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Sly · 03-11-2012, 08:00 AM

Last night my laptop took a poop. Got it in September, HP, Windows 7.

I'm on ICQ and suddenly my ICQ sort of freezes, then I get a blue screen with a bunch of text and technical details. The end of the screen does not give me a prompt or specific instructions, aside from "contact your administrator."

So I restart the computer (after a hard power down) and I'm given two different options. Repair, or start Windows normally.

First I do the repair option. Computer takes a minute to "repair." It then forwards to a blank screen, as if it wants to load something, but nothing happens. I let sit for a few minutes, still nothing. I power down again.

Then I start Windows normally. The computer goes to the Windows logo screen, the logo runs through its flashing cycle, but nothing happens. This repeats over and over again. I powered down again.

I then try each of the above once again. Still nothing. Any clues what's up? Can I do a system recovery to a prior date somehow?

Grapesoda · 03-11-2012, 08:02 AM

get into the bios and check the boot sequence... just went though the same thing.... now I have all my data on auto bu, and a mirror of my c drive

Fletch XXX · 03-11-2012, 08:03 AM

can you start into bios or safe mode?

baddog · 03-11-2012, 08:06 AM

Like suggested, can you start in safe mode and go back to an earlier date with system restore? The fact that HP is in the equation makes it anyone's guess.

TheSquealer · 03-11-2012, 08:10 AM

You need to capture 3 squirrels for sacrifice to the Sacred Altar of Gates. Make sure the squirrels are virgins and of noble birth. Once you have the squirrels, place them neatly on a wood cutting board, then tie their tiny little feet to the corners so they are spread out. Try to calm them with soothing words as you do this. No need to make it unpleasant for the squirrels. Then, one by one, chant these words "Oh hear me Gods of MSDOS, lift your curse on my notebook and I offer you the blood of these squirrels as payments for your benevolence" - Then make sure the knife (paring knife if you have one.. best to use something small) in a swift downward motion into the squirrels chest to expose its tiny little beating heart. Remove the heart quickly, raising it above your head and displaying it to the cheering crowd below showing them all that you alone command the heavens to do your bidding as the blood runs down your arms and body. Repeat 2 more times. Dispose of dead squirrels.

Barry-xlovecam · 03-11-2012, 08:19 AM

My condolences ...

F8

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...n&cc=us&dlc=en

Worth a try ...

System restore will restore a virus to a system also ... go back weeks ...

Harmon · 03-11-2012, 08:26 AM

Windows is most likely fried it's file system due to one thing or another. Most likely you will not get into safe mode, most likely you will not be able to repair it. Try it, but I am 99% sure it's not going to work.

Slave your drive over to another PC and grab any files off of it if there is anything worth saving and reformat. You have to love MS products.

LiveDose · 03-11-2012, 09:09 AM

I agree with Harmon. I wouldn't mess around with trying to repair anything at this point. Pop the drive in an external and get your files off the drive. Good luck.

RaiderX · 03-11-2012, 09:25 AM

I'd say that you reinstall Windows. btw did you use a pirated version of Windows or the genuine one ?

If genuine, then you can call Microsoft and get free support from them.

OverdueNudes · 03-11-2012, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by TheSquealer

You need to capture 3 squirrels for sacrifice to the Sacred Altar of Gates. Make sure the squirrels are virgins and of noble birth. Once you have the squirrels, place them neatly on a wood cutting board, then tie their tiny little feet to the corners so they are spread out. Try to calm them with soothing words as you do this. No need to make it unpleasant for the squirrels. Then, one by one, chant these words "Oh hear me Gods of MSDOS, lift your curse on my notebook and I offer you the blood of these squirrels as payments for your benevolence" - Then make sure the knife (paring knife if you have one.. best to use something small) in a swift downward motion into the squirrels chest to expose its tiny little beating heart. Remove the heart quickly, raising it above your head and displaying it to the cheering crowd below showing them all that you alone command the heavens to do your bidding as the blood runs down your arms and body. Repeat 2 more times. Dispose of dead squirrels.

