i recently got a bsod without an stop error on one of my old machines
any ideas?
could a hdd jumper setting be to blame?
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i recently got a bsod without an stop error on one of my old machines
any ideas?
could a hdd jumper setting be to blame?
Well at this point anything could be to blame. You are going to need to give specs and hopefully have an arsenal of parts to swap out.
asus a7n8x-e deluxe
amd athlon xp 3000+
1gb pny ddr400
hdd western digital 60gb (jumper is still set to master because there was previously another drive in the pc but i took that one out)
i can provide whatever more specs you need. i hadn't booted this pc for about 6 months but i needed to retrieve a file from it so i turned it on and yeah....bsod after a few minutes.
If all you need is to get a file out you can remove the HDD and plug it in to your current rig and get it that way. Then try a clean install of the OS that should work.
i think what caused the bsod was this...Quote:
Originally Posted by Detale
as i was browsing files on the pc i did a windows search for another file. once the search results came up i tried to access the file and up came the bsod. when i booted the computer again and performed the search again i realized that the path led to local disk F. i had removed local disk F from that pc quite some time ago. i think what happened was that the machine tried to access a file on a drive that no longer exists hence the bsod
any thoughts?
That alone shouldn't cause the Blue Screen. It should say something like this disk is not accessible or the like
yeah that trueQuote:
Originally Posted by Detale
i really have no clue as to what caused it :(
why dont you just take the HDD and put it in a new machine then get the file?Quote:
Originally Posted by kooftspc11
ive done that alreadyQuote:
Originally Posted by Acid_death69why dont you just take the HDD and put it in a new machine then get the file?Quote:
Originally Posted by kooftspc11
im just wondering what may have caused the problem :)
Well to address your initial post I don't think a HDD jumper could cause it unless you changed it. My opinion as to why this happened.... Ghosts man, ghosts. I am having my share of them ATM. Did you do a clean install to see if things are working properly now?
i ran memtest and it found 2048 errors...the psu died shortly afterQuote:
Originally Posted by Detale
i guess that goes to explain some of what went wrong but its strange because it was all working fine last time i used that pc.
*shrug*
i will switch out the psu and try and isolate the bad ram....will do a reinstall then and see if the problem is fixed. it's not like i ever use that pc anymore but still frustrating when something like this happens and there is no solution to it :(
If your psu was dying, it was probably throwing unrectified voltage down the power buses. That could cause all sorts of problems and possible failures. I suggest you run the memory tests again after you've sorted out the psu, there may be nothing wrong with the memory.
Even if further testing still says there's a fault, it's possible that the fault lies elsewhere (motherboard or cpu) which is showing up as a memory problem. Check the same memory in another system before declaring it faulty.
unfortunately i dont have another system that takes ddr400 :(Quote:
Originally Posted by lynx
I have one here but you'd need to pay shipping and if I said it was bad you probably wouldn't believe me anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by kooftspc11unfortunately i dont have another system that takes ddr400 :(Quote:
Originally Posted by lynx