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Help Needed: Blue Screen of Death (Vanity)
1 Oct 2002
| tictoc
Posted on 10/01/2002 6:33:19 AM PDT by tictoc
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I'm at my wit's end.
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posted on
10/01/2002 6:33:19 AM PDT
by
tictoc
To: tictoc
I'd try unplugging all non-essential peripherals, and trying the installation again.
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posted on
10/01/2002 6:39:17 AM PDT
by
Mo1
To: tictoc
you may have formatted your hard drive, but did you "debug" it.
goto www.bootdisk.com, click on "utilities" on the right side, then scroll down to the section called "cleaners" and you'll find "zap/wipe".
Use zap to reset your hard drive. (it's a little debug script that makes resetting a breeze).
The nice thing about bootdisk, you can download a bootdisk of 98, then install zap/wipe on it. Nice for somebody using 2000 without a copy of win98 available. =)
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posted on
10/01/2002 6:39:35 AM PDT
by
PokeyJoe
To: tictoc
It sounds like a hardware issue.
I've found that persistent blue screens usually wind up being caused by a faulty motherboard, memory or such.
It shouldn't do what it's doing on a fresh install.
Did you reformat the HD? If not, clear your bios and reformat the HD.
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posted on
10/01/2002 6:40:20 AM PDT
by
AAABEST
To: tictoc
Look out for incomming Mac rants!
You probably need to go to Micro$loth with this one. Windows internal functions are a mystery even to people as bright as FReepers.
To: tictoc
It is not my fault.
To: tictoc
I'll be interested in the answers you get. I had blue screen problems/during re-installion of win2k/ due to a virus. Virus in the boot sector.
If you have a spare hard drive you could try it with your equipement. IOW the problem may reside in your present hard drive.
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posted on
10/01/2002 6:45:01 AM PDT
by
dennisw
To: tictoc; Blue Screen of Death
Help Needed: Blue Screen of Death (Vanity)Seen this?
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Damn, you beat me!! ;)
To: tictoc
I sounds like a bad hard drive to me.
To: Blue Screen of Death
ROFLOL!!!
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posted on
10/01/2002 6:46:41 AM PDT
by
lsee
To: PokeyJoe
Thanks for the pointer to what appears to be a highly useful site.
I'd like to hold off on wiping the entire disk because I'm hoping to keep the data files in my other partition.
However, if nothing else helps I guess I'll have to bite that bullet :-(
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posted on
10/01/2002 6:46:50 AM PDT
by
tictoc
To: tictoc
INCOMING!
Linux penguins rumbling to these coordinates!
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posted on
10/01/2002 6:47:56 AM PDT
by
smith288
To: tictoc; AAABEST
If problem is on your HD you might need to do a low level format on it. This procedure is known as writing zeros to the HD. It wipes it clean back to factory fresh. IBM/WestDig/Maxtor have this program on their installation floppy and also available for download on the internet.
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posted on
10/01/2002 6:48:40 AM PDT
by
dennisw
To: tictoc
What color blue is it?
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posted on
10/01/2002 6:50:34 AM PDT
by
Consort
To: dennisw
Virus in the boot sector.I have a sneaking suspicion that it might be some such thing.
For what it's worth, the trouble started when I was on Yahoo! Games playing Internet chess. Maybe my opponent somehow reached into my machine via the Java applet to crash it and damage it beyond repair. (I know, I'm paranoid and should seek help.)
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posted on
10/01/2002 6:51:24 AM PDT
by
tictoc
To: tictoc
(I know, I'm paranoid and should seek help.) It's always good to know the root causes.
To: tictoc
Tictoc, I'm not a techie (but I'm married to a puter guy), however, whenever I've gotten BSOD it's because I don't have enough RAM. You say you've got 128...imho, it's NOT large enough.
To: tictoc
It might be that you are not setting the partition to NTFS type file system. My source comfirm that you need NTFS partitioning for Windows 2000. Check all your partitions as your system might be trying to load critical files on a non NTFS partition.
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