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Blue screen of death help
Got this up – no changes made recently just failed to boot up tried a couple of times normal and safe mode no difference – any suggestions other than binning it?
Thanks in advance – John
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John, lots of things can cause this to happen, even XP updates.
First thing to try is to enter the bios (normally F2 or DEL at start up) and select the optimal/delault settings. Normally found in the exit option on the top row, save the changes and reboot.
If that fails then you should try doing a search online for "unmountable Boot Volume" there are a few tutorials online that will explain things far better than I can.
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The last time i saw this was when i was running win2000, it was caused by a damaged system file, i just rebooted from the cd with the original win2000 cd and selected to repair operating system… none of my files were lost.
You maybe able to the same with other operating systems.
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Andy, your right it was probably a DLL file that was damaged, but there are other options you can try before you go down the repair from system disk route. The other problem John may have is that a lot of computers over the last few years don’t come with system disks.
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yes martin no disk or recovery disk 🙁 just read you can repair from another disk though
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John take the drive out and use that box I gave you, you can then grab all the info of that disc mate
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clean the fan out 🙄 I had a similar problem and found it was over heating, gave it good clean and works 100% again. Just a thought if it’s an old PC.
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Rich will do that if I cant get it fixed
warren it cant overheat in my office brrrrrrr 😀
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quote John Harding:Rich will do that if I cant get it fixed
warren it cant overheat in my office brrrrrrr 😀
you’ll be surprised, if the fan isn’t working or clogged up the processor will get hot and you get a blue screen (even in a cold room) I only suggested it because you haven’t changed anything so might possibly be something mechanical/electrical and not system/software.
My fan was running but was so dirty it wasn’t actually blowing on to the processor, it would over heat even before it booted up so not something that happened after a while but almost immediately (yes it was that dirty in there 😳 :lol1: )
good luck (I hate PC’s 😉 )
Here, stick this on as your wallpaper, it might help. 🙄
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😀 😀 I will have a look warren
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John, did you try to boot from the last good configuration that worked option? It won’t be an overheating issue but won’t harm to clean the fan anyway, should be done from time to time anyway.
Did you not find any tutorials on the web? Should be some somewhere, using a different disk to repair can work but sometimes causes driver problems.
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At the risk of being spotted for a PC geek, I’d recommend Windows XP users download & use a program called BartPE (stands for ‘Preinstalled Environment’). here:
It’s absolutely free & will allow you back into a completely crashed computer where you can either take copies of all your files before wiping, restore missing .dll files, clean viruses etc. etc. It also allows you to run disk copy software to more easily make a mirror of your operating system partition.
It basically builds a mini version of your operating system & will fit onto a CD or USB stick.
Hope this helps some people. Not sure if there is anything for Windows 7 that does the same as not tried this with that OS yet.
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i had this before… google helped me…. i had to make a change to a file or something like that.
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quote James Breeze:At the risk of being spotted for a PC geek, I’d recommend Windows XP users download & use a program called BartPE (stands for ‘Preinstalled Environment’). here:
It’s absolutely free & will allow you back into a completely crashed computer where you can either take copies of all your files before wiping, restore missing .dll files, clean viruses etc. etc. It also allows you to run disk copy software to more easily make a mirror of your operating system partition.
It basically builds a mini version of your operating system & will fit onto a CD or USB stick.
Hope this helps some people. Not sure if there is anything for Windows 7 that does the same as not tried this with that OS yet.
That’s a very handy utility… thanks
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You could try Spinrite
http://www.grc.com/intro.htm
Expensive if your only going to ever use it once, But as i have about 40 hard-drives i use regularly and boy does it save the day.and will work on anything -
One thing I didn’t say was that ideally you need to run BartPE BEFORE your computer crashes so that it can create the PE from your computer.
Not a big problem if your PC has already crashed as you can create it on another PC & use that to rebuild yours. be careful of just replacing things like .dll files with generic or downloaded from the internet as they be out of date.
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