That was absolutely hilarious.

Babaganoosh · 03-11-2012, 09:32 AM

What is the error code on the blue screen? It should probably look something like 0x000000xx.

u-Bob · 03-11-2012, 10:27 AM

- backup data to another disk.
- use the HP system restore to restore the hd to factory settings

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

You need to capture 3 squirrels for sacrifice to the Sacred Altar of Gates. Make sure the squirrels are virgins and of noble birth. Once you have the squirrels, place them neatly on a wood cutting board, then tie their tiny little feet to the corners so they are spread out. Try to calm them with soothing words as you do this. No need to make it unpleasant for the squirrels. Then, one by one, chant these words "Oh hear me Gods of MSDOS, lift your curse on my notebook and I offer you the blood of these squirrels as payments for your benevolence" - Then make sure the knife (paring knife if you have one.. best to use something small) in a swift downward motion into the squirrels chest to expose its tiny little beating heart. Remove the heart quickly, raising it above your head and displaying it to the cheering crowd below showing them all that you alone command the heavens to do your bidding as the blood runs down your arms and body. Repeat 2 more times. Dispose of dead squirrels.

MrBottomTooth · 03-11-2012, 10:40 AM

Do yourself a favour and buy one of those external hard drive cases that you can just pop your drive in and connect via USB. So convenient if windows takes a shit and you can't restore it for whatever reason.

Most come with both sata and ide connections in case you are dealing with an old piece of shit system.

martinsc · 03-11-2012, 11:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

You need to capture 3 squirrels for sacrifice to the Sacred Altar of Gates. Make sure the squirrels are virgins and of noble birth. Once you have the squirrels, place them neatly on a wood cutting board, then tie their tiny little feet to the corners so they are spread out. Try to calm them with soothing words as you do this. No need to make it unpleasant for the squirrels. Then, one by one, chant these words "Oh hear me Gods of MSDOS, lift your curse on my notebook and I offer you the blood of these squirrels as payments for your benevolence" - Then make sure the knife (paring knife if you have one.. best to use something small) in a swift downward motion into the squirrels chest to expose its tiny little beating heart. Remove the heart quickly, raising it above your head and displaying it to the cheering crowd below showing them all that you alone command the heavens to do your bidding as the blood runs down your arms and body. Repeat 2 more times. Dispose of dead squirrels.

WarChild · 03-11-2012, 11:14 AM

Do you have a recovery disk for the laptop? If you didn't make one when you got the laptop, you can try to download one from the manufacturers site.

powerteam · 03-11-2012, 11:23 AM

Mine did something similar. It started rebooting itself, go to the Windows logo screen like it was loading, then to blue screen, then reboot again. It would never stop the cycle unless I turned it off.

Come to find out, the computer was lacking on RAM and I was killing the hard drive by running so much on the computer. What I was told is that if you max out your computer's RAM, it partition's part of the hard drive to try and use it as RAM. I was doing this alot as I was running shit loads of stuff.

Completely fried the hard drive and couldn't get anything off of it. Learned the hard way. Now I have 3 computers, a VPS (which I run all my system resource hungry programs on), and online storage through my ISP to make sure I don't lose anything again.

Yngwie · 03-11-2012, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by powerteam

Mine did something similar. It started rebooting itself, go to the Windows logo screen like it was loading, then to blue screen, then reboot again. It would never stop the cycle unless I turned it off.

Come to find out, the computer was lacking on RAM and I was killing the hard drive by running so much on the computer. What I was told is that if you max out your computer's RAM, it partition's part of the hard drive to try and use it as RAM. I was doing this alot as I was running shit loads of stuff.

Completely fried the hard drive and couldn't get anything off of it. Learned the hard way. Now I have 3 computers, a VPS (which I run all my system resource hungry programs on), and online storage through my ISP to make sure I don't lose anything again.

