address F6EA8BBF base at F6E8F000, DateStamp 3f04cf17 Beginning dump of physical memory Physical memory dump complete '''''''''''''''''''''''''''' THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP. REALLY STUCK

it is defintly not the old problem coming back as i changed mboard etc, reinst win. it is defintly premiere and windows and memeory!

HI ITS ME AGAIN, THE ORIGINAL POSTER OF TEH QUESTION, thanks for all the help. well what i eventually did was... get a new mboard, new processor, reinstaled widows and wlal lovely jubly. However it has been working fine for the last couple of months, till last nite wen i thort id defrag the c: drive. came down this moring and a BSOD!!!! the first one ive seen on this new setup i have! i am using adobe premeiere 6.5 and have heard that this sort of program can muck with windws memeory configuration, and i need to partition the actual program or somthing.. any ideas?! thanks loadS!