Help please, error and stop message.

[maroondevo52]

Thank you, just away to find the CD.

[car2403]

He may be sometime

[maroondevo52]

He may be sometime

 

 

Gives a minute, Secret Santa's calling

[maroondevo52]

Hi,

 

Tried the cd, same blue screen appearing

 

Went into Bios, Boot Sequence, changed to option 4. Onboard or USB CD-ROM Drive, do I then 'remain in setup' or 'exit setup'.

[andydd]

Hi,

 

Tried the cd, same blue screen appearing

 

Went into Bios, Boot Sequence, changed to option 4. Onboard or USB CD-ROM Drive, do I then 'remain in setup' or 'exit setup'.

 

Exit and you should be given an option to save changes and exit or something similar.

[maroondevo52]

Hi,

 

Thanks, did that, put the cd in then re-boot, back to blue screen with error

[Undercover-Elsa]

Hi Maroondevo,

Might be worth burning an Ubuntu CD to both check whether it's a windows issue and rescue the files. It's a standalone op system run from CD, completely independant of windows, but you can see the contents of your drive and move files onto a usb stick.

It's brilliant! Freeware too: Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu

If you still get probs when you use that then it's def not a Windows issue.

Hope this helps,

Elsa x

[danielr]

as Roostere said earlier, I too have had blue screens of death caused by a fault CD drive.

 

you followed advice earlier to try taking out one memory stick, (of the two) and see if the error persists.

 

then you take the second one out and put the first one back in and see if the error persists.

 

carry on doing this 'swap test' if you can try unplugging the CD drive and see i the error persists,

 

then try putting the CD drive back in and see about removing the sound card (assuming it's separate and not built into the main board).

 

if there is a faulty component then testing them one by one like this should show what is faulty.

 

 

Also, whilst you might not have installed anything, windows update might have installed something, or upgraded a driver for you.

 

found a link on trouble shooting these errors

How to troubleshoot a Stop 0x0000007E error in Windows XP

[Getafix]

By booting with only 1 stick of memory you may not have sufficient for system to load XP - what was system spec of PC:?: if it's 4 years old...if all else fails you can put HDD as slave in another PC to recover data.

[danielr]

By booting with only 1 stick of memory you may not have sufficient for system to load XP - what was system spec of PC:?: if it's 4 years old...if all else fails you can put HDD as slave in another PC to recover data.

System requirements for Windows XP operating systems

 

minimum system requirements for XP is 64MB, and when it first came out it didn't run too badly on this hardware.

 

as time has gone on the requirements for a pleasurable experience when using the machine have gone up with each service pack etc. but the machine will still start and boot with very little memory,

 

since the OP is only trying to see if the computer is going to blue screen when the memory is taken out then I don't suppose they are too worried about speed.

[cazzajay]

Actually I'd say its a BIOS issue. Try hitting F3 or Del when the computer starts to enter BIOS, then find the "Restore to Default" or similar setting.

[maroondevo52]

Thanks for all the help, the computers away to a IT guy at my wifes work, should find out tomorrow if he can get it up and running again.

[maroondevo52]

Thanks again to everyone that helped, Comp now up and running again, IT guy at my wifes work recovered everything we needed from the Hard Drive and with a Dell disc from a fellow Mod, everything seems to be running fine.

 

Had a few probs with the e-mail, but now sound, received about 500 from CAG !!!

 

Thanks again, everyone.

 

Scott.