Blue Screen of Death-Reboots After Loading Desktop 1

[KornFuse]

Hello

Hoping if anybody cud give me pointers-

The issue:

My (HP Pavillion dv1000) laptop would POST properly, load the entire desktop (with all shortcuts) but would cut back and show me the Blue Screen of Death immidiately after loading the desktop!

Things I tried:

1. Logged into Safe mode and tried loading "Last good config known" - Did not help

2. Ran the sfc /scannow command to check if all the system files were ok....Did not show any corrupted sys files.

3. Defraged hard drive in Safe mode- did not help.

I've got important stuff that i dont want to lose on my hard drive.

Could any one suggest how i can get rid of the blue screen and get back working. Thanks a lot.

 

[Ploper001]

Control Panel -> System (Properties) -> Advanced Tab -> Startup and Recovery Settings -> Untick "Automatically Restart".

Now you should be able to read the BSOD message and see what file or device is causing the problem.

 

[smah]

Post the BSOD message.

 

[KornFuse]

Ok. The "Automatically Restart" was already unchecked! Where can I read the BSOD msg?

 

[KornFuse]

!!!Please Ignore my last post!!!

The BSOD msg is:

PFN_LIST_CORRUPT

Error Code: x0000008E (xC0000005, x805446F3, xAA15F154, x00000000)

Beginning Dump of Physical Memory.

 

[smah]

Did something change before this started? 8E codes are usually hardware related

http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php#0x8e

http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?query=stop+0x0000008e

PFN_LIST_CORRUPT usually also points to a hardware problem, but usually has a different error code (4E)

http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php#0x4e

 

[KornFuse]

On another reboot Im getting a different BSOD msg

BAD_POOL_HEADER with a different set of Stop code.

 

[KornFuse]

Nope! Only that I rebooted and logged in as Admin instead of the user's windows id.

And neither did I add or remove any hardware.

 

[PRPhx]

Doing a google search, your error generally indicates that system memory may have gone bad. That might be the first place to look.

The BAD_POOL_HEADER may be the result of your first error. Do a search on MS site for BAD_POOL_HEADER. Even MS says there are a large number of reasons for the BAD_POOL_HEADER error.

 

[KornFuse]

PRPhx

How do i go about checking system mem (I'm assuming yr refering to RAM)?

 

[PRPhx]

can try memtest. It's free. Do a google search for it. Download, install it and let it run for a while (preferably overnight would probably be good).

 

[smah]

Different error messages are usually caused by bad ram. A second vote for memtest86

 

[bcastner]

A vote for Microsoft OCA:

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

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[KornFuse]

Haven't yet done a test on the system memory(RAM). However I did a chkdsk /P and this is the result:

"Found one or more errors on volume."

what does this imply? Does this mean that my hard drive is bad?

 

[KornFuse]

And then when I do a chkdsk /R it does not go any further after 50%!

 

[linney]

To check your RAM.

http://www.memtest86.com/

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

To check your Hard Drive.

The drive manufacturer will have free diagnostic software to thoroughly check your drive for problems. The software will run from a bootable floppy, similar to the RAM testing software.

 

[PRPhx]

KornFuse,
What do you mean, chkdsk doesn't get beyond 50%????? Does it simply quit? Do you get an error???? You may think it doesn't go any further, but it may still be working. Give it more time.