re: Blue screen
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 2:52 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Matt Jones
(152 messages posted)
Hi JCW
I just remembered my boss had said the hard drive was ticking loudly yesterday before
it would not start. hen I try to enter safe mode a black dos type screen appears
and a load of directory files fly by and then re-starts again going back to the page
of start up options. i will try the bios option tomorrow to stop it from re-starting.
Do you or anybody else out there no of a good book that would detail things like
the blue screen of death etc. Am I better off looking at an A+ course or something?
Cheers.
Thanks for your reply.
On Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 2:10 pm, jcw wrote:
>That blue screen with writing all over it is the infamous "blue screen of death"
>denoting a "stop error" or "system failure" that can be due to many things, but
usually
>problems with hardware or drivers or an interaction of hardware and software. Without
>knowing what the text is on the screen though, it's hard to say what the precise
>problem is, much less the fix.
Can the laptop boot into safe mode? If yes,
do
>so, and then follow these steps to keep the computer from automatically restarting
>upon a system failure:
>
Control Panel --> System --> Advanced --> Startup and Recovery --> Settings
>--> uncheck "Automatically restart" --> Click OK (twice)
>
When the computer does show the blue screen, get all available information,
including
>the stop error name and number (an 8-digit hexadecimal stop error code number such
>as 0x0000000A or 0x00000050, followed by four other 8-digit hexadecimal numbers
in
>parentheses).
>
>
>
>
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