i got this from GREG CHAPMAN (Rtrd) in Tech Trax. He posted this as a possible solution to the problem.
To workaround the problem we did employ Microsoft’s registry hack. Click Start, then Run and type regedit. Click OK.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows\ and change the value of the ErrorMode key to 2.
Since this key is queried any time a hard error is received, there is no need to reboot. Obviously, it’s best to make this change only after all other efforts to identify the problem have failed
Zarruk, February 2009