Re: blue screen

and did you get in in safe mode,
and what was the STOP Error number?

and assuming you can get in, you can check your progress in the device
manager, esp. in safe mode.

james

"richeo" <richeo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you James. Much more of an interesting and informative answer than
Colin's. I suspected it had something to do with the bios settings but
alas I
haven't a clue about the ins and outs of bios and would probably cause
more
damage by tinkering around with the bios settings. I'll ask my mate. He is
apparently very good with computers and if I remember rightly I'm sure I
did
ask him about bios settings before which lead to a very quizzed and akward
look on his face with just as much of a colourless answer so not sure if
he
quite understands how to configure the bios settings or he just couldn't
be
bothered to explain it to me. I'll take a good look around on the internet
to
see if I can brush up on bios which I'd imagine would take far to long and
would probably be better of just asking on this community or looking in
forums for building computers from scratch or save myself a whole lot of
time
and go buy a brand new computer but this isn't really an option for me so
I'll keep trying.

"James W. Long" wrote:

a device driver is causing your syte to crash for whatever reason.
point is to correct it.
look up stop error 0xxxxxxx in google and see what it refers to.

during this problem you might want to go into you bios set up
and disable bios and video bios caching like it says.
this runs the code from the chip intead of from memory where it can be
corrupted.
and it eliminiates a possible source of problem. when you have the
problem
fixed,
certainly reenable those as your system will run faster with them cached.

do you know anything about the bios? it has your settings the computer is
told. (its a machine it dont know). if the settings were changed its
possible
there is a mismatch between bios and windows. i would be extremely
careful
in there,
and dont change anything you dont know.

then boot in safe mode if you can (F8 before boot). if that works
you can check the device manager for a device giving you a problem
and disable it. so that you can boot normally and update it.

if you cant get safe mode then problem needs a different hammer.
boot up with boot logging enabled and see where the problem happens.
look up boot logging on google. you have to change the boot.ini file
and append /bootlog to it. aslo have to select F8 and boot logging
enabled.
then you get the log in windows\ntbtlog.txt. boots are date-time stamped
and
safemode boots are mixed with normal ones in the order they occur.

you can then boot to the recovery console and disable any specific device
you wish.
you may need the windows cd to do this.

best bet is to call your mate again, and ask him to fix it
james



"richeo" <richeo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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i have got a mate to build me a computer. more often than not the
computer
keeps crashing and goes to a blue screen where a message comes up
stating
an
error has occored and that i need to disable bios memory such as
caching
or
shadowing and that is is dumping physical memory then it counts up to
100
and
restarts. when the computer all loads up again windows error reporting
comes
up so i click on send and it comes back with 'windows error report: a
device
driver installed on comp caused windows to stop unexpectedly. This type
of
error is referred to as a "stop erro". Can someone tell me why this
happens
and how I can fix the computer to stop it from keep coming up with the
blue
screen?





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