I Am Afraid I Killed My Mom's Laptop!

7angofragger · 12-08-2006, 03:47 PM

Hey, i am kinda afraid that i messed up my moms windows in her laptop. about 2 weeks ago, i borrowed it to go wardriving. i put my friends belkin wireless card in the laptop. i disabled the onboard wifi, enabled the belkin, installed the drivers, restarted, and i got the blue screen of death. i was going crazy. but i booted up in safe mode, done a system restore, and it worked fine for the rest of the day. 2 days later, i hooked up the laptop, got on MSN, checked my email, CF, and defragmended. i shut it down, and unplugged it from the power. well, it has been in the computer room for 3 days now, and i have been really busy. so last night, i turn it on. it says it wants to do a scan disk, so i was like ok. i went and got a drink, some food, and came back. it was off. i turned it back on, and after 2 passes of the xp bar on bootup, it flashed a blue screen of death for like less then a second, and then restarts. it boot up again, use last known good configuriton, and the same thing happends. I try in safe mode, it still does it. Its her laptop is for her work. she needs it and her files. what should i do??? its an HP, 17" wide screen, amd truion x2 at 2.0GHz, ati X200M 1GB of DDR. i really dont want to reformat. is there anything i could try?

PabloTeK · 12-09-2006, 11:00 PM

Ouch, I had this problem with my Mum's VAIO laptop back in June, it's a HDD error AFAIK, I think there is a corrupt file in Windows, or something to do with the fact that the drive is basically bust, try repairing Windows using the rescue CD's you should have, if that doesn't work, then I'm afraid either a format or a new HDD is in order.

P a u l

pdc76 · 12-10-2006, 06:20 AM

yeah, i'd try the restore disc if there is one, or the repair option on an xp disc.

Chaplain · 12-10-2006, 11:23 PM

Also, don't despair... geeksquad or bestbuy or something else like that can probably turn the HD into a grey drive that you can just copy from.

kof2000 · 12-10-2006, 11:56 PM

this is why i dont mess around with family computers. i mean the least that i'll do is maybe have it connected to my server and schedule it to do a backup of its files to the server so they deont cry if the drive dies or they cant access the computer.

12-08-2006, 03:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
7angofragger Silver Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Hohenwald, Tennessee Age: 20 Posts: 140	I Am Afraid I Killed My Mom's Laptop! Hey, i am kinda afraid that i messed up my moms windows in her laptop. about 2 weeks ago, i borrowed it to go wardriving. i put my friends belkin wireless card in the laptop. i disabled the onboard wifi, enabled the belkin, installed the drivers, restarted, and i got the blue screen of death. i was going crazy. but i booted up in safe mode, done a system restore, and it worked fine for the rest of the day. 2 days later, i hooked up the laptop, got on MSN, checked my email, CF, and defragmended. i shut it down, and unplugged it from the power. well, it has been in the computer room for 3 days now, and i have been really busy. so last night, i turn it on. it says it wants to do a scan disk, so i was like ok. i went and got a drink, some food, and came back. it was off. i turned it back on, and after 2 passes of the xp bar on bootup, it flashed a blue screen of death for like less then a second, and then restarts. it boot up again, use last known good configuriton, and the same thing happends. I try in safe mode, it still does it. Its her laptop is for her work. she needs it and her files. what should i do??? its an HP, 17" wide screen, amd truion x2 at 2.0GHz, ati X200M 1GB of DDR. i really dont want to reformat. is there anything i could try? __________________ Windows XP Professional MCE 4x Western Digital 250GB SATAII Hard drives RAiD 0+1 Corsair Dominator Series TWIN2X2048-8500C5D 2GB Nvidia eVGA 8800GTX Acer 20.1" LCD 5ms Thermaltake W0132RU ToughPower ASUS Maximus Formula SE Core 2 Quad Intel Core 2 Duo Quad Core Q6700 @ 2.87GHz

12-10-2006, 06:20 AM	#3 (permalink)
pdc76 Platinum Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 802	yeah, i'd try the restore disc if there is one, or the repair option on an xp disc. __________________ Intel QX9650 w/ Ultra-120 Exreme / Evga nForce 780i SLI 4Gb (2x2Gb) Corsair Dominator DDR2 1066Mhz 5-5-5-15 2 nVidia 8800GTX SLI / 22" Asus Wide LCD, 19" KDS CRT SB X-FI X-tremegamer FATAL1TY Edition w/ 64Mb X-Ram 2 Sata II 320Gb Raid 0 array, 2 Sata 110Gb Raid 0 array Super Multi Blue Blu-Ray & HD-DVD w/ Lightscribe / Floppy Antec Quattro 1000W Modular PSU / Lian-Li PC-65B case Dual Boot Vista Home Premium SP1, XP Professional SP2

12-10-2006, 11:56 PM	#5 (permalink)
kof2000 Diamond Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Oahu Age: 27 Posts: 6,273	this is why i dont mess around with family computers. i mean the least that i'll do is maybe have it connected to my server and schedule it to do a backup of its files to the server so they deont cry if the drive dies or they cant access the computer. __________________ QX9650@4.2 swiftech \|9600@3.0 9700 nt 780i \| 790fx 8gb ddr1200 \| 8gb ddr1200 2x150gb 3x1tb \|2x250gb 3x8800gtx \|3x2900xt 1gb 2x20xdvdrw \|2x20xdvdrw 15in1 card reader \|15in1 card reader ng15/g9 \|ng15/g9 1200w psu \|1200w psu 2x28" LCD \|2x28" LCD

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12-09-2006, 11:00 PM	#2 (permalink)
PabloTeK Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The Peoples Republic of Nae Butta! Age: 17 Posts: 2,371	Ouch, I had this problem with my Mum's VAIO laptop back in June, it's a HDD error AFAIK, I think there is a corrupt file in Windows, or something to do with the fact that the drive is basically bust, try repairing Windows using the rescue CD's you should have, if that doesn't work, then I'm afraid either a format or a new HDD is in order. P a u l

12-10-2006, 11:23 PM	#4 (permalink)
Chaplain New Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: New York City, NY Age: 18 Posts: 19	Also, don't despair... geeksquad or bestbuy or something else like that can probably turn the HD into a grey drive that you can just copy from.