XP Pro fully updated with N360 and Malwarebytes running behind a NAT firewall.
2 days ago after downloading an update from HP (saved only) my screen froze ... I was able to invoke a restart however after checkdisk ran the OS never came back.
attempted to go in to a previous known boot and safe mode with no joy ... I then pulled out my MS XP media and attempted to go into to recovery consol only to get the BLUE SCREEN error.
ran all the Lenovo System Diags everything passed
ran Spinrite on the drive which is less then a year old and it passed
backed up the drive then restored a 5 day old backup (month end) and then restored email and work files including the Downloaded hp file from the crash backup ... ran Virus and malware scans nothing found
At this point it is very troubling because I don't know what caused this to happen ... searching the internet just returns noise mostly with someone pushing their registry scanners.
Been using laptops since the mid 80's this is the first time I have had a failure where it wasn't obvious what caused it.
My lenovo was purchased with a full 4 yr warrentee which still has over 2 years remaining ... kind of hard to get something fixed though if I don't know whats broke.
2 days ago after downloading an update from HP (saved only) my screen froze ... I was able to invoke a restart however after checkdisk ran the OS never came back.
attempted to go in to a previous known boot and safe mode with no joy ... I then pulled out my MS XP media and attempted to go into to recovery consol only to get the BLUE SCREEN error.
ran all the Lenovo System Diags everything passed
ran Spinrite on the drive which is less then a year old and it passed
backed up the drive then restored a 5 day old backup (month end) and then restored email and work files including the Downloaded hp file from the crash backup ... ran Virus and malware scans nothing found
At this point it is very troubling because I don't know what caused this to happen ... searching the internet just returns noise mostly with someone pushing their registry scanners.
Been using laptops since the mid 80's this is the first time I have had a failure where it wasn't obvious what caused it.
My lenovo was purchased with a full 4 yr warrentee which still has over 2 years remaining ... kind of hard to get something fixed though if I don't know whats broke.