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My memory lets me down everytime.
I'm finding my computer sometimes flashes into a blue screen (can never read this) then reboots. I think it maybe a windows or disk error. The first thing I want to try is Scandisk, which you run from DOS. How do you get to this point? F8 comes up with Uguru screen etc, F2 seem to not respond. A noddy guide would be appreciated. Thanks -- Keith (Southend) 'Weather Home & Abroad' http://www.southendweather.net |
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Keith (Southend) wrote:
My memory lets me down everytime. I'm finding my computer sometimes flashes into a blue screen (can never read this) then reboots. I think it maybe a windows or disk error. The first thing I want to try is Scandisk, which you run from DOS. How do you get to this point? F8 comes up with Uguru screen etc, F2 seem to not respond. A noddy guide would be appreciated. Thanks XP, 2000 etc....? (XP scandisk can be accessed by right clicking on the disk drive icon when you've gone into 'my computer' - select properties then tools and finally error checking) Blue screen can be caused by driver problems - have you installed new hardware recently? |
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Keith (Southend) wrote:
My memory lets me down everytime. I'm finding my computer sometimes flashes into a blue screen (can never read this) then reboots. I think it maybe a windows or disk error. The first thing I want to try is Scandisk, which you run from DOS. How do you get to this point? F8 comes up with Uguru screen etc, F2 seem to not respond. A noddy guide would be appreciated. Thanks You could install linux (no blue screens) and use a journalled filesystem like ext3 (default on most installs) which will avoid those issues and does not require defragging. -- Brian Wakem Email: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/b.wakem/myemail.png |
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"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message ... My memory lets me down everytime. I'm finding my computer sometimes flashes into a blue screen (can never read this) then reboots. I think it maybe a windows or disk error. The first thing I want to try is Scandisk, which you run from DOS. How do you get to this point? F8 comes up with Uguru screen etc, F2 seem to not respond. A noddy guide would be appreciated. Thanks -- Keith (Southend) 'Weather Home & Abroad' http://www.southendweather.net Assuming Windows XP you can change the Windows setting to make it stop on the blue screen which gives the opportunity at least to see why it halted. Control Panel/System/Advanced/Start up and Recovery/Settings and remove the check from Automatically restart. If it subsequently halts you will have to power off and then on again to restart your machine. Geoff |
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Keith (Southend) wrote: My memory lets me down everytime. I'm finding my computer sometimes flashes into a blue screen (can never read this) then reboots. I think it maybe a windows or disk error. The first thing I want to try is Scandisk, which you run from DOS. How do you get to this point? F8 comes up with Uguru screen etc, F2 seem to not respond. A noddy guide would be appreciated. Thanks Right click on My Computer....properties... advanced... startup & recovery. I'm running Windows 2003 but it's in the same place with XP. To run a quick scandisk: start-run-cmd(enter).... chkdsk (enter) this will tell you if your disk is goosed. If the BSOD is meaningless to you then let us know what the error is.... I've put up a pic: http://llandru.servehttp.com/image1.jpg as a picture says a thousand words! Les -- Les Crossan, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear 54.95N 1.5W Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ - www.uksevereweather.org.uk |
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"Les Crossan" wrote in message .uk... Keith (Southend) wrote: My memory lets me down everytime. I'm finding my computer sometimes flashes into a blue screen (can never read this) then reboots. I think it maybe a windows or disk error. The first thing I want to try is Scandisk, which you run from DOS. How do you get to this point? F8 comes up with Uguru screen etc, F2 seem to not respond. A noddy guide would be appreciated. Thanks Right click on My Computer....properties... advanced... startup & recovery. I'm running Windows 2003 but it's in the same place with XP. To run a quick scandisk: start-run-cmd(enter).... chkdsk (enter) this will tell you if your disk is goosed. If the BSOD is meaningless to you then let us know what the error is.... I've put up a pic: http://llandru.servehttp.com/image1.jpg as a picture says a thousand words! Les -- Les Crossan, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear 54.95N 1.5W Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ - www.uksevereweather.org.uk Your wallpaper makes mine look tame! Geoff |
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Keith (Southend) wrote: My memory lets me down everytime. I'm finding my computer sometimes flashes into a blue screen (can never read this) then reboots. I think it maybe a windows or disk error. The first thing I want to try is Scandisk, which you run from DOS. How do you get to this point? F8 comes up with Uguru screen etc, F2 seem to not respond. A noddy guide would be appreciated. Thanks Right clicking on your drive C:\ and clicking on properties will bring up this box. Click check now and reboot as it won't scandisk an "opened" drive. Repeat this for all your drives if you have more than one. Also Look in your event log. Usually Windows will dump the blue screen into the event log. The information that you're looking for is the Stop Code. It looks like this: 0x00000000 0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000,0x00000000. then you can google it or trawl the m$ pages. Checking a drive: http://llandru.servehttp.com/image2.jpg Les -- Les Crossan, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear 54.95N 1.5W Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ - www.uksevereweather.org.uk |
