Blue screen - restart. Then... Blue screen again? Image of blue screen

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Okay, I had a blue screen about two weeks ago, maybe a little less. It didn't bother me, but I backed up everything on my hard drive just in case. I got a blue screen and my PC restarted itself and asked if I want to start up in safe-mode, etc. It worked fine.

And then just about 10 minutes ago, I got another unexpected shutdown and the same thing happened. Should I be worried about this? My laptop died in early 2010 of a bluescreen losing me lots of data, so it wouldn't surprise me.

I don't know what exactly causes bluescreens. An unexpected shutdown, could it be cause by too much CPU usage? Because at the time I had about 20 tabs open in the internet, WMP playing music and some other things.

If my PC's stats have anything relating to it, I've got an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual COre Processor 5200. With a 2.6 GHz CPU, 2 GB of RAM. Its a 64-bit Operating system, and that's all it really says. And I have a NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 graphics card in my PC. And I have an 80 GB hard drive and I've used just over half of it (36.3 GB out of I think 74.5 usable GB).

Any help would be well appreciated. :)
 
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You can turn the option to reboot off, so that you can read what is on the blue screen, and I'll bet my ass when you give the reason stated on the blue screen, there are people here that can help you.
 
From what you said you were doing when it happened, I'd guess that it was because you were doing far too much and the computer couldn't handle it. However, a look at the event viewer might be useful, as you'd be able to see the error message which could help greatly in figuring out what caused the issue.
 
Okay, so I went into startup and recovery and turned System restart in the case of a System Failure, so now do I just have to wait until I get another blue screen and then pick up what it says or what?

All I remember from the blue screen was it saying that it's received an unexpected shutdown, and it started dumping stuff.
 
Dennisch
You can turn the option to reboot off, so that you can read what is on the blue screen, and I'll bet my ass when you give the reason stated on the blue screen, there are people here that can help you.
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Like me, heck if I can get the memory dump I can decode it and find out what caused it.
 
Oh this is what I'm after.

See I've got a HDD that won't load past the loading screen of XP, I think the bar goes around twice and then crashes. The bluescreen pops up for half a second, but I havn't got time to read it. I've taken a photo but the quality is poor as I don't have a decent camera at the moment. I'll have a look in the BIOS to see if there's a setting to turn auto reboot off, but I don't remember anything...
 
I would say it is.

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME


0x0000007B

To turn auto reboot off keep tapping F8 right after you turn on the PC.
This will bring up the advanced boot menu, their it will show the option "Disable automatic restart on system failure"
 
NissanSkylineN1
Use WhoCrashed if you can in safe mode.
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WhoCrashed? I don't even know what that is. :dunce: But I probably can turn to safe mode.

For now I'm going to guess that I was trying to make the computer to too many things at once.
 
Oh! I know this problem!!!! I had it a few days ago!! Make sure that your HDD in BIOS is set to IDE mode and in Compatibilitry mode. WinXP doesn't work with AHCI.
 
NissanSkylineN1
Oh! I know this problem!!!! I had it a few days ago!! Make sure that your HDD in BIOS is set to IDE mode and in Compatibilitry mode. WinXP doesn't work with AHCI.
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XP will work in AHCI as long as you have the drivers.

To check bluescreen dump files I use a program called "bluescreenview" it is great as it is just an .exe file and can run of a USB drive.

Infinital-NG
If your drive is an IDE drive, it could be your IDE cable.
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Bad SATA cables can cause this too, but it sounds like a general windows corruption
 
I've never seen it happen on Sata drives, but seen it loads of times with a newer IDE drive on an older cable.

Usually bad sata cables I just see corruption in general.
 
Okay, I had another blue screen. I quickly got my camera and took multiple photo's of what it said (in case some were blurry).

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google win32k.sys
It is a know issue and there are plenty of methods to do it.

The most simple one could be repairing windows with the Win Cd

You can also replace the .sys file but it is a bit more work (more than just copying over).

But it is repairable without problems.
 
Skython
Okay, I had another blue screen. I quickly got my camera and took multiple photo's of what it said (in case some were blurry).

6949847928_2d27fd2c91_z.jpg
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I can't stop laughing dude, I use to see this on most XP machines that I fixed.

Can you upload a minidump or memory dump file?

Minidumps are found in C:\windows\minidump
Memory dumps C:\windows\memorydump
or similar.
 
I was googling it, and it seems that it could have something to do with your drivers, possibly your graphics driver..
 
