Black Screen of Death--Trap Exception

[longrun]

When I rebooted my Toshiba notebook with XP SP3 I got a black screen I've never seen before. Since then the machine has been fine. What could have caused this? I've done a full backup but how concerned should I be?

Thanks.

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
here are a couple of postings that may help:

http://www.techsupportforum.com/har...t/138483-toshiba-trap-00000006-exception.html

or

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-11184-0.html?forumID=47&threadID=160887

To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[longrun]

Thanks. All the references I've found to a trap error deal with unbootable PC's and corrupt boot loaders. I experienced this only once and my computer seems to be running fine. Presumably the files didn't uncorrupt themselves so I was wondering what might have caused this.

 

[linney]

Maybe (but I hope not) it is forewarnings of a failing hard drive?

Just make sure your valuable data is safely backed up and monitor the situation.