Hello everyone! I'm having a rather unusual problem.
I've been using speedfan and RivaTuner for some time on my old notebook (HP Pavilion dv6000) to monitor the CPU's/GPU's temperature as well as adjust several settings. Yesterday I removed both of the programs and after a reboot - bam, a blue screen during booting up Windows XP, STOP 0x7B, probably indicating a driver problem (I remember RivaTuner asked about removing giveio.sys, as "some programs might use it", I clicked "No" [don't remove]). The same happened with the Safe Mode, it kept BSODing while loading giveio.sys. On one of the other forums I've read that renaming giveio.sys to giveio.bak or sy_ would solve the problem. And so I did by connecting the drive to the other notebook. It didn't help at all, only gave another problem - now it keeps BSODing on loading mup.sys. What should I do now? Is formatting the drive the only option?
* using a Recovery Console via Windows installer is out of the question, as this XP was a legal download from MSDNAA - I don't have that disc anymore and any other build of Windows XP refuses to work along with it. (it detects it as "an other system". And that's why I don't really want to wipe out the HDD - XP is fully legal with all the updates 'n stuff and as I'm not a student anymore I can't get it legally again)
* any option from F8 (Safe Mode, Last Known Good Configuration etc.) gives the same BSOD
* tried using Bart's PE disc, boots fine, but gives a BSOD in win32k.sys everytime you touch any key on keyboard
Notebook specs:
Windows XP Sp3 English
Intel Core 2 Duo 1,66 GHz
GeForce Go 7400
Segate 120 GB HDD
4 GB RAM DDR2
I'm really stumped with that one. Any hint or solution other than formatting the drive?
Cheers,
Crash.
I've been using speedfan and RivaTuner for some time on my old notebook (HP Pavilion dv6000) to monitor the CPU's/GPU's temperature as well as adjust several settings. Yesterday I removed both of the programs and after a reboot - bam, a blue screen during booting up Windows XP, STOP 0x7B, probably indicating a driver problem (I remember RivaTuner asked about removing giveio.sys, as "some programs might use it", I clicked "No" [don't remove]). The same happened with the Safe Mode, it kept BSODing while loading giveio.sys. On one of the other forums I've read that renaming giveio.sys to giveio.bak or sy_ would solve the problem. And so I did by connecting the drive to the other notebook. It didn't help at all, only gave another problem - now it keeps BSODing on loading mup.sys. What should I do now? Is formatting the drive the only option?
* using a Recovery Console via Windows installer is out of the question, as this XP was a legal download from MSDNAA - I don't have that disc anymore and any other build of Windows XP refuses to work along with it. (it detects it as "an other system". And that's why I don't really want to wipe out the HDD - XP is fully legal with all the updates 'n stuff and as I'm not a student anymore I can't get it legally again)
* any option from F8 (Safe Mode, Last Known Good Configuration etc.) gives the same BSOD
* tried using Bart's PE disc, boots fine, but gives a BSOD in win32k.sys everytime you touch any key on keyboard
Notebook specs:
Windows XP Sp3 English
Intel Core 2 Duo 1,66 GHz
GeForce Go 7400
Segate 120 GB HDD
4 GB RAM DDR2
I'm really stumped with that one. Any hint or solution other than formatting the drive?
Cheers,
Crash.
