Originally Posted by powerpig

The blue screen is a hardware failure. The first thing I would do is check the cooling fan on the cpu chip. You have to take the case off to do this. Second is to check the ram sticks. If you have two, pull one out. If there is still a problem, swap the other one. If there is still a problem, it's the motherboard. It's very rare that two sticks of ram will go bad. If the computer boots fine once it's cooled down, it's the cpu fan. Hope this helps.