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22-Dec-2008, 03:52 AM #1
Exclamation Blue Screen + Disk Boot Failure
Hi,
About 2-3 weeks ago my computer started playing up, i switched it on and it came up with disk boot failure, so i restarted the computer and it started up fine.. a few days later i got a blue screen message, didn't have enough time to read it, ever since the computer starts up to disk boot failure and i restart and it works, i do that every day to use it. Today however i restarted and it was freezing, wouldn't let me into BIOS setup, or anything, but after a few restarts it worked again.. about 10minutes ago the computer came up with a blue screen as i left the room, i didn't have enough time to see all of it but i got, 0x000000f4 (0x00000003 ..... couldnt get the rest, and something about physical memory dump. i had to restart again about 3 or 4 times before it worked, and when i got through the computer froze.. My specs are


Pentium 4, 3.01ghz
2 x 1gb ram.
300gb WDC WD3200 IDE hdd
150gb ST3160815a IDE hdd
2 x HL-DT-ST-DVDRAM SATA
Nvidia geforce 5200 pci-e
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22-Dec-2008, 01:27 PM #2
Sounds like you have either a bad HDD or some bad memory. I'd go to http://www.memtest.org and grab a memtest to test your memory and then navigate to both both western digitals site and seagates site and grab their disk diagnostic utilities to test your hard drives.

Good Luck!
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