Unending blue screen of death

Any of you tech experts have any insights here?  My Windows will not start, just keeps giving me this.  I haven't installed any new hardware (of which I am aware).


lanky said:
Any of you tech experts have any insights here?  My Windows will not start, just keeps giving me this.  I haven't installed any new hardware (of which I am aware).

Yes, this is not a very good sign to be honest. May mean there is some hardware problem and you may have to take it to a shop.


There are two things you could try yourself:

1) Open the computer and one-by-one pull PC cards out of their sockets and gently push them back in to make sure they are properly in the socket (bus) and make proper contact (they call this 're-seating'). This sometimes slves these types of problems, but you have to feel comfortable with your ability to push the cards back in their sockets correctly, if you don't feel comfortable with this do not try this step.

2) For most Windows PC's there is a way to interrupt the boot process (typically by pressing  or one of the Function Keys while the computer is booting up. This will bring you to some bot-ROM menu that sometimes lets you run certain checks (or even start the computer in debug/test mode).

Good luck


hardware diagnostics turned up nothing and it will start in safe mode, that helps.


are you willing to do a factory reset on it?  don't know if it will help though.  you would have to know if you added hardware (ie printer, mouse)


If it starts in safe mode you should be able to disable everything in the startup menu and then add them back until you encounter the problem. 


FilmCarp said:
If it starts in safe mode you should be able to disable everything in the startup menu and then add them back until you encounter the problem. 

 You can also disable more startup programs using the program msconfig.


Update - I noticed this morning in the Safe Mode menu there was the option to boot windows from last successful session, so I did that and here I am. Noticed that there were a bunch of NVDIA drivers installed on the 18th, uninstalled those. I'm guessing those were the culprit but we'll see... Thanks to all those who responded.


You're lucky - that option never seems to work for me.



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