My friends laptop boots up everytime saying that windows didnt shut down properly last time, choose which option to boot with safe mode safe with command safe etc and normal every selection you choose xp boots up, then right after the xp logo a quick blue screen with numbers comes up....shuts his laptop off, and reboots it, rinse repeat process i figure its a virus anything salavagable without formatting/reinstalling OS? i know my post is pretty general
Almost every BSOD is a hardware or driver issue. First try this, it will work about 60% of the time: AntiVir Rescue disk Using a clean computer download and burn a rescue disk from here: http://www.free-av.com/en/products/12/av...cue_system.html Then use this guide to clean your machine: http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=82163 If it doesn’t work – see here -> Fix nearly any BSOD http://pcsupport.about.com/b/2008/12/20/fix-nearly-any-blue-screen-error.htm Luck be with you… 2oG
This will work for xp also to remove redundent drivers,it's any wonder BSOD's don't happen more often when you see how many are left behind...lol..more so if you attach external stuff.IGNORE COMMENT REGARDING VIDEO,it's all here in text,Oh yeah to stop auto restart do it from the DOS screen safe mode safe mode command prompt safe mode networking DISABLE AUTO RESTART IT Dojo: Find and delete hidden Windows Vista and XP device drivers Bill Detwiler: Sorting out device driver problems in Windows can be a tricky. Windows Vista and XP often retain old drivers even if you upgrade or change hardware. Unfortunately, these old, and sometimes hidden, drivers can cause hardware conflicts or make your system behave erratically -- even if you're no longer using them. I'm Bill Detwiler, and in this IT Dojo video, I'll show you how to find those old drivers and root them out of your system once and for all. Manually locating all the devices drivers on a Windows system can be a challenging task. Fortunately, in the Windows Device Manager, there is a feature you can enable that allows you to locate and remove old and unused drivers. Now, before I get to the steps, let me add one caveat. In this video, I'm using steps specifically designed for Windows Vista. But the general process will also work in Windows XP. For example, the way I describe opening the System Properties window in Vista is slightly different than the process you would use in XP. With that warning out of the way, let's get to the steps. In order to configure Device Manager to display non-present devices, you will need to add a special Windows Environment Variable, which is basically a string that contains a system property such as a drive, path, or file name. To add the variable that we need, access the Start menu, right-click on Computer, and select the Properties command. When you see the System window, select the Advanced System Settings link. Dismiss the UAC message, and when the System Properties dialog box appears, click the Environment Variables button. When you see the Environment Variables dialog box, you'll see that it contains two panels titled User Variables and System Variables. Environment variables added to the User Variables panel will be available only when that user logs on. Environment variables added to the System Variables panel will be available to all users. To avoid limiting ourselves to one user account, we'll add the new environment variable to the System Variables panel. So, click the New button and when New System Variable dialog box appears, type: devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices in the Variable Name text box and type 1 in the Variable Value text box. Click OK to close the New System Variable dialog box and then again to close the Environment Variables dialog box. To view the non-present devices, access the Start menu, right-click on Computer, and select Manage. When the Computer Management window appears, select Device Manager. Once Device Manager is active, pull down the View menu and select Show Hidden Devices. Now, when you open the various branches within the Device Manager tree, you see device icons that appear translucent or faded. These are the non-present devices. To remove the device drivers for any of the non-present devices, simply right-click on the faded icon and select the Uninstall command. Once you are done, close Device Manager and just for good measure, restart your system. I hope this tip helps you get to the bottom of some nagging driver issues. Have you had other problems related to drivers in Windows Vista? Let us know if there's tip or tweak you're looking for in the IT Dojo blog, and we'll see if we can find a solution. And as always, for more teachings on your path to becoming an IT Ninja, visit itdojo.techrepublic.com. And please let us know if this tip was helpful.
Saw the same problem last week trying to upgrade a fista to xp It was the sata drivers for the hdd missing.. or corrupt. See if there is a sata (achi)-ide setting in the bios.. sometimes booting in ide mode will get things working enough ti investigate what is wrong.
just do a chkdsk c: /f , that fixes almost everything related to unexplained abnormal bootups (especially if the computer was working fine before and you didn't install any new software/drivers). More than likely you have corrupted system files.
And just how do you do that if you can't get far enough into the boot sequence for windows to schedule one? What is needed here is a bootdisk which has NTFSCHK on it.. ubcd perhaps? Why I'm thinking sata drivers is because that's exactly how the acer I was upgrading to xp was behaving.
