Blue Screen of Death

[Qaddafi]

I don't know why but whenever I play games on pcsx2 (Star Ocean 3, Rogue Galaxy, Dragon Quest 8, even FFX and FFXII) after a few hours of gameplay the emulator just freezes randomly and my whole computer crashes and I get a blue screen saying something like "Memory dump in progress" or something like that and then I have to turn my computer off physically pushing on the off button and turn it back on. It's quite annoying especially since I don't think the savestates get saved until I quit the emulator and restart it (that is, after the blue screen only the latest savestate remains that was saved before the emu crashed and before it was running) Anybody know why this happens?

[jesalvein]

looks like overheating.

try checking your CPU & mobo Temp using some piece of software called coretemp http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/