Let me briefly explain how I arrived at this blue screen mess:
- uninstalled zone alarm and avg antivirus
- installed avast antivirus
- ran avast virus scan on boot. found 9 threats and deleted them.
- 1 of the deleted files was windows file. (userinit.exe)
- I was unable to log on to windows. After login, windows immediately logged of and I was back at the log-in screen. (makes sense, the userinit.exe file is missing).
I started to trouble shoot:
1,)
- Got original Windows XP CD and booted with CD. (1. select "to set up windows xp now, press enter". 2. agree to license f8 3. Press R to repair the Windows copy)
- I try to repair win copy like i described above.
- Setup is copying files and at around 50% I get a blue screen.
-> The message is "page fault in nonpaged area" and stop code is 0x00000050
(i have attached screenshot "during_xp_repair.jpg")
2,)
- Tried to install a fresh copy of win in a different direcotry. Again, during copying setup file I receive same blue screen as mentioned above.
3,)
- I did some research about the blue screen and saw that sometimes its hardware related. So, I started taking out one of the RAM pieces to eliminate possible errors. I also swapped all the ram pieces with the ram from a similar working laptop. Neither method helped.
- I swapped cpu with related laptop and that didnt make a difference. Matter of fact, with different cpu, laptop didnt even start. (which is odd, because the different cpu is actually the systems "original" one that I swapped a few years back)
4,) After playing around with the hardware stuff, the system now no longer lets me start up. I turn laptop on, it goes to Windows XP wallpaper and before it can get to the login screen I receive a different blue screen for about 1-2 seconds and then system restarts.
-> message is: "machine_check_exception" and stop code is 0x0000009C
(screenshot "during_xp_startup.jpg" is attached)
To sum up:
- blue screen during repair
- smae blue screen during fresh install in different dir
- blue screen when trying to boot
- same with safemode etc
- i also tried repaid console and did chkdsk c: /f
This is my mother in laws lapto and I simply wanted to install avast and delete some viruses (which worked great). And now I am faced with this situation.
I am not sure what else to do, since I cant even install a fresh copy without getting blue screens. I am sure I could manage to somehow backup the data, but I still need to get the thing working again.
Any help would be apprecated.
Thanks,
Florian
- uninstalled zone alarm and avg antivirus
- installed avast antivirus
- ran avast virus scan on boot. found 9 threats and deleted them.
- 1 of the deleted files was windows file. (userinit.exe)
- I was unable to log on to windows. After login, windows immediately logged of and I was back at the log-in screen. (makes sense, the userinit.exe file is missing).
I started to trouble shoot:
1,)
- Got original Windows XP CD and booted with CD. (1. select "to set up windows xp now, press enter". 2. agree to license f8 3. Press R to repair the Windows copy)
- I try to repair win copy like i described above.
- Setup is copying files and at around 50% I get a blue screen.
-> The message is "page fault in nonpaged area" and stop code is 0x00000050
(i have attached screenshot "during_xp_repair.jpg")
2,)
- Tried to install a fresh copy of win in a different direcotry. Again, during copying setup file I receive same blue screen as mentioned above.
3,)
- I did some research about the blue screen and saw that sometimes its hardware related. So, I started taking out one of the RAM pieces to eliminate possible errors. I also swapped all the ram pieces with the ram from a similar working laptop. Neither method helped.
- I swapped cpu with related laptop and that didnt make a difference. Matter of fact, with different cpu, laptop didnt even start. (which is odd, because the different cpu is actually the systems "original" one that I swapped a few years back)
4,) After playing around with the hardware stuff, the system now no longer lets me start up. I turn laptop on, it goes to Windows XP wallpaper and before it can get to the login screen I receive a different blue screen for about 1-2 seconds and then system restarts.
-> message is: "machine_check_exception" and stop code is 0x0000009C
(screenshot "during_xp_startup.jpg" is attached)
To sum up:
- blue screen during repair
- smae blue screen during fresh install in different dir
- blue screen when trying to boot
- same with safemode etc
- i also tried repaid console and did chkdsk c: /f
This is my mother in laws lapto and I simply wanted to install avast and delete some viruses (which worked great). And now I am faced with this situation.
I am not sure what else to do, since I cant even install a fresh copy without getting blue screens. I am sure I could manage to somehow backup the data, but I still need to get the thing working again.
Any help would be apprecated.
Thanks,
Florian