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intelfanboy88

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I have never had any problems with my computer, but under normal operation today I received a blue "screen of death" (windows 98 style) from XP and after restarting it will not load XP under any conditions. The bios passes fine but after that, a blank screen. The hard drive seems to be searching (the light is on and it is audible), but nothing is happening. I have tried: setting defaults in the bios, booting in safe mode (I can't even get to the windows boot options anymore), and booting from the XP cd. None of these things have worked! What is going on? My system is in my signature.
 
I had this problem. I can't remember how to solve it because my memory sucks but whne i remember ill post.
 
I think your memory i.e. RAM of your computer is no more. Borrow a RAM from your friend and try to boot your system if it works, you know what you have to do. If it don't. REINSTALL XP on the system.
 
i have had this problem before. i reinstalled XP and i was fine, but about a month later it happend again. i found it to be my hard drive going bad. Also it happend to a friend of mine, and it was the motherbord. so it can be many different things.
 
wwhen this happened to me i ended up reinstalling windows (which was hard because it wanted to give me the blue screen when booting from disk). I still don't know what the problem was, it wasnt my HDD though it is fine.
 
I see you have a WD HDD. I will place money on that being the culprit. WD is famous for two things. *click click click* and wiping out the MFT arbitrarily. It sounds like the latter. I would try another drive.
 
all of your suggestions make sense, however, after leaving a WD lifeguard scan running, I rebooted and now it is fine...? I am not saying that the scan fixed anything because all it was doing was scanning and it said it did not find errors. But all day it has been fine. It is bothering me that my computer is potentially unstable and I'm afraid it will happen again. Any new ideas in light of this development?
 
intelfanboy88 said:
all of your suggestions make sense, however, after leaving a WD lifeguard scan running, I rebooted and now it is fine...? I am not saying that the scan fixed anything because all it was doing was scanning and it said it did not find errors. But all day it has been fine. It is bothering me that my computer is potentially unstable and I'm afraid it will happen again. Any new ideas in light of this development?
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Next time, try to right down the error code and message (usually on the bottom) of the blue screen. This will help you identify it for future reference.
 
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