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Re: Help! My computer started blue screening
« Reply #80 on: January 11, 2014, 08:41:21 PM »
Make sure it doesn't have any usb devices connected and its booting from correct source drive

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Re: Help! My computer started blue screening
« Reply #81 on: January 11, 2014, 08:50:13 PM »
This is what it says on the boot menu,

1st boot priority- Diskette drive
2nd boot priority- Hard drive
3rd boot priority - Usb storage drive
4th boot priority-Cd/DVD
5th" " "             - eSATA
6th "  "   "         - Network

Should i try changing something?     

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Re: Help! My computer started blue screening
« Reply #82 on: January 11, 2014, 08:51:16 PM »
Most My important data has been backed up on Dropbox which is currently down, my luck.

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Re: Help! My computer started blue screening
« Reply #83 on: January 11, 2014, 10:47:11 PM »
How tech savvy are you? You will need to replace the hard drive a deal recover the data.  If you're in bklyn you can bring it to my lab or you can  try your luck on your own.

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Re: Help! My computer started blue screening
« Reply #84 on: January 12, 2014, 12:45:32 PM »
I've been getting BSOD and restarts for a few weeks. The errors are either "PFN_LIST_CORRUPT" or "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL", so i made sure drivers were updated, did a restore and reran update and then did memtest86 and got immediate errors (4dimms of Kingston 2 gb memory. I was able to isolate the dimm with error ( when other 3 were in i ran memtest and it came back clean), so i know the one to replace. The question is do i need to replace 2 of them so they are slotted together or can i just replace the one with errors?
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Re: Help! My computer started blue screening
« Reply #85 on: January 12, 2014, 02:00:44 PM »
I've been getting BSOD and restarts for a few weeks. The errors are either "PFN_LIST_CORRUPT" or "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL", so i made sure drivers were updated, did a restore and reran update and then did memtest86 and got immediate errors (4dimms of Kingston 2 gb memory. I was able to isolate the dimm with error ( when other 3 were in i ran memtest and it came back clean), so i know the one to replace. The question is do i need to replace 2 of them so they are slotted together or can i just replace the one with errors?
if you're going to replace with the same kingston dimm then its usually fine
which mobo?
[p.s. why waste 4 slots with 2 each?! get a decent 4x2 or 4x1 = they're around $80 for a good one iirc]
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Re: Help! My computer started blue screening
« Reply #86 on: January 12, 2014, 02:09:51 PM »
Here is the message I get when I turn on my computer "Error loading operating systrem" any ideas? Is it a dead hard drive?

This happened after my computer froze I then got a blue screen, when i turned my computer back on I got that message.

On top of all this Dropbox has been down for the last 19 Hours!!! So I can't even access my files from my wifes computer.
As DH said, 90% dead HDD.  Can you try booting off a CD or USB and accessing the drive?
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Re: Help! My computer started blue screening
« Reply #87 on: January 12, 2014, 06:22:53 PM »
if you're going to replace with the same kingston dimm then its usually fine
which mobo?
[p.s. why waste 4 slots with 2 each?! get a decent 4x2 or 4x1 = they're around $80 for a good one iirc]
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Thanks - my pc is 6+ years old and i think the max the motherboard can handles is 2 gb in each.
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