Pull all cards out of the machine except the Video.
Remove all the memory.
Now, with just the hard drive installed, put only the minium amout of memory necessary for XP back in and boot to ‘Safe Mode’.
If you are still getting the error, shutdown and swap the memory chips with the ones you kept out of the machine.
Reboot in ‘Safe Mode’ again.
Remove all drivers in ‘Device Manager’.(uninstall)
Reboot your computer normally and let XP reinstall any device drivers it needs. You may need your XP disk for this.
Once that is complete, reboot the computer normally and check to see if you still get the ‘Blue Screen of Death’.
If not, then shutdown and reinstall the remaining memory.(unless you had a memory error in the first boot)
Boot again and check for the ‘blue screen’.
If everything is ok, then shutdown and reinstall any network or modem cards you have.
If not, then suspect that one of the memory chips, that you just reinstalled,is bad.
If everything checks out, then reboot normally and run ‘chkdsk’ on the drive to fix any broken or ‘cross linked’ files.
Hope this helps.
Appreciated. Though the computer has Windows 2000 instead of XP, your instructions seem (at least on the surface) easy enough to follow. Still have to go look for a diagram on how a computer is set up (i.e. how the video chip, memory, hard drive, etc. look, and where they are), however.