Blue screen of death

[Dave Jackson]

P3, 800mh, Shuttle AV18E mthrbd

Iam getting the blue disk check screen on my 40 gig IBM
(fat32) hard drive,XP Home, which hangs if I dont
interrupt the time out on the blue screen.Otherwise the
machine will boot and run rather sluggishly,sometimes I
have to reset a couple of times because the boot hangs.
So I figured the drive was bad and installed a new WD 80
gig. I set the jumpers for the old drive to master and
the new drive to slave. formatted the new drive NSTF and
did a clean install of XP Home and all my software.Then
copied some data base files from the old drive to the
new. The machine will dual boot to either drive,
defaulting to the new one. Everything worked fine for
about a day, during which time I installed another
program and updated virus and did Windows Updates. next
day I get the same blue disk check screen on the new
drive and it still lists Fat32 at the top of the screen
even though the drive is formatted NSTF.I must have some
other problem besides the drive. Any clues?

Thanks
Dave Jackson

 

[Guest]

I had very similar problems that forced me to install a
new hard disk. As it turns out, the basis for all the
problems was a virus. I would update my virus software if
I were you and scan the disk right away. CompUSA also did
the new disk installation, and the virus came through to
the new disk.

Just a thought.

 

[Guest]

I have updated virus software(NAV) and scanned before and
after the new install. Could the virus be residing in
bios, or memory?

 

[Malke]

I have updated virus software(NAV) and scanned before and
after the new install. Could the virus be residing in
bios, or memory?

Do a RAM test - I like Memtest86 from www.memtest86.com. Download the
precompiled Windows version to make a bootable floppy. Boot with the
floppy and let the test run for a long time - overnight is best.

Malke