Question For GFY Geeks And Or Brains Of The Board
 

I have a laptop that works here at my new beach house. But when I brought it back to my other house, just 150 miles away, it would start and then crash with a blue screen. I can't for the life of me figure out what would do this ? I have time Warner Cable at my other place in Holly Springs, but have embark here at my beach house. What would cause this to happen. Different voltages ? Different humidity. Please advice. Thanks

Did u drop it? or do you have new updates set to auto install?
Try to start it in Safemode and find out the last thing that got installed or modified.

maybe a virus on my Time Warner ip ??

I doubt it, but since that's related to the problem you might wanna call them..:pimp

yup, your ip address has a virus :1orglaugh

sounds like the fetzer valve is out of alignment

Sound really serious. I had my mechanic tell my my head light bearing were blown too. cost me $1500 bucks.

Do you have any idea of why this would happen. I'm looking for the smart people to answer.

There aren't too many possibilities.

1. Try disabling the wireless (if there is a physical switch on the notebook for it, most have them) and booting it up.
2. It's coincidental that it's not working 150 miles away, something inside could have slightly disconnected or got bumped a little during transit.
3. How far does it go during the boot process before it blue screens and what does the blue screen say.

I can definitely help if you provide some more information.

I'm running windows xp, both on wireless. one on a berklin router off Roadrunner. And I even connected it via cat5 cable at my old place. It would load windows display my desktop and flash blue and start over.

I bring it back home, fire it up, and works the entire day while my son plays on nick.com
Super weird.

I assume you're at the place where it's working fine now, right click on 'My Computer' and go to 'Properties'

Click 'Advanced' tab, click on "settings" in the 'Start up and Recovery' section.

In the system failure section, uncheck 'Automatically restart' and click OK twice

This will disable it rebooting right after bluescreening which will let you see what the bluescreen actually says, then from there it's much easier to diagnose.


It will also help to check the Event Viewer in Control Panel/Administrative Tools by the way.

Do you have antivirus setup on one and not the other at the ROUTER, not your machine? When I got Verizon FiOS they wanted to install it through the router, then computers that sign on to the router download the information.

Ive read about this (only because i was trying to disable it) a little while ago. If you can boot up, turn off the wireless card, some you can externally and see if it fixes it. If so, thats your problem and its probably a conflict issue with a current virus protection you have.

If it boots up to windows and gets to the start page (meaning windows loads past the little icon with the status bar), then its most likely software. If it wont let you even load to the start page, then its bios or hardware.

maybe it just likes the beach better ?? But really what would cause this to happen. I do get this error when I start it up.

Smart Failure Predicted
On HardDrive
Warning: Immediately Back-up Your data

But here it works with no problems. At my old place just flashes a blue screen and reboots.

Looking now :thumbsup. But I have not changed anything but the connection is the starnge thing.

Hmmm I'm not sure. I just had time warner to the wireless berlin n1 wireless router. I tried rebooting with the wireless lan on and then off. did the same thing. I even hardwire connect it to the cat5 cable off the time warner hub. Still gave me the blue screen of death.

But when I boot it up here at my new place. Works perfect. Ran virus screens they all came back with nothing. Just seems really really weird. It will say the same error in one place. boot up and flash blue and restart. But load up here with the same error and no problems at all for the entire day.

I doubt it's an issue with software and/or a driver. Software doesn't know when it's sitting by the beach or not. If it was a software issue it would be there all the time, that SMART warning is telling you about an issue with your hard drive, that's why you see it every time. It probably coincidental, do what I said, that why you can write down what the BSOD says next time, also run diagnostics that are built into your notebook. If you give me the make/model I can tell you how to run them, probably F12 or something similar on a modern notebook.

I love ya girl, but that comment is truly funny...:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:winkwink:

Justin's last comment is pretty much the MO for this situation though. Your location when the BSOD occurred seems purely coincidental. Is this lappy under warranty?