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cupra wrote:
XP, 2000 etc....? (XP scandisk can be accessed by right clicking on the disk drive icon when you've gone into 'my computer' - select properties then tools and finally error checking) Blue screen can be caused by driver problems - have you installed new hardware recently? XP ~ thanks for that, I try to avoid doing such things until it becomes necessary, but of course when the time comes around I've forgotten what I did. I know the more times it crashes the more likely it is to do more damage to either the OS or the hardware. I doubt it's overheating of the CPU as I have a 120mm Heatsink on the Athlon 3400 which looking at 'Motherboard Monitor' rarely gets hotter than 50°c, atm is 45°c I ran Scandisk (Check disk) for my 'C' drive, as this is the main one with the operating system on, it didn't appear to throw up any errors, unless it corrected them in the background, it often does a quick Scan when it reboots after a crash and does find error and currupt files everytime it runs. I'll see how it goes for now. I don't think I've installed anything apart from Firefox 1.0.7 upgrade, which I find quite often crashes. I sometimes get the blue screen/reboot when I try to attach a file or grab something from my 'slave' disk. I read about the blue screen/driver issue, the next step if it happens again is to put the XP disk in and do a install/repair as it maybe possible some files have got corrupted. It was a thought that there maybe some bad clusters whre the swap files are which prompted me to run a scan disk. Again thanks for your help -- Keith (Southend) 'Weather Home & Abroad' http://www.southendweather.net |
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Brian Wakem wrote:
You could install linux (no blue screens) and use a journalled filesystem like ext3 (default on most installs) which will avoid those issues and does not require defragging. If I knew what I was doing better, I'd go along with you on this one. Would all my Windows software work with it, Word, Excel etc and other windows applications? -- Keith (Southend) 'Weather Home & Abroad' http://www.southendweather.net |
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Keith (Southend) wrote: Brian Wakem wrote: You could install linux (no blue screens) and use a journalled filesystem like ext3 (default on most installs) which will avoid those issues and does not require defragging. If I knew what I was doing better, I'd go along with you on this one. Would all my Windows software work with it, Word, Excel etc and other windows applications. Most m$ documents open quite happily in Open Office / Staroffice / Word Perfect all of which are available for stuffed penguin users. They live in c:\documents & settings\username\username's documents and can be pulled off to cd from there. Les -- Les Crossan, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear 54.95N 1.5W Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ - www.uksevereweather.org.uk |
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On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:32:42 +0100, Keith (Southend)
wrote: Brian Wakem wrote: You could install linux (no blue screens) and use a journalled filesystem like ext3 (default on most installs) which will avoid those issues and does not require defragging. If I knew what I was doing better, I'd go along with you on this one. Would all my Windows software work with it, Word, Excel etc and other windows applications? Have you considered an Apple Mac? No seriously... I have two and OS X is very stable *and* it can run Microsoft Office apps such as Word, Excel etc. What other Windows apps do you need to run? Users of Macs don't switch to Windows, but it does happen the other way. Don't dismiss Apple out of hand, it could be the best thing you ever decide to do. Gareth -- "Stupid Gravity!" Homer Simpson falling from a treehouse |
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Keith (Southend) wrote:
Brian Wakem wrote: You could install linux (no blue screens) and use a journalled filesystem like ext3 (default on most installs) which will avoid those issues and does not require defragging. If I knew what I was doing better, I'd go along with you on this one. Would all my Windows software work with it, Word, Excel etc and other windows applications? OpenOffice (free) will read/write word and excel files. It also works on windows so you could try it on there first http://www.openoffice.org/ If you have any corrupted word docs, openoffice is actually capable of recovering word documents that word itself cannot. Word and Excel can actually be made to run on Linux, but I wouldn't bother. My advice would be go to a newsagent and find a linux mag with a free copy of Mandriva. WH Smith currently have a special mag for £10 which is all about installing and using Mandriva, and Mandriva comes with the mag. You can't miss it, it has a giant penguin on the front. It'll walk you though dual booting too, so you can still use windows if you need to. -- Brian Wakem Email: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/b.wakem/myemail.png |
