How do I get rid of the blue screen of death (BOSD)?

Question

So, last night..I let my little sister and her friend on my computer.

Then I got on..everything was working perfectly and normal.

I went to bed and woke up to a blank screen.

I then restarted my computer, and it went into the screen where it asks you if you want to load in safe mode..normally..the last settings that worked etc.

I tried all of them, it ended in either, BOSD, or restarting again and again and again.

After about an hour of tampering with it, i got fed up and booted from XP disc to format. (I just did this about 3 weeks ago so I had no needed personal files.)

I deleted Partition1 which was what i was running on, and continued to reinstall XP.

It finishes formatting the new partition and begins to copy files.

I then run into a bunch of errors how certain files can't be found/copied.

After about 3 times of pressing enter (Retrying to find the file.) or skipping the files, the screen will flash and go to BOSD again.

How in the h**l do I fix this lol..

(Message was typed via school laptop.)

Answer 1

Could be a problem with device drivers, hardware or software. This  problem can be solved by uninstalling new softwares, updating device drivers and making minor configuration changes . From http://fixit.in/bluescreenofdeath.html . You can also run a free registry scan using utilities from http://re7.info

Answer 2

IF you get errors during XP install this is almost always memory problems.

Try removing all ram sticks from your PC and then reinstalling 1 stick..then run through the setup.

If it gets through the setup, remove that stick and try another, then reinstall windows. Extreme I know, but it's a good way to test. Alternately, you could find a floppy based mem test. If it's a dell or other mfg, they have diagnostics in the boot menu, for dell its F-12 at the dell logo.

Answer 3

If you were doing a quick format or a repair installation those will most likely not work. I would recommend fully formatting the drive using the "full format" option even though it takes longer and doing a full install, rather than a repair install.

If that does not work, you may need to have a tech look into it.  

Answer 4

The BSOD can be happen either due to faulty hardware or software. Of you are getting BSOD while booting up then this may be the case of daulty RAM. If you are getting BSOD while working then this means that the file system on to which the OS is installed is damaed.

You can do one of these things to recover from BSOD

* If your installed your pc to a fat32 partition, change into NTFS. Because Fat32 is more susceptible to crashing (Optional)

* Insert Windows CD and boot from CD

* When the blue "Welcome to the installation " screen comes press R

* Enter adminstrator user name and password if it asks

* on the command prompt type "chkdsk/r" (without quotes) and hit enter . This will reapir all damaged clusters

* Type in "chkdsk/p" and hit enter. This will chek the health status of the disk

*Once the checking is done exit and restart the PC

Answer 5

Hello,

Formatting your computer, can be activated if the host system can also try to resume

If you need help you can visit

http://www.Easy-Registry-Clean.info

Want to help you

Answer 6

you have to download "the ultimate boot cd" and completely wipe out the partion and reinstall windows

Answer 7

when you get the BSOD, you will get an error code, something like 0x000c0b20  write that down and go to microsoft.com and search for that sequence of numbers. it will tell you what is probably causing the issue.

you might get more than 1 sequence of numbers, but search for them separetely