Re: Continous BSOD

Mike, it appears that, after an exceedingly long life, your computer has
died of natural causes.
I won't mention "replacing the PC."

As to your data: each failed attempt to repair and/or reinstall the
Operating System decreases your chance of recovering your data files.

Pull the hard drive out of your dead computer, install it into a working
computer as a slave drive, and copy your data files to floppy, CD-R, or
whatever.

Steve

"Mike" <dingasm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1139837380.664785.262000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My older PC is in cardiac arrest. Need help in resolving. Please, no
chiding about replacing the PC. Not only do I not have funds for a
replacement but I need to gain access to data on the hard drive.

Here's how it played out:

Initially, BSOD would randomly occur. Sometimes after hours of use,
other times much sooner. Now, it is a recurring event (after trying to
restore OS which failed and then re-install which is not allowed to
complete). BSOD just flashed by now and then reboots. This may
indicate a hardware fault.

Here's what I've already tried.

Tested memory okay.
Re-scanned for virus: System would crash before it can complete
Tried to update virus software, would crash before it can complete.
Have run chkdsk which finds/recovers two lost clusters but that's all.
Tried to repair OS, did not help.
Tried to re-install. System crashes before it can complete.
Disconnected all extra drives including CDROM to see if P/S was an
issue. Still get BSOD.
Reseated CPU. No luck. Would test CPU it if I could find a utility that
doesnt' require windows. [CPU may be an issue. Awhile back (maybe a
year), my PC was acting very slow. Discovered the CPU fan was
inoperative, don't know for how long. Replaced fan and PC was
responding normally but perhaps the CPU is just acting fried.]
Can no longer even start in Safe mode. All attempts to access or reload
the OS fail w/ BSOD.

I did install new hardware (a scanner and a laser-printer) more than a
month before this started to happen. However, I've disconnected and
uninstalled the scanner (although I did find references to it in the
Registry) . I've disconnected the printer, too but not uninstalled. Can
no longer uninstall anyway.

The CPU is an older AMD K6 233 or 266 MHz. If I could find a
replacement, would try that to see if it resolves the problem.

Any help is greatly appreciated.



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