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Keith (Southend) wrote: Brian Wakem wrote: You could install linux (no blue screens) and use a journalled filesystem like ext3 (default on most installs) which will avoid those issues and does not require defragging. If I knew what I was doing better, I'd go along with you on this one. Would all my Windows software work with it, Word, Excel etc and other windows applications? If you don't know Linux and are reluctant to install it then get yourself a copy of knoppix which runs from the cdrom. I know quite a few that run the Mandrake (Mandriva?) dialect of the stuffed penguin too and they seem quite happy with it. Les -- Les Crossan, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear 54.95N 1.5W Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ - www.uksevereweather.org.uk |
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GBH wrote: -- Les Crossan, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear 54.95N 1.5W Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ - www.uksevereweather.org.uk Your wallpaper makes mine look tame! Geoff The Joy of, erm, Photoshop! Full image and some others like it on request - PG rated. (: Les -- Les Crossan, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear 54.95N 1.5W Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ - www.uksevereweather.org.uk |
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XP ~ thanks for that, I try to avoid doing such things until it becomes necessary, but of course when the time comes around I've forgotten what I did. I know the more times it crashes the more likely it is to do more damage to either the OS or the hardware. I doubt it's overheating of the CPU as I have a 120mm Heatsink on the Athlon 3400 which looking at 'Motherboard Monitor' rarely gets hotter than 50°c, atm is 45°c I ran Scandisk (Check disk) for my 'C' drive, as this is the main one with the operating system on, it didn't appear to throw up any errors, unless it corrected them in the background, it often does a quick Scan when it reboots after a crash and does find error and currupt files everytime it runs. I'll see how it goes for now. I don't think I've installed anything apart from Firefox 1.0.7 upgrade, which I find quite often crashes. I sometimes get the blue screen/reboot when I try to attach a file or grab something from my 'slave' disk. I read about the blue screen/driver issue, the next step if it happens again is to put the XP disk in and do a install/repair as it maybe possible some files have got corrupted. It was a thought that there maybe some bad clusters whre the swap files are which prompted me to run a scan disk. Again thanks for your help -- Keith (Southend) 'Weather Home & Abroad' http://www.southendweather.net The most probable cause of sporadic blue screens, lockups etc is a buggy device driver. Windows XP has a Driver Verifier Manager utility. To use this type verifier at the command prompt and select create standard settings. In the next dialog box select the type of driver you want to verify - unsigner drivers are almost certainly the problem. If your computer stops with ablue screen on the next start up you will see which is the offending driver together with an error code. To resolve the problem boot into safe mode (press F8) and disable or uninstall the offender. To disable the verifier run verifier and select delete existing settings or type verifier/reset at the command prompt. If you haven't got rid of the driver then this will have to be done in safe mode. This information has been taken from Windows XP inside out which is a Microsoft publication. More information is available at the Microsoft website so if you feel like running this utility it might be worth going there first at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevToo.../Verifier.mspx. Your problem may be elsewhere but this will at least eliminate any buggy drivers if they exist. Alan Alan |
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Alan Gardiner wrote:
The most probable cause of sporadic blue screens, lockups etc is a buggy device driver. Windows XP has a Driver Verifier Manager utility. To use this type verifier at the command prompt and select create standard settings. In the next dialog box select the type of driver you want to verify - unsigner drivers are almost certainly the problem. If your computer stops with ablue screen on the next start up you will see which is the offending driver together with an error code. To resolve the problem boot into safe mode (press F8) and disable or uninstall the offender. To disable the verifier run verifier and select delete existing settings or type verifier/reset at the command prompt. If you haven't got rid of the driver then this will have to be done in safe mode. This information has been taken from Windows XP inside out which is a Microsoft publication. More information is available at the Microsoft website so if you feel like running this utility it might be worth going there first at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevToo.../Verifier.mspx. Your problem may be elsewhere but this will at least eliminate any buggy drivers if they exist. Alan Alan Thankyou Alan, I've saved your post for reference. Early days yet, but since I ran Scandisk, I've not encountered the problem. I've set the computer not to restart, so the blue screen should reveal all. Fingers crosssed this won't be necessary. Thanks -- Keith (Southend) 'Weather Home & Abroad' http://www.southendweather.net |
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