About a week ago, my laptop began to experience technical issues again, it's happened two times prior. I'm using a refurb [I]Dell Inspiron 1750[/I], btw.
[img]http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/dell-inspiron-17-black-frontfacing-450.jpg[/img]
I turned off my laptop one night, went to sleep, awoke, turned it on, and I was greeted with this:
[img]http://cdn.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sshot20091217020232.png[/img]
I selected: "[B]Launch Startup Repair (recommended)[/B]", though, it didn't work, seeing as how it wasn't letting me connect to the internet or whatever. So, I went here:
[img]http://en.community.dell.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/3518/7752.d7.JPG[/img]
After letting it run for a good 25 mins, it told me that my hard-drive was experiencing issues. I turned off my laptop, and removed the hard-drive; I couldn't really find anything wrong. I re-sat the hard-drive, turned my laptop back on, and everything was fine. However, just to be sure, I took it into safe-mode, and system restored it to a point before a java update I had which was a day prior, thinking that could've messed something up. Once that was finished, I rebooted the laptop, and started to do the shit I usually do. However, it began to run very sluggish, and eventually the laptop took a shit, and took me to a blue-screen. I tried everything again, and it did the same thing.
[B]This is the blue-screen error:[/B] [I](Not the exact error, but the *** STOP: 0x000000F4 is shared)[/I]
[img]http://www.thepcfixerclan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/BSOD.png[/img]
So uh, yeah, the fuck. I'm thinking either the hard-drive is going bad, but the fact that [B]I'm running this in safe-mode w/ networking[/B] at the moment leads me to believe otherwise.
Sounds like a ruined Windows registry. Dell is known to have these weird features added to the
pre-installed image. Maybe you should re-install Windows.
Also, I googled the error code of your BSOD, it means some application has been brutefully terminated everytime you get the BSOD.
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;40921807]Sounds like a ruined Windows registry. Dell is known to have these weird features added to the
pre-installed image. Maybe you should re-install Windows.
Also, I googled the error code of your BSOD, it means some application has been brutefully terminated everytime you get the BSOD.[/QUOTE]
Are you serious? That's lame. Thanks for the info though, mang.
Is there a way that you know of where I can determine which application is being terminated?
Not at all. It can be any application crashing. And when the application is already crashing or being terminated you can't find out.
Or that is, as far as I can tell. You could try: Go to Control Panel, tab administrative tools, and open the event viewer. This shows all the minor / severe / critical events that has happened overtime.
In the Event Viewer, open the tab Windows Logs, and in your case Application. Just look for information named critical. Then you should find out which application is breaking Windows.
But don't get discouraged by all the errors you find in here. It's nothing serious, even the healthiest computer get's tons of ''critical''
[editline]6th June 2013[/editline]
Oh also, you might want to scan your hard drive for errors.
Download this:
[url]http://www.hdtune.com/files/hdtunepro_550_trial.exe[/url]
When downloaded, open the tab Error Scan, un-check Quick Scan if it's checked and let it run.
You can use your laptop when doing this.
Also make sure to test your memory, it can be anything weird, either hardware or software related?
[url]http://www.memtest86.com/downloads/4.3.0-Beta/memtest86-usb.img.zip[/url]
Put this on a external storage device, let the laptop boot on the USB device and let it run.
It definitely sounds like reinstalling Windows would help quite a bit. It basically means that a vital syatem process has crashed or been killed. If you want to try it, killing system processes until your computer goes down might lead you to which one it is.
sorry for the suuuuper late bump, completely forgot to respond to this. alright, so, something has changed since i've posted this. upon entering diagnoses, and running the typical scan, i now get an error that reads:
"[i]Error Code 0146.[/i]"
"[i]Error Code 2000-0146[/i]"
i've done a little research, and typically, this pertains to the hard-drive failing. however, in some of the cases i've read, the computer itself isn't able to boot up normally. i'm still using safemode w/ networking, no problem. if it helps, here's a little other info:
1) boot the computer normally.
2) takes quite awhile to log in, and get to my desktop. (five mins at max)
3) things run a little smoother from there, but things are still very sluggish.
now one of two things happens from here:
[B]1)[/B] computer begins to heat up quickly, then i hear a very distinct click from within the laptop, then the computer hits a blue-screen.
[B]2)[/B]i'll try to start up a program, usually Steam, the computer then takes forever to respond. once Steam finally opens, it stops responding, the computer's screen then goes black, however, i can still move my cursor. i restart the computer, head into safemode, and just continue from there.
note: within safemode, i can only play a few games, such as Game Dev Tycoon. however, once I try to open Steam, the computer usually crashes, or just won't open Steam at all. same thing for Lightroom. however, i can use Photoshop. dunno how much that will help, just giving different programs i can/can't use to help provide a better indication as to what may be the issue.
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;40922237]
[editline]6th June 2013[/editline]
Oh also, you might want to scan your hard drive for errors.
Download this:
[url]http://www.hdtune.com/files/hdtunepro_550_trial.exe[/url]
When downloaded, open the tab Error Scan, un-check Quick Scan if it's checked and let it run.
You can use your laptop when doing this.
Also make sure to test your memory, it can be anything weird, either hardware or software related?
[url]http://www.memtest86.com/downloads/4.3.0-Beta/memtest86-usb.img.zip[/url]
Put this on a external storage device, let the laptop boot on the USB device and let it run.[/QUOTE]
trying the first one as I type this, will edit when it's finished, and post the results.
i'll try the second once i find my flashdrive.
edit:
my HDD was about one hour and 47 mins in, and it found two blocks that had errors. it was about 67% done, then my laptop blue screened. i'm going to try again.
edit edit:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/20agkNT.png[/img]
did a quick scan for the fuck of it. i didn't feel like waiting almost two hours again, it stopped in the same place, and wouldn't scan any further. could every part of the HDD past this point be corrupt? or is something just fucking up within the order of things?
What does it say on the health tab of HD tune?
To me it looks like the hard drive is failing
It goes without saying that you should backup anything important ASAP
[QUOTE=techtuts0;41858485]What does it say on the health tab of HD tune?
To me it looks like the hard drive is failing[/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/CVUeZSn.png[/img]
fuck.
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;41870955]It goes without saying that you should backup anything important ASAP[/QUOTE]
good idea.
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