BSOD on XP boot up

RaiderHammer

Hi need to try and fix my mum's laptop. It's showing a BSOD on every start up so never makes it to the Windows desktop.

Running Windows XD, which was pre installed so no disk.

Message on BSOD is

***x stop
0X000000ED
C0X853DAB58
0XC000006
0X00000000
0X00000000

Any ideas, already tried resore to last good session or something similar to that (can't remember the exact wording).

Thank you.

John_Gray

Have a look at this answer. It doesn't seem like good news...

TakeThis

Make and model?

pcombo

get an xp disk, stick it in, go to recovery console do. chkdsk /r

from microsoft.com

that dont work, format the drive

robmar0se

pcombo wrote: »

get an xp disk, stick it in, go to recovery console do. chkdsk /r

from microsoft.com

that dont work, format the drive

Good advice -if the chkdsk tells you that there are bad sectors, you will probably need to replace the hdd. Further you could try the fixmbr and/or the fixboot commands in the recovery console. However I suspect that you may well need a new hdd.

Good luck

danthemoneysavingman

i assume pressing F8 a lot during startup and trying safe mode also doesn't work?

RaiderHammer

danthemoneysavingman wrote: »

i assume pressing F8 a lot during startup and trying safe mode also doesn't work?

I pressed it once and tried to start in safe mode and that didn't help. Will try numerous presses tonight. Thank you.

RaiderHammer

pcombo wrote: »

get an xp disk, stick it in, go to recovery console do. chkdsk /r

from microsoft.com

that dont work, format the drive

XP was pre loaded on machine so no disc. I may have another XP disc here that I don't use now but the licence key would be different from the installed version. Would that work?

RaiderHammer

TakeThis wrote: »

Make and model?

Packard Bell... Not sure on the model but it's pretty old. Will see if there is a model number tonight.

robmar0se

Any XP disk would work for getting into the recovery console.

RaiderHammer

robmar0se wrote: »

Any XP disk would work for getting into the recovery console.

Thanks will it be a case of just following on screen instructions then?

I put the disc in laptop and then re-boot is that correct?