hi guys, i have a problem wit my laptop, the specs are at:
http://laptopmag.com/Review/HP-Pavi...4900.htm?Page=0

When i turn on the laptop, it says :
SMART failure predicted on hard disk 0: HITACHI_DK23FA-40-(PM)
WARNING: immediately back up your data and replace05h) your hard disk drive. A failure maybe imminent.
Press F1 to continue

when i press F1, it says:
NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

so guys what can i do, i am lost in this matter because i hardly use my laptop besides for college work or aol instant messenger, so what do u suggest i do?any help would be greatly appreciated.

that link doesnt work sorry.. but i'm guessing its a hp pavilion 4900 series laptop?

I think thats a major clue right there... your hard drive is about to fail, and hence corrupted your windows files as well to a point that it wont let it boot.

Options:
- try and find out if you can get a HDD diagnostic utility that is compatible with the Hitachi brand HDDs (theres a list of them on this forum somewhere, sorry i dont have the link on me)

-get your hands on a winxp disk, then boot to recovery console
run chkdsk /f and sfc /scannow

-0 format the hdd, then put windows back on it

-if its under warranty then send it for repairs

-if its not under warranty, and you're up to opening up the laptop, just find and replace your hdd with another compatible one (maybe bigger size if you want ), usualy a 2.5" hdd.. or send it to a laptop repair shop.

If you have important data on there, you'll have to get it off somehow.. one such methods is to take out the hdd and plug it into a different machine as slave, but im not too sure that is going to be effective or not

thanx for ur help, now i guess i have to replace my hard drive, but atleats now i know what needs to be done, thank you, i jus have another quick question for u, if i buy another hard drive, can i install windows professional xp on it?

you can install anything you like on it

just make sure your licence key for winxp is a valid one.. you can even use the one that came with your laptop...

I have just bulit my first computer and everything worked when i turned it on, but i also recieved the same blue screen when i tried to install windows. when it was about to start the setup it goes straight to the blue screen. So i took it to best buy to the geek squad and they said it would probably be the hard drive. so i bought a new one and installed it and low and behold the same thing happened again. so the guy at best buy said he could run a diagnostic to determine what it was but for 80 bucks! i said no thanks since i just spent quite a bit on the system. any ideas will be greatly appreciated!

what have you tried in terms of troubleshooting?

try windows repair?
try go back to barebones setup running minimum setup [mobo, cpu, power, audio/visual, 1 hdd, 1 ram] and see if it does any better

how do i do the barebone setup? and how do i run windows repair?

Windows Repair:
Boot up with your Windows XP cd, and let it load like you do if you wanted to install windows. On the first page it comes to after checking hardware, there will be some options. select R for Repair.

Take a look here for more info. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

To go to barebones setup you need to unplug your PC from the power and open it up.
Unplug every other card/device that you don't need, so in the end you have the 1 HDD, a stick of ram, connection for your video and audio, and your motherboard and every one of them has power too.

May i ask for your specs as well?

well i cant do the windows repair because i get the blue screen before i get that far. i have a pentium D 3.2ghz, mobo is an intel D975XBXLKR, 2 gigs ddr2, 160 gb sata, ati radeon 512mb x1600 pro, and a dvd rw of some kind.

First post; found this forum in search of an answer to the BSOD problem I'm having.



Just got a new Intel motherboard and processor, D945GPM motherboard and Pentium D D840 3.2GHz, with SATA hard drive, and when trying to install XP Pro, get this BSOD every time it gets to the point where it says, Starting Windows.

Tried updating the BIOS, which was successful, to the latest 8/17/06 version, but no change.
Tried disconnecting the SATA drive and installing an IDE, but no luck with that either.

When I tried an installation of Vista Ultimate, it went through with no problems, which makes me hopeful it's not defective hardware. I'm not ready to go with Vista, so I want to get it working with XP.

A possibly unrelated symptom is that the CPU processor temperature as reported by the BIOS hardware monitoring screen shows about 80 deg C, with a Masscool fan and thermal compound applied. When I run a utility called CPUID, it shows temps in the range of 52 degrees C. Contacted Intel and they suggested resetting the CMOS and recovering the BIOS, which didn't change anything. They said there have been a few reports of the BIOS monitor reporting high temperatures, but haven't been able to duplicate it themselves.

