Blue screen

Albion221

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Today while using firefox 4 my PC suddenly froze then crashed with a blue screen. I just had time to read something about it closing to protect windows and the PC reset. Its been okay since so it may be a one off problem. So i was wondering,

Would such a crash produce an error report and if so where

Are there any free programs that would do a basic test of the components in case there are any hardware problems.

My setup
My system specs:
Processor Manufacturer: AMD
Processor Type: Athlon II 2 X 250
Motherboard : Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3
Operating System Windows XP Pro SP3
SATA HDD 500GB
System RAM: 2Gb
Video Card Manufacturer: Nvidea
Video Card Model: GForce 8600 GT
Video Card RAM: 1GB
Video Card Driver Version: 196.62
Sound Realtek onboard Latest Driver

 



Look in the event viewer.