Re: Vista blue screen of death followed by non responsive display
- From: "BillW50" <BillW50@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:31:47 -0500
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BillW50 typed on Tue, 8 Jul 2008 09:57:14 -0500:
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Chris Hill <hillco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:54:01
-0500:
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:11:34 -0500, aatesin
<aatesin.3c6ogg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good Day,
I have a 1.1 year old Gateway CX210X (2 Ghz Core2Duo, 2.5 Gb Ram,
ATI X1400).
I have been having what seems to be a hardware issue with my
computer. Basically last wednesday my computer suddenly froze (I
could see what I was working on, but mouse and keyboard did not
work). When I restarted my computer, although I could sense that
windows was loading, my display was just blank (it seemed that no
power was going to it). When I shut down the computer, wait and
restart, sometimes the display would work, othertimes it would not.
But invariably when the the display worked, it ultimately crashed
before windows loaded completely with a blue screen indicating an
error with the atikmdag.sys file. I have tried reinstalling windows
vista from scratch twice since the problem started. The first time,
everything was working nicely. I installed all the programs I use,
and then the problem started again. On Saturday, I reinstalled
vista. I installed all the available updates, firefox and avast
antivirus software, but nothing else. The computer worked fine all
day saturday and sunday. The network worked fine. I played a movie
on my computer and that worked fine. I shut the computer last night,
and this morning when I started my computer, it crashed with the
same problems. Right now I am posting this message via an external
monitor connected to my computer and in safe mode, as windows is not
able to load in a normal fashion. Can anyone help me?
I'd be finding out who made the hard drive and getting their
diagnostic to run. Sure sounds like the drive isn't storing things
well. I suppose it could be a problem with the main board, but that
sure sounds like something bad on the hd in the operating system
area.
If you can't find a diagnostic program, Windows surface scan should
find problems too if it is the hard drive. You didn't drop the laptop
or anything while it was running, did you? As hard drives don't like
being banged around too much while they are running.
Although if you are going to bang them around a bit, this is were SSD
(solid state drive) comes in handy. You can buy them to replace your
existing 2.5 inch hard drive. Or get a computer that already uses
them like the Asus EEE PCs. They are perfect in areas like car travel
where hard drives can't take that much of a beating.
Another idea just popped into my head. Make sure the CPU isn't overheating.
Something like BattStat v0.98 should do nicely to report the CPU and HD
temps.
--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 4GB SSD 2GB SODIMM 16GB SDHC
Windows XP Home SP2 - 10400mAh
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