Blue Screen of Death

[rei0]

I keep getting a blue screen of death on my desktop. I have no idea why. What information do I need to find and post to help figure out what is going on and how to fix it?

 

[te100]

use whocrashed or bluescreenview to read dump files they will give you an idea of whats causing it

 

[rei0]

it says it was caused by driver ntoskrnl.exe

 

[te100]

make sure all drivers are up to date, run chkdsk /f from command prompt, test memory sticks.

 

[rei0]

how do I test the memory sticks?

 

[te100]

if you have more than one take one out and see if you get it then replace with the other one or download memtest and run it (make a sandwich might take awhile)