The Intel Express Installer CD didn't seem to have SATA drivers on it, though a RAID driver was included, which I tried using the F6 option during install, without any sucess.

Longwinded first post, but hopefully someone's come across this before and could suggest some pointers-

Thanks~!
Wingerr

Kinda interesting; wonder if it's some kind of incompatibility of Pentium D's with XP. Sounds almost the same as my setup, except I have a D945GPM and only 1G DDR2, and using integrated video.

CrackD182: As i've said, try installing it barebones, so take out that extra stick of ram, and use onboard video if you can. Don't forget you need to insert the third party drivers for your SATA HDD by pressing F6 while its booting the winXP cd.

Wingerr: Its says its faulting at PCI.SYS, which is part of some chipset drivers or something.. check out maybe http://support.microsoft.com/?id=319136 ? Also, Re: temp problem, you may have a faulty sensor.. its known to happen, but won't effect anything except the safety shutdown trigger, if enabled.

Both of you's: If you can get into Windows at all, navigate to the C:\Windows\Minidump folder and post up 5-6 of the most recent ones on your next post.
Winger create a new thread and post them up there, so i dont get confused

I can tell you now, unless you got a dodgy Pentium D chip then it won't realy matter at all, since drivers for winxp only run the motherboard, which is usualy the fault before looking at the CPU, since it has everything else attatched to it in one shape way or form...

Mate , I had the same problem ... Hardware problem..Blue screen = Hardware problem.. I had a problem with one of my hard disks. Check yours and think what else can be guilty for that situation.

I kept getting this blue screen and would not load up with my SATA drive. I installed the RAID drivers and it loaded up.

This is my specs:

Intel D945GPMLKR
Pentium D 840 3.2gGHz DT 800FSB
OCZ 1024MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz
GeForce 7300 GS PCI 256DDR2
Windows XP Media Center
Onboard sound
500 PSU

I haven't tried installing the latest bios that were released 9.11.06, but I will try that tonight. My question is that for some reason when I try to run games like Battlefield 2, City of Heroes it seems a bit sluggish. BF2 I was running at 800x600 and it was sluggish.

My older machine spec:
Abit IC7-g mobo
P4 HT 2.6
Audigy1
1024MB pc3200 DDR1
GeForce 6800GT AGP

Ran BF2 1024x768 high on all setting ran like a champ. Just wondering if you guys had these simliar issue and got them resolved.

This issue has been discussed plenty of times.. to sumerise what most people find their troubles point at:
-weak psu not giving enough power for the system to run efficeintly enough
-drivers not updated
-directx not updated
-game patches?
-too many other programs hogging the system resources..
-temperatures (sometimes)
-havn't performed a system maintanance for a while (dusting insides, chkdisk /f, defrag etc)

So have a look through those and see how you go. Question: does it lag in anywhere else like other applications/games or windows itself etc?

After the installation of the latest bios I saw a somewhat improvement, checked all mobo drives and others were up-to-date.

I think I may want to try an OS swap and see how it runs on XP Pro... although I don't think this might be a problem its worth checking out.

Yes. Try using the correct slash character - windows uses the forward slash to indicate a command option so what you should have entered on the recovery console is "chkdsk /f" not "\f" and/or "/p" not "\p"

Hi All,

I am new to this forum and would like to be an active participient

I am facing a similar problem with error messages
i get an error like

"STOP 0X0000007E<followed by some more similar number>" on a blue coloured screen

This has been the problem for last 4 months.
I have reinstalleed the OS several times, but the problem remains

My pc specs are

80 GB HDD + 10 GB
256 MB RAM
P4 2.80 GHz HT

Can some one help me out..
its urgent
Thanks in advance

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330182

Post minidumps if available.
Run memtest as linked below in my signature.

I got a similar 0x7e error on a PC that came into my shop today. I got past it by entering recovery console and renaming the intelppm.sys driver. That allowed me to complete a repair and fix the issue. Hope this helps.