• HELP! Old Shitty Laptop Has Blue Screen!
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Hi my old and really shitty Dell laptop has a blue screen on start up. I have tried rebooting using safe mode and all of the other start up options but still have a blue screen! Here is a picture: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/b8mm70c.jpg?2[/IMG] I don't want to mess with any setting or change anything because I don't want to break it so I'm asking for help from the experts or people who know how to solve this issue. Please don't troll me and tell me to do something that will make the problem worse. Anyway thanks in advance!
Unmountable boot volume? For an error like this, it sounds like a file system that's been damaged or something in the BIOS needs to be changed to do with UDMA. You'd want a Windows XP CD at hand for this fix, read through [URL="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302"]this[/URL] and try the suggestions there.
Do I put the disk in while the blue screen is up?
[QUOTE=Tarcan;41724015]Do I put the disk in while the blue screen is up?[/QUOTE] Taken from the page: [QUOTE] If it's a BIOS settings problem then load the 'Fail-Safe' default settings, and then reactivate the most frequently used options such as USB Support. If it's a damaged file system case then:- 1.Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive, and then restart the computer. Click to select any options that are required to start the computer from the CD-ROM drive if you are prompted. 2.When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console. 3.If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the installation that you must access from the Recovery Console. 4.When you are prompted, type the Administrator password. If the administrator password is blank, just press ENTER. 5.At the command prompt, type chkdsk /r , and then press ENTER. 6.At the command prompt, type exit , and then press ENTER to restart your computer. This takes a bit longer, but the system should boot back into Windows.[/QUOTE] This should work, just spam R when it's in Setup.
That error is usually caused by missing disk controller/chipset drivers drivers. There are two ways to fix it: 1) Go into the BIOS and look for the drive mode (AHCI, RAID, etc.) and change it to IDE or legacy. This will make Windows not crash, but it will also degrade performance. 2) Use the Windows installation CD to do a repair. Right when the installer starts, it'll say "Press F6 to install additional drivers" (which you'll need to do) and it will come up about halfway through loading drivers and ask you to provide a floppy driver disk. You'll need to get the IDE/SATA drivers and the chipset drivers and load them here. After that, you can do the repair as normal and it should fix the BSOD.
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