BSOD From Excel Spreadsheet?

[imhungry]

I was working on an excel spreadsheet and then encountered a circular error, a few seconds later I got the BSOD.

Since then, everytime I try to boot up it'll get to the login screen for XP. I login and my desktop (background only) begins to load, before I even see any icons or have any control I get the BSOD and it reboots.


If it means anything, I have control of my mouse cursor on the XP Login (user password page) screen, but I can't click anything, only move the cursor. I have to press enter to login.

Any help anyone?

 

[Paperlantern]

So it boot loops and wont even get into windows? Did i read that right? See if you can get in under safe mode first. If you can, turn off the auto reboot, right click my computer, advanced -> startup and recovery -> settings -> and remove the check from automatically restart. If you are able to do that, try starting windows normally again so you can get an idea of the error, sometimes BSODs will have all capital letter words separated by underscore error messages that give a tiny clue to the problem, such as IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, or UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. If you get one, report it here. If its a generic one we can go from there.

Question though, you say you got a circular error, do you mean a cyclic redundancy check error? CRC?

 

[Raincity]

So it boot loops and wont even get into windows? Did i read that right? See if you can get in under safe mode first. If you can, turn off the auto reboot, right click my computer, advanced -> startup and recovery -> settings -> and remove the check from automatically restart. If you are able to do that, try starting windows normally again so you can get an idea of the error, sometimes BSODs will have all capital letter words separated by underscore error messages that give a tiny clue to the problem, such as IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, or UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. If you get one, report it here. If its a generic one we can go from there.

Question though, you say you got a circular error, do you mean a cyclic redundancy check error? CRC?

A circular error in Excel refers to incomplete equation for the cell. Sounds like Excel sheet was really taxing your system resources when you encountered the crash. As already posted try booting into safe mode first then try a system restore. A new XP install may be in order if you’re encountering memory leaks.