Michelle,

What you describe, "memory dumping", is not any option in the BIOS you can 
change, it is simply what Windows does when it crashes because it cannot 
continue. It dumps an image of the OS to disk in the hopes that someone 
knowledgeable would be able to debug it. This debug activity is beyond the 
casual user.

The bottom line is that something is crashing the OS. If you can write down 
and post the codes and text that appear at the "Blue Screen of Death", it 
might give a clue. It could be caused by an unstable device driver, faulty 
hardware, bad memory, etc.

One thing to try is to strip the system down to the bare minimum, just the 
processor, video card, minimum memory (even try a different stick of 
memory), and disks necessary to install. Pull out any other cards not 
immediately needed, and try again.


At 06:54 AM 2/8/2006, you wrote:
>I'm wokring on a Pentium 4 motherboard, socket 478, 2.40ghz. The memory is 
>1024mb (I think it's DDRmemory). Either way I've tried installing several 
>different versions of Windows to the new hard drive. However, just as 
>installation is about to complete, the terrible blue screen appears giving 
>me a message about the memory being dumped & that if I can go into the 
>bios to disable the "memory dumping", then installation will thoroughly 
>complete.
>
>Soooooo . . ..  I was wondering if anyone knew a good dos software or 
>program I could use on floppy to disable the dumping of the memory? I've 
>already gone into the Bios to see if I could make the modifications, but 
>unfortunately it doesn't allow me to change caching or the memory dumping. 
>I'm trying to prevent from having to tell this person they will need to 
>get new memory sticks for their board because they recently just bought a 
>new Western Digital 300gb hd. I honestly believe there's a way I can work 
>around this memory thing til I get the system up then I can go from there 
>with updating all the hardware with this other software I have.
>
>If anyone knows give me a heads-up on the link to download the dos 
>program. & yes the system is slightly old (as far as the board)but Gateway 
>does have the serial number of this particular model on their site, just 
>not any hardware updates for the board.

Russ Poffenberger
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