Hello,
Starting today around 4:20 p.m. est. my computer recieved a blue screen. after that blue screen i turned off the pc and restarted. from that point it would boot up past the BIOS, after checking the memory, and then would go the windows loading screen. for some reason it stays on the windows loading screen (the screen that says "Microsoft Windows Xp and has the bar with three little blue bars flowing through it.) i let it sit there for a maximum of 30 minutes and it would not go past that.
I rebooted the pc in safe mode, which bypasses that loading screen, and it let me into safe mode. from there, figuring that it would be some sort of hardware/software issue, i tried to get ride of some of the software on my computer. most of the software i took off (avira anti-virus, daemon tools, etc.) when i tried to take off AVG anti-virus i got another blue screen, i copied down that blue screen error and i recieved 0x000000f4 (0x00000003, 0x8A687B58,
0x8060566E) also recieving the dump attached below.
i tried taking out my two ram sticks (one is a gskill 2gb ddr2 533mhz the other is a 1gb ddr2 533mhz) and using them one by one in each of the four ram slots, and also using both them in a mixed variation of ram slots.
i tried to run a chkdsk /f but at 5% on the first verification i recieved the same bluescreen.
i tried to change my page filing to the recommended max, which would have been 4606 (3701 x 1.5), but my OS limited me to 4096.
i tried to open avg to see if there was possibly a virus in the quarantine section, but upon opening it i recieved the same bluescreen.
I'm not sure why any of this is happening the only thing that was installed today was an AVG update this morning. My AVG is 7.5.
my OS is windows xp home edition.
my motherboard is a MSI, not sure of the board number.
i have a SATA wester digital 250gb hard drive.
If anyone could help it would be much apprieciated
Sincerely,
Kevin.
Edit: most of the above that was tested was from
techspot.com/vb/topic51365.html
Starting today around 4:20 p.m. est. my computer recieved a blue screen. after that blue screen i turned off the pc and restarted. from that point it would boot up past the BIOS, after checking the memory, and then would go the windows loading screen. for some reason it stays on the windows loading screen (the screen that says "Microsoft Windows Xp and has the bar with three little blue bars flowing through it.) i let it sit there for a maximum of 30 minutes and it would not go past that.
I rebooted the pc in safe mode, which bypasses that loading screen, and it let me into safe mode. from there, figuring that it would be some sort of hardware/software issue, i tried to get ride of some of the software on my computer. most of the software i took off (avira anti-virus, daemon tools, etc.) when i tried to take off AVG anti-virus i got another blue screen, i copied down that blue screen error and i recieved 0x000000f4 (0x00000003, 0x8A687B58,
0x8060566E) also recieving the dump attached below.
i tried taking out my two ram sticks (one is a gskill 2gb ddr2 533mhz the other is a 1gb ddr2 533mhz) and using them one by one in each of the four ram slots, and also using both them in a mixed variation of ram slots.
i tried to run a chkdsk /f but at 5% on the first verification i recieved the same bluescreen.
i tried to change my page filing to the recommended max, which would have been 4606 (3701 x 1.5), but my OS limited me to 4096.
i tried to open avg to see if there was possibly a virus in the quarantine section, but upon opening it i recieved the same bluescreen.
I'm not sure why any of this is happening the only thing that was installed today was an AVG update this morning. My AVG is 7.5.
my OS is windows xp home edition.
my motherboard is a MSI, not sure of the board number.
i have a SATA wester digital 250gb hard drive.
If anyone could help it would be much apprieciated
Sincerely,
Kevin.
Edit: most of the above that was tested was from
techspot.com/vb/topic51365.html