okay... this is weird

[thecrecarc]

okay, i restarted my comp. it went to bios fine and started to load windows. then is gave a blue screen (not good) and said something about cant load help.dll or something. i restarted and it loaded started to load windows. then it gave me the bluie screen again but said soemthing siffrent. i said something like 000x1000 not loading or something. thing i booted into safe mode with comman but it showed a popup screen that said the same thing as the 2ND blue screen. then i booted into windows normal and it worked.




im confused. any help?

 

[w00t]

have no idea but you fixed it

 

[krcat1]

One, you could have pickup a virus or trojan.
Two, something in the memory got temporarily corrupted.

 

[thecrecarc]

okay, this sucks. i was just surfing the web and suddenlly, the same screen that poped up when i was bootig in safemode in command poped up. then a blue screen showed up and showed the same message as the 2nd time in windows. god, this is weird

 

[AtlantaBob]

Just to make sure, you have run Memtest, right?
(/end obvious suggestions)

And, just to make sure I undetstand you correctly: you booted to the command prompt and it gave you a "pop up" message? That seems.... impossible. But then again, I could just be inexperienced....

Also, any chance that the temperature might be an issue?

 

[thecrecarc]

no. i booted up to safe mode with command


the temp seems fine

 

[AtlantaBob]

How about Memtest? Also, have you overclocked it?

 

[AtlantaBob]

How about Memtest? Also, have you overclocked it?

 

[AtlantaBob]

Sorry about that. Bad internet connection here. Great for post-count though...

 

[thecrecarc]

lol. i tried memtest for 1 hr

overclok.... well, a tiny bit. like 90 mhz. i immedatly under clocked it after the FIRST error tho

 

[AtlantaBob]

Hmm... so now it's at stock speed, or actually underclocked (less than stock)?

AMD or Intel? And what Mobo? What's the brand of RAM, by the way? And the power supply?
Perhaps you can run Memtest overnight?

 

[frx218]

This happend to me when a I had a bad stick of ram. Well it was a similar problem.

 

[thecrecarc]

o ya.... the pwoersupply. maby thats the reson!


see..... a bit while ago my psu just went off. it was when my comp was unpowered. we couldnt get it to go one for more than 1 sec. so we bought some generic... compusa 250watt psu. maby thats the prob?



am xp 2200(t think its 2200..... its the one thats 1800mhz)
a pny 2700 512 ram
some aopen mobo


edit: AND my comp is acting very slow lately. even before the errors.

 

[AtlantaBob]

My guess would be the powersupply.... any chance you can replace it and see if the errors go away?
There seem to be some good deals this weekend with sales at Fry's, etc. Remember, generally, name-brand is better than wattage...

Best of luck...

 

[thecrecarc]

ya, i know name brand is MUCH imore important than wattage. but my parents wont let me spend over 25$ and they wanted a quick replacement. and we dotn have anything to replace my current psu.

 

[AtlantaBob]

Hmm... in that case, it sounds like the dredded "summer job." Good luck; perhaps there's even someone who can get you a quick fix that doesn't involve replacing the power supply...

 

[imported_rod]

Have you tried running a virus scan, spybot, adaware, memtest and prime95. If it's not the PSU, the above programs might help identify the problem.

RoD

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Yeah, just tell them your power supply doesn't work, you can get some good antec PSU's for around $50 or so.

 

[Buz2b]

You might want to boot into the BIOS and set the BIOS to Default settings. There should be a place to do that somewhere around the exit area of the BIOS. Save and exit and try this for a while.
Any chance you installed Norton Ghost v9 sometime recently?
Also, try running your system with the side of the case off. Do this after it has been shut off for a while.
Last, right click on your C drive in My computer and select Properties. Go to "Tools" in the box that pops up. Select "Check Now" button under Error Checking. Then click OK. You'll get a dialogue box that says it cannot do this until the computer restarts. Just restart and let the disk checking commence. Look at the report when it's done and check for errors and/or "bad sectors".
Oh, and if I were you I'd be writing all my data to CD/DVD/whatever you have; and fast.

 

[thecrecarc]

Originally posted by: Buz2b
You might want to boot into the BIOS and set the BIOS to Default settings. There should be a place to do that somewhere around the exit area of the BIOS. Save and exit and try this for a while.
Any chance you installed Norton Ghost v9 sometime recently?
Also, try running your system with the side of the case off. Do this after it has been shut off for a while.
Last, right click on your C drive in My computer and select Properties. Go to "Tools" in the box that pops up. Select "Check Now" button under Error Checking. Then click OK. You'll get a dialogue box that says it cannot do this until the computer restarts. Just restart and let the disk checking commence. Look at the report when it's done and check for errors and/or "bad sectors".
Oh, and if I were you I'd be writing all my data to CD/DVD/whatever you have; and fast.

Have you tried running a virus scan, spybot, adaware, memtest and prime95. If it's not the PSU, the above programs might help identify the problem.

1. the default settings of the bios underclocks the cpu by ALOT and over clocks the ram
2. i ran virus scan, spybot, and 1 hr of memtest
3. i dont have any TOO vauable data

 

[Buz2b]

Originally posted by: thecrecarc

Originally posted by: Buz2b
You might want to boot into the BIOS and set the BIOS to Default settings. There should be a place to do that somewhere around the exit area of the BIOS. Save and exit and try this for a while.
Any chance you installed Norton Ghost v9 sometime recently?
Also, try running your system with the side of the case off. Do this after it has been shut off for a while.
Last, right click on your C drive in My computer and select Properties. Go to "Tools" in the box that pops up. Select "Check Now" button under Error Checking. Then click OK. You'll get a dialogue box that says it cannot do this until the computer restarts. Just restart and let the disk checking commence. Look at the report when it's done and check for errors and/or "bad sectors".
Oh, and if I were you I'd be writing all my data to CD/DVD/whatever you have; and fast.

Have you tried running a virus scan, spybot, adaware, memtest and prime95. If it's not the PSU, the above programs might help identify the problem.

1. the default settings of the bios underclocks the cpu by ALOT and over clocks the ram
2. i ran virus scan, spybot, and 1 hr of memtest
3. i dont have any TOO vauable data

That's strange. I've never had a problem with default settings overclocking the RAM. Are you saying that you have to underclock your RAM in your "normal" settings? Underclocking the CPU is not a worry at this point in the trouble shooting. Getting to the bottom of the trouble is more important now.
Boot to safe mode and run the virus scans, etc. Make sure to turn off System Restore before you do.
What about Ghost? I asked that not to save your data but because it has a serious issue with XP SP2 that can cause similar problems.
Try tie error checking I mentioned and also running with the side of the case off. Good Luck.