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Ok, So i have a problem, the title explaining it really.

My main computer has decided to bluescreen me whenever i turn it on. I was just wondering if any of you guys know how i would go about fixing it. For the time being i'll be using my broslaptop, which is less than idealbut oh well.

Thanks in advance

Sam

Have you tried booting in Safe Mode? All else fails, pop in your OS disk and boot to that and reinstall. It is hard to tell with that little information. As it could be anything.

Does it get past the "Loading windows" screen or does it go straight to the blue screen of death when you turn it on? If it gets through the windows loading screen then you have a corrupt logon.exe file, if it does not even get past the windows boot screen then you have a corrupt system file and will have to reinstall MS Windows...

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

~David

Two things...

Is your monitor's refresh rate correctly matched to your graphics card refresh rate/resolution.

Second, unplug all peripherals except keyboard and mouse.

As a final thought, backtrack and remember anything you did/installed prior to the crashes.

David R. wrote:Does it get past the "Loading windows" screen or does it go straight to the blue screen of death when you turn it on? If it gets through the windows loading screen then you have a corrupt logon.exe file, if it does not even get past the windows boot screen then you have a corrupt system file and will have to reinstall MS Windows...

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

~David

It gets to the loading screen, then when that is done it flashes blue and the begins to boot to the loading screen over and over again

Stick in the OS CD and try and repair the installation. If that fails you'll have to reinstall.

If you're a linux efficionado, like me, then you'll be able to load up a CD based OS and get your data off. If not, then you might be able to use a second hard drive to install the OS and grab the data off.

All depends on how important your data is before you have to reinstall.

If i can get on with safe mode where do i go from there?

Sir_Digby_Chicken_Ceaser wrote:If i can get on with safe mode where do i go from there?

Read what I wrote

I have but ive have't installed any new hardware or software for donkeys ages, needless to say touched any settings.Don't know where to begin

Is it giving you a classic Blue Screen of death or just a blank blue screen? If it's a BSoD, what's your Windows version, your update history, and your virus/firewall protection like? You see, there are a few old viruses that will BSoD a Windows box on boot up just for fun.

If all else fails, you can safely boot it using a Live CD Linux from a magazine cover (Ubuntu is nice - a Live CD boots form CD and never installs anything on the hard disk) and copy any files you want to keep to a USB pen or a CD-R before blowing it away and re-installing Windows. If you have networking set up and have a second machine, Ubuntu will mount a Windows share to make the copying process even easier.

I have had this before. I dont remember exactly which one but...
as soon as it turns on press either F1, F2, F3 or F4 once every second, and that usually works for me. I am thinking 3 or 4 are the key ones. once you press one keep with the same one, dont switch back and forth.

hope that made some sense. I used to have to do it for my neighbor when it happened to him, then I finally fixed the problem for good.

With a big helpfrom Lady of Mystery i think it may be on its way to working.After eventually getting safe mode to work I'm running a scan on my c drive for errors, should be done soon.

Don't give me the credit, it was Dave who helped you. I wouldn't know where to start.

He told me to ask you how it went by the way?

The scan ran and it deleted a few invalid indexes, and then after about 3-4 hours of scanning it just blacked and then turned itself of, the the scan started again. I'm just gna pop it into a computer shop i think in case i break it even more

Cheers

Digby be very careful who you leave your computer with, a lot of people get ripped off. People get told that their hard drive was damaged beyond repair and had to be replaced, this is very rarely the case. If you have a windows or recovery disc you should reformat your hard drive, because thats what a repair shop will most likely do. For info on this just google 'reformat hard drive'. It sounds scaret, but it is actually very easy to do.