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01-26-2011, 10:50 AM
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#1 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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| HELP! My Windows won't Start!
About 2 days ago, my laptop was working fine.
All of a sudden it restarted randomly....... 
Just when the black screen with my windows XP finished loading.
It jumps to this blue screen 
This screen acts about 1 second, then it powers off cuz it sounds like it's forced. I have tried all options about F8, safe mode, last successful run, everything... Now Im looking for help...
btw I have not dropped it or have any new installs for the past year.
Windows 
y u no longer?
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01-26-2011, 10:52 AM
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#2 | | Diagonally parked in a parallel universe
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Blue Screen of Death! Eek.
Is your laptop still under warranty?
Does it still power off in safe mode?
Do you have boot discs?
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01-26-2011, 10:54 AM
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#3 | | The RS Freebie guru
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So it does it even in Safe Mode?
If so, your options are pretty limited... since you're running XP, at this point I would probably try for a Repair Installation of Windows... but no guarantee that will fix it.
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01-26-2011, 10:55 AM
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#4 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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I'm getting a similar problem but right before the screen where you pick your user, it goes black and only the mouse shows up. Safe mode is possible though.
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01-26-2011, 10:59 AM
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#5 | | Diagonally parked in a parallel universe
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Originally Posted by InvisibleSoul  So it does it even in Safe Mode?
If so, your options are pretty limited... since you're running XP, at this point I would probably try for a Repair Installation of Windows... but no guarantee that will fix it. | Or even get through it. I had this happen recently and I had to have the whole hard drive replaced. Fortunately it was still in warranty.
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01-26-2011, 11:01 AM
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#6 | | Zombie Mod
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At least you have something to Google: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
I think one of the ways I fixed this issue was to run a chkdsk /r on the hard drive. Of course, you'll have to remove it, and attach it to a bootable system.
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01-26-2011, 11:09 AM
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#7 | | The RS Freebie guru
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Whoops, I'm browsing without images turned on, and didn't see the screen shot. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302
Yeah, a chkdsk /r may very well fix the problem.
One option is to mount it as a slave to another computer...
Or you can boot up with an XP installation CD to do it.
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01-26-2011, 12:05 PM
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#8 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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^^ What he said..
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01-26-2011, 02:28 PM
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#9 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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had that happen to my old main drive....turned it to a slave and found out it was on its last leg of life..had to rescue all my files from it and put it on my secondary. Tossed the old HDD afterwards.
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01-26-2011, 06:30 PM
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yeah hard drive is unmountable, prob got some bad sectors here n there or its starting to dieeee.
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01-26-2011, 06:44 PM
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#11 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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01-26-2011, 10:59 PM
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#12 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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Thanks guys for all of your replies. I think with the given information I will be able to fix it. And I will let you guys know how it went.
p.s. I did not know about the blue screen of death...
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01-26-2011, 11:06 PM
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#13 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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BSOD has been the bane of Windows users since NT first came out.
I used to have a really great screensaver that simulated a BSOD... it would throw a random bluescreen error, then pretend to reboot, then do a fake checkdisk and find all kinds of errors... put it on a server behind my buddy's desk, he'd turn around every now and then to find the machine "crashed"... so he'd reboot it and go back to work... of course, it would start up fine, but after 10 minutes the screensaver would kick in... he'd turn around and see it "crashed" again. Dude was losing his mind trying to figure out why it was crashing  
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01-26-2011, 11:20 PM
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#14 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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Originally Posted by Soundy BSOD has been the bane of Windows users since NT first came out.
I used to have a really great screensaver that simulated a BSOD... it would throw a random bluescreen error, then pretend to reboot, then do a fake checkdisk and find all kinds of errors... put it on a server behind my buddy's desk, he'd turn around every now and then to find the machine "crashed"... so he'd reboot it and go back to work... of course, it would start up fine, but after 10 minutes the screensaver would kick in... he'd turn around and see it "crashed" again. Dude was losing his mind trying to figure out why it was crashing | LOL
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01-27-2011, 02:10 AM
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#15 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Had the same type of problem with my old laptop. Ended up being the HD. Wasn't that hard to replace the HD. I would firt DL Hirens boot cd and run some hard disk diagnostics to make sure it's the HD. http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd
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01-27-2011, 05:28 AM
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#16 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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