"Serious Error" Help debugging it?

[GeForceX]

A friend called me over to find out why his system was crashing over and over all the time. Windows XP loaded and there was the "The system has recovered from a serious error" message. So much could be happening behind that serious error message so it's difficult for me to pinpoint the problem. His Windows XP has no viruses or spyware and from what I can see, his system is very organized. I suspect a hardware failure. I know there a debugging program that one of you guys may have. I don't thus the reason asking for help. ;)

Error Signature:

BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : 80000003 BCP2 : 81A47515 BCP3 : 81BE6A84
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1

Error Report Contents:

C:\DOCUME~1\THOMAS~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER8826.dir00\Mini010906-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\THOMAS~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER8826.dir00\sysdata.xml

Mini010906-01.dmp: http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2JRJ0TZM3O2MM0N84ZRZDS5AH9 <download>

Could not find sysdata.xml in search.

That's pretty much all I have. I have no access to the debugger (nor do I admittedly know how to use one) so I hope you guys can help me out. :) Thanks.

-J.

[tazzmissionx]

1000008e... in most cases it is a hardware issue due to drivers, so I would start off making sure that the drivers are updated, usually vid card the main culprit, or it's the BIOS or chipset. So looking at the the dump, we are dealing with an ATI video card and a
Asrock K7S41GX motherboard which uses the SiS741GX chipset. So I would tackle those first, if driver/BIOS updates don't work, then focus on hardware itself, if new hardware was installed recently, check that out, also it would be a good idea to run memtest to rule out memory and a hard drive diag program to rule out your hard drive also.

If that don't fly, run "sfc" at command prompt to make sure windows system are not corrupted or jacked by some virus/spyware ect..