omega 24 v6
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| posted on 9/12/10 at 11:23 PM |
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Laptop help is it dead??
Well after installing a new touchpad everything was just fine for 2 weeks. Then it was lockking up etc after upgrading to avg2011 ( yes I've
seen the thread). So a fresh install of XP Home and all is good again. All my programmes and files put back on and it was fine again for a few days.
Then it starts coming uo with the BSOD and critical errors etc ( can't remember what exactly was the message ). It always restarted Ok and went
fine after that.
Now tonight it does it again and its on a loop with restart after restart. It wont boot from the recovery cd rom and now I'm lost what to do
next. Any ideas??
You can access the bios and all seems Ok and the tools section allows you to check the disk and it says its OK as well.
Machine is a compaq pressario V4000 with all my megatune/tunerstudio files on it ( have them elsewhere but on an old pc in storage
HELP PLEASE
If it looks wrong it probably is wrong.
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pekwah1
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| posted on 9/12/10 at 11:30 PM |
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exact error messages would help but just sounds like a dead os.
when booting, keep pressing f12, this should bring up the boot menu just in case it's ignoring the cd rom, you can select it manually this way
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 9/12/10 at 11:32 PM |
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the error message just flashes up and it goes off ( any way of pausing it?)
Oh and it won't start in safe mode or dos mode or any fecking mode???
[Edited on 9/12/10 by omega 24 v6]
If it looks wrong it probably is wrong.
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Dan.
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| posted on 10/12/10 at 12:34 AM |
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run memtest on it to see if its a memory problem would be my first port of call, failing that could be the hard drive not likely to be much else
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jabs
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| posted on 10/12/10 at 07:38 AM |
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Try the Hiren CD, just goole "Hiren CD download". It's got all the utilities you'll ever need
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RazMan
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| posted on 10/12/10 at 08:42 AM |
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Can you reset the bios to 'safe defaults' or something like that?
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 10/12/10 at 11:21 PM |
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Well its going again BUT it looks like there has been a prob with the wireless card/board as it now will not work even after reloading all drivers as
before. The wireless switch is not working/lighting up so I gues its a power issue.
The ethernet connection still works ok so I'll be able to update things through that.
thanks all for your comments/help.
If it looks wrong it probably is wrong.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 11/12/10 at 03:39 PM |
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Sounds like an IRQ conflict to me.
Personally unless Windows is essential I would just stick Mint Linux on it.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 11/12/10 at 04:19 PM |
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BT - you sound like a scratched record! 
...but I agree entirely - if you can use a Linux distribution for everything you need to do then it's well worth making the jump. I use Mint on
my main home machine, but the PC is dual-boot so that I can use Windoze XP for those programs that just won't work in Linux. I probably boot
into Windoze once every 2 weeks...
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