It does that only if windows virtual memory is turned on. By default it's on and set to allow windows to manage the page file, but it can be turned off. If you have a lot of ram then it's useless to have on. If you have like 2gb of ram or something then it's good to have on. Also, it's best to have the pagefile on a 2nd hard drive in your pc and not the main one. That way it won't slow down or put stress on your main boot drive.

I have 8gb of ram so I just turned it off. Not needed.

alextokyo · 03-11-2012, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSquealer

You need to capture...

How the fuck is a cripple supposed to do that? Roll himself off a hill and hope that 3 creatures throw themselves into his spokes?

TheSquealer · 03-11-2012, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by alextokyo

How the fuck is a cripple supposed to do that? Roll himself off a hill and hope that 3 creatures throw themselves into his spokes?

You can buy squirrels on eBay

brassmonkey · 03-11-2012, 02:32 PM

better flip it over and check the hard drive you hear any clicking?

Sly · 03-11-2012, 03:13 PM

Based on the diagnostic test, hard drive is dead. Looks like I'll be sending it back…

People always ask me why I have three computers. This is why. Bah.

Fap · 03-11-2012, 03:21 PM

get a mac ;)

Yngwie · 03-11-2012, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Fap

get a mac ;)

having a mac won't mean that a hard drive can't die. As you will notice by his last post it had nothing to do with a Windows issue, but the hard drive died. ;)

raymor · 03-11-2012, 05:14 PM

FYI for next time:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sly

then I get a blue screen with a bunch of text and technical details.

Next time pick up your phone and take a picture or two of those "text and technical details". Often they tell a geek exactly what's wrong. Sometimes, you put put the first error message in Google and get useful information.

livexxx · 03-11-2012, 05:48 PM

if the blue screen goes by too quickly, use your phone to record it as a video. Then you can step through it frame by frame to read what it actually says

jigg · 03-11-2012, 05:49 PM

a freeze then blue-screen could be indicative of a hardware issue - hard drive, ram or controller going out. I think it's possible your hard drive's head couldn't correct an issue and from that improper shutdown there may be a corruption issue somewhere. Where was your laptop? Was it overheating at all? Or has it recently?

Pop the drive out if you can, without voiding the warranty, and make a copy of what's on it somewhere safe.

And what Raymor said, you should always jog down the error number and look it up it often times tells you exactly what and where went wrong

03-11-2012, 08:00 AM	#1
Sly Let's do some business! Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 31,323	Blue Screen, computer will not start up Last night my laptop took a poop. Got it in September, HP, Windows 7. I'm on ICQ and suddenly my ICQ sort of freezes, then I get a blue screen with a bunch of text and technical details. The end of the screen does not give me a prompt or specific instructions, aside from "contact your administrator." So I restart the computer (after a hard power down) and I'm given two different options. Repair, or start Windows normally. First I do the repair option. Computer takes a minute to "repair." It then forwards to a blank screen, as if it wants to load something, but nothing happens. I let sit for a few minutes, still nothing. I power down again. Then I start Windows normally. The computer goes to the Windows logo screen, the logo runs through its flashing cycle, but nothing happens. This repeats over and over again. I powered down again. I then try each of the above once again. Still nothing. Any clues what's up? Can I do a system recovery to a prior date somehow? __________________ Vacares - Web Hosting, Domains, O365, Security & More - Paxum and BTC Accepted Windows VPS now available Great for TSS, Nifty Stats, remote work, virtual assistants, etc. Click here for more details.

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TheSquealer BANNED Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: In Your Head Posts: 25,158	You need to capture 3 squirrels for sacrifice to the Sacred Altar of Gates. Make sure the squirrels are virgins and of noble birth. Once you have the squirrels, place them neatly on a wood cutting board, then tie their tiny little feet to the corners so they are spread out. Try to calm them with soothing words as you do this. No need to make it unpleasant for the squirrels. Then, one by one, chant these words "Oh hear me Gods of MSDOS, lift your curse on my notebook and I offer you the blood of these squirrels as payments for your benevolence" - Then make sure the knife (paring knife if you have one.. best to use something small) in a swift downward motion into the squirrels chest to expose its tiny little beating heart. Remove the heart quickly, raising it above your head and displaying it to the cheering crowd below showing them all that you alone command the heavens to do your bidding as the blood runs down your arms and body. Repeat 2 more times. Dispose of dead squirrels. __________________ . Yes, fewer illegal immigrants working equates to more job opportunities for American citizens. Rochard

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Barry-xlovecam It's 42 Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Global Posts: 18,083	My condolences ... F8 http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...n&cc=us&dlc=en Worth a try ... System restore will restore a virus to a system also ... go back weeks ...

