Re: Blue screen - what now?

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Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Using XP Home with SP2. Everything was working ok, did my normal
every-few-days reboot just to clean up stuff. Came up to a blue screen
telling me could not run Windows, suggesting I run chkdsk /f. Would
not boot to safe mode or to last known good config, kept getting the
same blue screen. Finally booted to Dell Win CD and ran chkdsk /r from
recovery console. It "found and corrected 1 or more errors." Booted
again, came up to blue screen. Tried one more time, it booted
normally.
Everything's now working, but I just got message: "Windows virtual
memory too low, Windows is increasing the size of virtual memory
paging file, during this process memory requests for some apps may be
denied." I clicked out of the message and everything appears to be
working ok.
I've backed everything up to an external disk. Anything else I should
be doing, or just wait and see if there are more problems?

It doesn't sound like a software issue. You might want to run RAM and
hard drive tests. Here are some general steps for hardware
troubleshooting:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Troubleshooting

Thanks. I've run all the hardware diagnostics from SystemSuite, tests
memory, hard drive, etc, nothing comes up abnormal. When I reboot,
everything works normally for a while, then sometimes slows to a crawl
(can take 30 seconds to open a small text file in Notepad). When it
starts acting like this, it seems to crawl only on the first instance
of doing anything - for example, the second text file opens right away
in Notepad. Opening an email might take several seconds, but the
second email opens instantly, etc.

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The wages of sin are death,
but by the time taxes are taken out,
it's just sort of a tired feeling.

....Paula Poundstone
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