Computer Issue, Need Some Major Help

[VF 31 ●]

ok so i woke up today and turned on my comp, everything was working normal. same with last night,then randomly while on a safe site i got the blue screen of death. telling me windows encountered a problem, etci tried starting in safe mode even though i didnt know what i was gonna do once there, but the blue screen came back.this seems totally randomly and im quite pissed and havent a clue what to do next, can anyone please help me out. i have a dell dimension 8400, windows xp.i didnt install anything new at all recently. why is this happening?<img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"\" border=\"0\" alt=\"sad.gif\" />

[Deadguy71 ●]

Honestly? Sounds like a Hardware fault. Check to make sure your cards and stuff are plugged in and haven't been shaken loose.If you're lucky.. that's all it is.. Did you have any symptoms prior to this one? like mouse working weird or anything? I ask because it seems wrong to just throw a guess out to suggest it might be like the video card. Hopefully it's not your motherboard or something, but with no way to test it, from here, I'm hoping there might have been some symptoms you haven't mentioned, which would help one of the gurus figure it out and pin it down better than I could.Like could it be overheating? does it happen every time you boot up.. does it get past boot-up and THEN trigger?

[VF 31 ●]

it was working perfectly, ive had zero problems before this.i opened it up and made sure everything was in all the way and it still coming up.so yea.

[auzorann ●]

<!--quoteo(post=333058:date=Oct 5 2009, 02:54 PM:name=VF 31)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (VF 31 @ Oct 5 2009, 02:54 PM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=333058\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecok so i woke up today and turned on my comp, everything was working normal. same with last night,then randomly while on a safe site i got the blue screen of death. telling me windows encountered a problem, etci tried starting in safe mode even though i didnt know what i was gonna do once there, but the blue screen came back.this seems totally randomly and im quite pissed and havent a clue what to do next, can anyone please help me out. i have a dell dimension 8400, windows xp.i didnt install anything new at all recently. why is this happening?<img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"\" border=\"0\" alt=\"sad.gif\" /><!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndno new programs or hardware at all? anything as small as flash or an update.what does the bsod tell you? should be some words and a lot of numbers at the top. if the bsod flashes really fast and then reboots you need to go to control panel > system > advanced tab and under startup and recovery click the settings button. now just uncheck automatic restart. this will leave the bsod up unit you restart manually. then you can write the numbers down.

[VF 31 ●]

i cant get my comp to startup at all. so i cant change or check anything, absolutly no new programs or anything have been installed,the only info other than the directions on the blue screen is thisIRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL***stop: 0x0000000a, 0x0000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x804DC11Dand i have no idea what any of that means.

[sirbrad ●]

I have a dimension 9200 and got this. Eventually I had to reinstall windows XP completely and it sucked. But luckily I back everything up because this happened to me many times before on other pc's. Reinstalling is a major beeeoootch and takes forever, then you have to set everything up and reinstall all programs again. You may be heading in that direction if you keep getting the screen. I have windows XP as I reverted back because Vista sucked for gaming. Back up all files now!

[alvanaxe ●]

Best bet is to do a reinstall as Sirbrad had recomended.See here: <a href=\"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341\" target=\"_blank\">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341</a> for the process.It sucks but it happens....good luck!~

[VF 31 ●]

well i cant back up anything cuz i cant get to the desktop, it doesnt even let me boot in safe mode. and had no idea this was gonna happen. so i guess im screwed. i feel like breaking something.

[ullilein ●]

<!--quoteo(post=333068:date=Oct 5 2009, 03:26 PM:name=VF 31)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (VF 31 @ Oct 5 2009, 03:26 PM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=333068\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecwell i cant back up anything cuz i cant get to the desktop, it doesnt even let me boot in safe mode. and had no idea this was gonna happen. so i guess im screwed. i feel like breaking something.<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndDont reinstall yet.. take the cover off ur case and make sure all connections are tight and all cards and ram are secure and reboot. If you still cant load up start to unplug one piece of hardware at a time. Start with the cd rom and work ur way to nic cards video card if you have a secondary installed ( juts make sure u plug ur monitor onto the onboard connection. If none of this works please PM me I'm almost sure I can get you up and running with out having to do a restore.

[Chainsaw ●]

It could be something simple as bad RAM. If your system uses two sticks of RAM, remove one and reboot. If it doesn't work swap out the sticks and reboot with the second stick. If you know what type of RAM it uses maybe pick up a cheap stick and give it a shot.... or borrow one if you can just to try. Otherwise you may have to take it to a computer shop. Things like this can be difficult to diagnose but RAM is an easy and cheap place to start. I've had a similar encounter with an old system and luckily it turned out to be bad RAM. Worth a shot.Good luck dude.