AbidingDude
Programmer
So, I had just updated AVG. It was apparently a major update requiring me to reboot. Upon reboot I got the BSOD. I rebooted with command prompt to see which files were causing the blue-screen. It seemed to be AVG related ones:
avgidshx.sys,
avgmfx86.sys,
avglogx.sys,
avgrkx86.sys
(I found these by booting with command prompt, quickly writing the file name down before BSOD, removing and hooking up the drive to my wife's computer, and renaming the extension... One file at a time .)
This actually happened to me a couple years ago, I was able to rename the AVG-related files and reboot with no problems. This time is different though, several other 'sys' files are causing a blue-screen, including important ones like ndis.sys and ntfs.sys.
Renaming those led to the command-prompt-boot to suggest I do a repair. I tried that. I boot from CD. It loads the necessary files, and before it gets to the setup screen, it crashes again . It does the exact same thing if I rename "ntfs.old" back to "ntfs.sys". I can't even do a Windows install! I can't figure out how to see if fixing the MBR will work. Any ideas short of formatting my hard drive?
TIA
avgidshx.sys,
avgmfx86.sys,
avglogx.sys,
avgrkx86.sys
(I found these by booting with command prompt, quickly writing the file name down before BSOD, removing and hooking up the drive to my wife's computer, and renaming the extension... One file at a time .)
This actually happened to me a couple years ago, I was able to rename the AVG-related files and reboot with no problems. This time is different though, several other 'sys' files are causing a blue-screen, including important ones like ndis.sys and ntfs.sys.
Renaming those led to the command-prompt-boot to suggest I do a repair. I tried that. I boot from CD. It loads the necessary files, and before it gets to the setup screen, it crashes again . It does the exact same thing if I rename "ntfs.old" back to "ntfs.sys". I can't even do a Windows install! I can't figure out how to see if fixing the MBR will work. Any ideas short of formatting my hard drive?
TIA