To me, that looks like a memory issue. 2GB of RAM isn't very much these days. Track your memory usage with task manager - if you get below 200mb available, data starts writing to disk, and could cause problems, especially if the disk is heavily fragmented.

You said you had 20 tabs open, were playing a WMP file, and some other stuff? That would almost certainly use up all of that memory. So you might be able to alleviate this by simply running a defrag on C:, and then chkdsk c:/f - choose yes when it asks if you want to reboot. That might get you for awhile, but...

I'd start by heading to the store and bumping to at least 4GB (that should run you about $30, if that).
 
thechosenwonton
To me, that looks like a memory issue. 2GB of RAM isn't very much these days. Track your memory usage with task manager - if you get below 200mb available, data starts writing to disk, and could cause problems, especially if the disk is heavily fragmented.

You said you had 20 tabs open, were playing a WMP file, and some other stuff? That would almost certainly use up all of that memory. So you might be able to alleviate this by simply running a defrag on C:, and then chkdsk c:/f - choose yes when it asks if you want to reboot. That might get you for awhile, but...

I'd start by heading to the store and bumping to at least 4GB (that should run you about $30, if that).
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XP uses 512MB when you add your AV and still has enough to play with.
2GB should be more than fine but it is pushing it when you do 20 tabs with WMP.
 
Before we all go nuts over the matter, let the OP repair his win32K.sys file.

Copy/paste from PcReview forum.


21st Feb 2004
The behavior may occur if the win32k.sys is corrupted. Go to
C:\WINDOWS\System32 and rename the Win32k.sys file to Win32k.old and then
close the window. Now go back to the system32 folder and you will have a
new and non-corrupt Win32k.sys file.

The behavior also may be caused by that the virtual memory of the Windows XP
is corrupted. Disable and then enable the Virtual Memory to see whether it
solved the problem.

To disable Virtual memory:

1. Right click My Computer and choose properties
2. Click the Advanced tab
3. Under Performance click settings.
4. Click the Advanced tab.
5. Under Virtual memory click change
6. Click no paging file
7. Click OK
8. Restart the computer

To enable Virtual memory:

1. Right click My Computer and choose properties
2. Click the Advanced tab
3. Under Performance click settings.
4. Click the Advanced tab.
5. Under Virtual memory click change
6. Click System Managed Size
7. Click OK
8. Restart the computer
 
Grayfox
XP uses 512MB when you add your AV and still has enough to play with.
2GB should be more than fine but it is pushing it when you do 20 tabs with WMP.
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Minor correction. I'm quite sure I'm on Windows 7. I'm rather 100% sure. ;)

thechosenwonton
To me, that looks like a memory issue. 2GB of RAM isn't very much these days. Track your memory usage with task manager - if you get below 200mb available, data starts writing to disk, and could cause problems, especially if the disk is heavily fragmented.

You said you had 20 tabs open, were playing a WMP file, and some other stuff? That would almost certainly use up all of that memory. So you might be able to alleviate this by simply running a defrag on C:, and then chkdsk c:/f - choose yes when it asks if you want to reboot. That might get you for awhile, but...

I'd start by heading to the store and bumping to at least 4GB (that should run you about $30, if that).
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I might look into that. Considering I have about $50 to spare ($30 US I presume is about $50 NZ). I remember defragmenting my old Laptop quite often.

Dennisch
Before we all go nuts over the matter, let the OP repair his win32K.sys file.

Copy/paste from PcReview forum.

Handy info...
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I shall do this! ... Tomorrow. It's 1 AM right now, and I'm meant to be sleeping earlier due to school being on Monday.

Also, thanks guys. You've been very helpful for me even if my computer knowledge isn't quite up to scratch. ;) :cheers:
 
Grayfox
XP uses 512MB when you add your AV and still has enough to play with.
2GB should be more than fine but it is pushing it when you do 20 tabs with WMP.
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Kind of my entire point, really.

OP, now you say Windows 7 - 2GB just isn't sufficient to run that amount of applications - I'm on a Windows 7 laptop right now typing this - other than 4 tabs in Chrome open I'm not running anything, and using 1.6GB of memory.
 
Okay, thanks Thechosenwonton. :cheers: I can run GT Legends fine though. It confuses me. But nonetheless, I am quite set on getting more memory now.

Edit: I might not have to. I've been running through all the processes my PC runs. It turns out Simraceway has been running through the system. I went through a large process to delete it, now my PC is using half the amount of data on the little meter on the desktop.
 
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