PC won't boot - Blue Screen of Death!

JasX

You should get your data off first.

Do you have access to another PC -ideally desktop?

With a small screwdriver the laptop hard drive will be readily removable, if you're lucky and its a SATA drive (L-shaped connectors) you can hook it up directly inside the desktop PC and pull your data off. If its an IDE drive (lots of pins -in older machines) you'll need either a suitable 2.5" IDE drive caddy (from about £7) or adapter board (£2 on ebay) to do the same.

EDIT: seen your latest post, good news is it sounds like a software issue and as you have the code will be able to reinstall XP, get your data sorted and we can move from there

almacmil

It's a desktop that down - I'm on a work laptop just now so taking it to pieces isn't an option.....

Browntoa

try unplugging all usb devices from it , printers etc

almacmil

Browntoa wrote: »

try unplugging all usb devices from it , printers etc

Still no joy....

JJ_Egan

Can you get into the BIOS and set it to failsafe or default settings that may allow booting into windows for repair .
F2 on Dell i think for BIOS
jje

codheadling

you can download and burn a recovery cd from herehttp://forums.pcpitstop.com/index.php?/topic/150212-boot-to-recovery-console-wo-xp-cd/
this only contains and will only load the xp recovery console,when prompted press r for recovery,if it asks for administrator password hit the enter key then type chkdsk /r then hit enter again,hopefully this will repair any faults.If your desktop has a floppy drive you can download the same files from microsoft but they only offer the option to create them on 6 floppy disks http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994
hope this helps

Browntoa

or ANY XP cd will allow you to boot and repair, just don't use it to re-install

I've got Dell Xp pro Cd's off ebay for about a tenner (must be dell to allow it to authenticate with no problems)

almacmil

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Can you get into the BIOS and set it to failsafe or default settings that may allow booting into windows for repair .
F2 on Dell i think for BIOS
jje

Got into set up via F2 but BIOS settings aren't changable?

Under Maintenance I found Error Log showing Type: POST error, Data: keyboard

almacmil

Update:

I can get into F12 Boot menu and from there into Utility Partition. Does that offer any options? Or should I just boot with the recovery console disc I've created?

codheadling

leave the recovery cd in the drive and choose the option to boot from the cd