Blue Screen of Death

i knew it!!!
i knew bill gates was spying on us!!!
=)

I've recently had the BSOD when inserting the SD card from my digital camera into my printer to transfer pics. I've got WinXP & Windows said the problem was the program Iomega Hot Burn (which I have)& gave me the web address for the update. Downloaded it and no problem since.

I agree with you the way you view the issue. I remember Jack London once said everything positive has a negative side; everything negative has positive side. It is also interesting to see different viewpoints & learn useful things in the discussion.

Could the blue screen of death happen by opening an email

EDITOR'S NOTE: It's usually a (seemingly) random event that causes the BSOD. But if the email contained malware or some security exploit, it could trigger it.

I'm reinstalling XP for reasons too vast to go into, but halfway through the Repair reinstall I get the physical memory dump BSOD. What the ....?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Could be a bad RAM stick, or damage to the hard drive. I'd try swapping out the RAM first.

I tried to reinstall Windows XP Plus SP2 but even after reformating the HD it wont install completely, it says drivers corrupt or cd damaged and I've tried several copies of the same disc.

when installing empire at war halfway the dvd drive failed or something so now everytime i restart the blue screen appears after logging in for 1 minute.

EDITOR'S NOTE: I'm guessing you were installing a warez version of the software. Probably was infected...

This has happened twice to my girlfriends computer, she still is under the warranty thank god, but talked to HP man and ran the whole system check thing and it seemed to be fine. The computer is going to be sent in, just wondering what could have caused it?

Is it possible to reformat a bad hard drive? I recieved the BSOD with error code 0F00:0628?

EDITOR'S NOTE: That code could be referring to a CDROM disc, or your hard drive. Hard to tell from your info. Yes, you could reformat the hard drive, and bad sectors will be eliminated from the available space. But try a repair operation first, such as Scandisk.

If you experience the BSOD problem regularly you may have a driver or software conflict. "But how do I determine what the problem is?" you are asking... ok so here is some of the answer. When your system crashes it usually creates a Minidump file of the last thing that it was working on and maybe just maybe it logged who is causing the BSOD. I found two utilities that have helped me find the solutions to some of my issues with BSOD problems.
1) Microsoft Dubugging Tools found at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging
These are great to get in depth into the exact issue (maybe thats why they provide it for developers) but you will get a headache reading all the literature on how to use them.
hint: dont forget to install the proper symbol files and configure the debugging tools to use those files.
2) Nirsoft BlueScreen viewer found at http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
this utility is very easy to use and it will read all of the crash dump files in a folder (nice if you have more than one) and give you a plain easy to read spreadshet of the issues. it shows plainly what driver/service/software failed and the bug check Stringassociated with it. With this information you should be able to either uninstall/update the afflicted software/service/driver... or... scour the internet for the issue your having. Start your search with something like BSOD if you get a ton of results maybe then search within your results for the

good luck and good hunting ;-)