Edit: Stop Error: 0x0000007E and other problems

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[Cephius]

Lol, where to start? Could be anything. Could be your ram crapped out, the power supply, the mobo, corrupted windows, pretty much anything. Pull everything non-essential out of the computer and see if anything changes. Boot with one stick of ram, no sound card, on board video (if your mobo has it) and everything detached. If nothing changes, you're gonna have to get your hands on a CD and try to reinstall the OS. You could try downloading PCLinuxOS, which boots from CD, and see if it starts. It's a good way to rule out hardware failure and get stuff off your hard drive.

[Avanarius]

potentially (and hopefully the easiest solution) is that it's just a corrupted boot.ini but either way you'll definitely need some sort of recovery cd to fix it.

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[Fallso]

What code does the BSOD give?

Also run the diagnostics for all the attached hardware. Shouldn't be the graphics cards, if you can see things on the screen when you boot up then the only thing which should give a BSOD is a driver error, which is unlikely. Installed anything new lately?

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[Fallso]

Any chance of whipping the hard-drive out and booting it in a different PC (or laptop if you have a USB adaptor)? That way you could see a bit deeper into the problem.

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[Tyr]

Don't mean to jack your thread, but I'm having the same BSoD problem.

I just copy/pasted FFXI onto my computer and editted the registry to bypass manually installing it (it would freeze on my computer), which is my biggest hint as to why I'm getting the stop error. Luckily, I made a system restore point prior to making any registry fixes.

The "Technical Information" I'm being given is as follows:

*** STOP: 0x00000024 (0x00190203, 0x86490820, 0xC0000102, 0x00000000)


Similar to OP, I can't boot my computer in either Safe Mode, Normal, or "Last Known Good Configuration."

I'm assuming there's no way to do anything until I get a hold of my recovery CD? And I'm running a DELL Inspiron 6000 Laptop, do I need the specific DELL CD, or any XP CP will work? I'm sure this question itself shows how novice I am when it comes to computers.

[Cephius]

Don't mean to jack your thread, but I'm having the same BSoD problem.

I just copy/pasted FFXI onto my computer and editted the registry to bypass manually installing it (it would freeze on my computer), which is my biggest hint as to why I'm getting the stop error. Luckily, I made a system restore point prior to making any registry fixes.

The "Technical Information" I'm being given is as follows:

*** STOP: 0x00000024 (0x00190203, 0x86490820, 0xC0000102, 0x00000000)


Similar to OP, I can't boot my computer in either Safe Mode, Normal, or "Last Known Good Configuration."

I'm assuming there's no way to do anything until I get a hold of my recovery CD? And I'm running a DELL Inspiron 6000 Laptop, do I need the specific DELL CD, or any XP CP will work? I'm sure this question itself shows how novice I am when it comes to computers.

Looks like corrupted your hard drive somehow, stop 24 is a ntfs file system error. To remedy this you will need a Dell XP reinstallation CD. Any XP CD should work, you just need to get to the recovery console. To do this, boot from the CD, press R when prompted, type in your administrator password if needed, and from the command prompt type

chkdsk /r

And your computer will start checking your drive for errors and fix as needed. This will take awhile but should fix your problem.

Related Microsoft article: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms793935.aspx

[Tyr]

Halp me BG, you're my only hope

Help is on the way

Thanks man, I can't wait to get a hold of my CD to get this done...Any XP CD should work you say? Because I don't think I have my Dell CD at home...

[Cephius]

Yeah, you only need to access the recovery console and run the check disk utility, something which is native to every XP CD. Should you have to reinstall windows though, it's better to use the Dell CD because it comes with many extra drivers that are native to Dell systems.

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