Help! Is this a RAM problem?

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My computer's been messed up, it restarts out of nowhere
(usually during high disk activity), and when I get it to
wokr again, the error reporting pops up with the following
error: STOP: 0x0000009C (0x00000004, 0x00000000,
0xb2000000, 0x00020151)

Reformatting/reinstalling Windows seems to alleviate the
problem for a while. But I can't be reformatting or
reinstalling twice every week.

Please help.
 
This behavior occurs because your computer processor
detected an unrecoverable hardware error and reported it
to Windows XP. To do so, it used the Machine Check
Exception (MCE) feature of Pentium processors or the
Machine Check Architecture (MCA) feature of some Pentium
Pro processors. The error may be a result of any of the
following:
System bus errors.
Memory errors that may include parity or Error Correction
Code (ECC) problems.
Cache errors in the processor or hardware.
Translation Lookaside Buffers (TLB) errors in the
processor.
Other CPU-vendor specific detected hardware problems.
Vendor-specific detected hardware problems.
 
Check the hard drive with a full surface scan, it could be
the hard drive has sectors going bad and as the drive
becomes fragmented and instructions are written to bad
sectors which are not read correctly the computer crashes.
Reformatting and reinstalling fixes this until the disk is
written to again.
I'd back up data to CD and consider a new drive.


| My computer's been messed up, it restarts out of nowhere
| (usually during high disk activity), and when I get it to
| wokr again, the error reporting pops up with the following
| error: STOP: 0x0000009C (0x00000004, 0x00000000,
| 0xb2000000, 0x00020151)
|
| Reformatting/reinstalling Windows seems to alleviate the
| problem for a while. But I can't be reformatting or
| reinstalling twice every week.
|
| Please help.
|
|
 
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