A very useful (and simple) tool for viewing the contents of a "dump file", e specially without having the debug symbol library installed, is Nirsoft's BlueScreenView:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html Note that reading the results, even in "plain English", doesn't always point to a "smoking gun". I would, if I were in your shoes, definitely accept the help of some of the experienced people on the list. Good luck and 73, Mike Alexander - N8MSA amsct...@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Clafton" <rclaf...@riroc.com> To: "Nick Pugh" <quadp...@bellsouth.net>, flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 9:40:30 AM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] help with flex 5000 Hi Nick, It suggests a Firewire Driver or Firewire H/W issue. The best way to diagnose would be to process the blue screen dump file. Take a look at this. Feel free to contact me off list and I will help you. http://elliottback.com/wp/how-to-analyze-windows-xp-bsod-minidump-files/ Regards -- Richard A Clafton | the brITish guy | W5\G7EIX RIROC - Hosting - Development - Technology http://www.riroc.com | rclaf...@riroc.com "Jack of all trades, master of none, though often better than the master of one." -----Original Message----- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Nick Pugh Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:35 AM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] help with flex 5000 My flex running on xp and get the blue screen of death causing a reboot. Dudley think it some hardware problem in my computer. The computer does fine until I turn on the Flex 5k. The question is how to trouble shoot the problem? Thanks in advance nick _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/