03-11-2012, 08:26 AM	#7
Harmon ( ͡ʘ╭͜ʖ╮͡ʘ) Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 20,007	Windows is most likely fried it's file system due to one thing or another. Most likely you will not get into safe mode, most likely you will not be able to repair it. Try it, but I am 99% sure it's not going to work. Slave your drive over to another PC and grab any files off of it if there is anything worth saving and reformat. You have to love MS products. __________________ [email protected]

03-11-2012, 08:02 AM	#2
Grapesoda So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Montana Posts: 46,238	get into the bios and check the boot sequence... just went though the same thing.... now I have all my data on auto bu, and a mirror of my c drive

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baddog So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: the beach, SoCal Posts: 107,089	Like suggested, can you start in safe mode and go back to an earlier date with system restore? The fact that HP is in the equation makes it anyone's guess.

03-11-2012, 09:09 AM	#8
LiveDose Show Yer Tits! Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Somewhere Out there... Posts: 25,792	I agree with Harmon. I wouldn't mess around with trying to repair anything at this point. Pop the drive in an external and get your files off the drive. Good luck. __________________ Scammer Alert: acer19 acer [email protected] [email protected] Money stolen using PayPal

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RaiderX Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 83	I'd say that you reinstall Windows. btw did you use a pirated version of Windows or the genuine one ? If genuine, then you can call Microsoft and get free support from them.

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MrBottomTooth Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 5,795	Do yourself a favour and buy one of those external hard drive cases that you can just pop your drive in and connect via USB. So convenient if windows takes a shit and you can't restore it for whatever reason. Most come with both sata and ide connections in case you are dealing with an old piece of shit system. __________________ Get Paid Per Email Like The WEGCASH Days!!!!

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03-11-2012, 11:23 AM	#16
powerteam Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 435	Mine did something similar. It started rebooting itself, go to the Windows logo screen like it was loading, then to blue screen, then reboot again. It would never stop the cycle unless I turned it off. Come to find out, the computer was lacking on RAM and I was killing the hard drive by running so much on the computer. What I was told is that if you max out your computer's RAM, it partition's part of the hard drive to try and use it as RAM. I was doing this alot as I was running shit loads of stuff. Completely fried the hard drive and couldn't get anything off of it. Learned the hard way. Now I have 3 computers, a VPS (which I run all my system resource hungry programs on), and online storage through my ISP to make sure I don't lose anything again. __________________ Free Adult Blog Hosting - FreeAdultWP.com ICQ: 617646871 Email: [email protected]

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Sly Let's do some business! Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 31,323	Based on the diagnostic test, hard drive is dead. Looks like I'll be sending it back… People always ask me why I have three computers. This is why. Bah. __________________ Vacares - Web Hosting, Domains, O365, Security & More - Paxum and BTC Accepted Windows VPS now available Great for TSS, Nifty Stats, remote work, virtual assistants, etc. Click here for more details.

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03-11-2012, 05:49 PM	#26
jigg Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,527	a freeze then blue-screen could be indicative of a hardware issue - hard drive, ram or controller going out. I think it's possible your hard drive's head couldn't correct an issue and from that improper shutdown there may be a corruption issue somewhere. Where was your laptop? Was it overheating at all? Or has it recently? Pop the drive out if you can, without voiding the warranty, and make a copy of what's on it somewhere safe. And what Raymor said, you should always jog down the error number and look it up it often times tells you exactly what and where went wrong Last edited by jigg; 03-11-2012 at 05:50 PM..