Blue Screen Of Death Problem

[Friar]

Hi Guys, I lay myself at your feet and ask that the wonderous guru's of the Dogz to please help a fellow Dog who is in need of help.

Well, lets hope that openeing has got you hooked, now for my problem....

I am trying to sort out a friends 2 year old Dell PC. Her daughter, after downloading some game that hung, decidied to switch off at the mains.

[delta7]

http://www.bootdisk.com/ is one answer -

but easier if you can get a hold of any copy of xp and try a repair

http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

read this all CAREFULLY - there are various options

[B16Enk]

Hi m8,

I can avail you of an XP iso image if needs be, with serial.

You can change the serial afterwards if required too,

[Friar]

thanks for the help guys,

I am right in thinking that inorder to run chkdsk that is the only way, by booting via cd and getting to dos, somehow?

[delta7]

you can run chdsk from the boot floppy - check you r e-mails I have sent you a boot disc and included chkdsk

[Friar]

ok, thanks dave, i'll keep a look out for it as nothing yet.

[B16Enk]

How far into the boot process does it go Colin?

Does it crash the same in command prompt safe mode too?

Dave, that floppy sounds interesting, not come across a means to run chkdsk off floppy, can I have a copy please?

[Friar]

when it boots it goes to the screen where you can select safe mode, safe mode with networking etc

Safe mode still crashes.

Return to last known good config crashes

[delta7]

How far into the boot process does it go Colin?

Does it crash the same in command prompt safe mode too?

Dave, that floppy sounds interesting, not come across a means to run chkdsk off floppy, can I have a copy please?

ah apologies - my bad

[BBloke]

In place repair maybe a better possibility especially if the registry is still intact.

[Friar]

Problem is now fixed.

Thanks to bboke for the material