Sob story - help!

[Guest]

I had aproblem with XP after years of trouble free running - just kept
getting the BSOD every time when booting. To cut a long story short, I
decided it must be some sort of corruption on the HDD, so I reinstalled XP
with a formatting of the c: partition.
However, even that gives the BSOD when I try to boot even though it
installed OK!
I've tried MEMTEST, and that looks OK.
The CPU temp is OK.
I have a RAID setup with a c: partition (system and reformatted) and d:
untouched from previous install.
All BIOS settings are at default, and basically nothing has changed from the
setup that was working perfectly for some time.
What could be happening? I'm tearing my hair out - especially as I've lost
some critical data!

 

[Malke]

I had aproblem with XP after years of trouble free running - just kept
getting the BSOD every time when booting. To cut a long story short, I
decided it must be some sort of corruption on the HDD, so I reinstalled XP
with a formatting of the c: partition.
However, even that gives the BSOD when I try to boot even though it
installed OK!
I've tried MEMTEST, and that looks OK.
The CPU temp is OK.
I have a RAID setup with a c: partition (system and reformatted) and d:
untouched from previous install.
All BIOS settings are at default, and basically nothing has changed from
the setup that was working perfectly for some time.
What could be happening? I'm tearing my hair out - especially as I've
lost some critical data!

There was no need to lose critical data - you should be backing up
regularly. Without having the Stop Error (the text on the blue screen
page), it's impossible to give you focused troubleshooting. Next time,
write it down and research it here:

http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

You can also look in Event Viewer for clues:
Start>Run>eventvwr.msc [enter]

Otherwise, review these hardware troubleshooting steps:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Troubleshooting

If you followed the Memtest procedures and already cleaned out your
computer, then you can skip those parts.

Malke