Guild Wars and The BLUE SCREEN of DEATH!!!

I have been playing world of warcraft on my dell inspiron 1200 for a few months and it runs perfectly smooth no problems what so ever and very little lag even in large cities but a friend of mine wanted me to join him in guildwars so i just started out with a 14 day free trial and used his disk to install it on my computer and the trial keycode to play it i get into the game it runs smooth very little lag and dosent seem to have any problems what so ever..... i can run around and play for an estimate of 20 to 30 mins and when i try to sell something or use a collector and i get the BSoD and it says a screen full of things but dosent stay on long enough for me to read it when my computer restarts it happens only in guildwars no were else i can play WOW for hours and hours and it never has happened i have no idea what could be wrong. i have read a few diffrent fourms and thaught maby it could be over heating i tried that and it dosent seem to work... i have akso uninstalled guild wars a few times and re installed it and that dosent seem to work if anyone could possibly help me it would be very thankful

Dell Insperion 1200 (specs)
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name CHICK3N
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Inspiron 1200
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 13 Stepping 8 GenuineIntel ~1296 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A01, 1/29/2005
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
Total Physical Memory 768.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 446.95 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB

this is straight from the system information

 

I don't think you have enough memory to play that game. Doesn't it require 1 gig? I could totally be mistaken.

What graphics card do you have?

 

here are the reccomendations for Guild Wars and to be exactly honest i dont know what video card i have but i do know that it has to be atleast 32MB it does run World of warcraft Prefectly with no problems what so ever

Recommended System Specs:Guild Wars
Windows XP/2000/ME/98
Pentium III 1GHz or equivalent
512 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9000 or GeForce 4 Ti Series with 64MB of video memory
500 MB free hard drive space
Internet connection

and the required video card for guild wars is 32 MB

 

and just to show the system requirments for world of warcraft and it runs like i said befor perfectly

Recommended Specifications

Windows® System 2000/XP OS:
Intel Pentium® IV 1.5 GHz or AMD XP 1500+ MHz
1024 MB RAM
64 MB 3D graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5700 class card or above
Broadband Internet connection
Two-button scroll-wheel mouse

 

Something i just realized me being the guy i am and cant get enough of my games i keep trying and trying to play the game and well actually i can play it the BSoD only shows up when i try to sell what i have in my inventory or trade something things along that area i can do quest and run around with no problem i can loot just fine and really the only problem that i am awear of yet is when i try to sell and trade and such it is weird

 

try checking the forums at www.guildwarsguru.com for answers.

 

Erm, you could try updating your video drivers maybe?
Also, the error message would probably help. To stop it from going away instantly, try going to Control Panel > System > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings, and uncheck 'Automatically Restart' under System Failure.

 

ok my video card i found what it is and i tried to download the updated drivers from dell but i didnt remove my old drivers i dont know how to do that and im still not exactly sure the one i got was right

My video Card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900

my error i stoped it so i could show you it says some stuff about make sure u have attiquite disk space and tells me how to open safe mode and gave em a technical message that i wrote down wich is

Technical Message:
*** Stop 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0xBFAD59F8, 0xA939A99C, 0x00000000)
*** ialmdd5.dll - Adress BFAD59F8 Base at BFA37000, Date Stamp 42dd477E

and then it continues on saying Dumping Physical Memory and that it is complete

here are the specs of my video card at the link below and thank you all for continuing to help me it is greatly appritiated
http://www.intel.com/design/graphics/gma900/

 

Ok, Intel GMA is not a supported graphics card by Guild Wars. If you go to the site I suggested there is a workaround to get it to work but I don't know how it looks.

 

pease make sure you uninstall your old drivers FIRST before attempting to install the new drivers.

pb,out.

 

I think I know your problem, I also got this problem sometimes, not when playing gameonline but when using the internet.
When I was using firefox and Skype, suddenly there is a blue screen appear with , there are text in it but it disappear to fast. After the blue screen, my laptop restart and work normally.
There a error log, it say serious error , something about Window condition with the internet protocol. I dont know what this mean either but I think it have something to do with internet protocol, you should try to check the firewall settings or the anitivirus or spyware.
I rarely got the blue screen, just sometime.
Hope this help

 

Nah, the blue screen can mean almost anything. The only common element is that the OS kernel has screwed up.
On Linux, the corresponding error is called a Kernel Panic, which is probably more descriptive (certainly sounds catchy)

It might be caused by anything from bad drivers, bad hardware, hardware incompatibilities, bugs in the OS, overheating or overclocking

Someone showed earlier in the thread how to prevent the automatic reboot, so you have time to read the blue screen error message.