Windows 7: screen lock = force re-boot

I was sailing smooth but last 2 days I am getting random screen locks and then have to force re-boot.



I looked at my minidump file "last modified date" and it shows 7/30/2010 - does that mean that windows did not crash - but the screen locked up anyway???

Also noticed that tonight when it locked up, some music i had playing kept playing till I force quit the computer. (don't know if that means anything)

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OK here is the only one in the folder.

the question was also about the date of the md...


as the date of this md is not current

(7/2010 is when I had a series of crashes that turned out to be reseating memory to fix) now I have totally different problem.)

i have had the same thing tonight with a system that has been fine for the last two weeks. all the sudden its using a ton of unaccounted for memory and cpu and then itll just hard lock and i have to hit the reset button.