Blue Screen Of Death

[Element of Water]

My computer just restarted spontaneously this morning, and now whenever it boots up it goes onto the blue screen for a tiny instant before restarting again. I've tried safe mode and most recet settings that worked, and nothing's changed. When I opened up my computer it was full of dust, so I cleaned it out, if that information helps, but it still won't boot up.

I'm running Windows XP.

Any advice on how to fix it would be greatly helpful.

 

[The Reborn Devil]

The only thing I could think of would be to reformat your computer. Of course, there is that possibility that the dust inside your computer has done some damage, but I doubt it.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Sounds like you've got yourself a virus, mate.

 

[BlargHonk]

Does it load the Bios?

or does it just go straight Blue

 

[Vulcano]

a broken fan could cause it, i had the same problem on an old computer.

 

[BlargHonk]

a broken fan could cause it, i had the same problem on an old computer.

Well, if it loads the BIOS it probably isn't the fan, seeing as how that problem was a short most likely

 

[Squiggy]

Aye, just download this: http://www.plop.at/en/ploplinux.html and boot from the cd.
After, run a virus scan on your windowspartition to check if you got infected.

If that doesn't help and if you got a DELL PC, press ALT+E+F+B in the bios to reassign all your components.

If you can't even run the live-cd, the problem may be related to the graphics card, which might be used up/broken.

 

[memzak]

funny you should mention that, my friend got the Blue Screen of death and I suggested to him to do something very similar...

 

[Pyritie]

funny you should mention that, my friend got the Blue Screen of death and I suggested to him to do something very similar...

It's a good strategy

 

[BlargHonk]

Might not be the OS however

 

[Element of Water]

It's fixed! I just reinstalled windows. The problem then, however, was that all my drivers went missing. So no net connection for ages. And my laptop got the same problem (so it was probably some network virus) shortly after I posted this so I couldn't look at this thread. I guess it could help people in the future though.

 

[BlargHonk]

Ah... that explains your absence.