green screen of death instead of blue screen of death.

[Steven Wabik]

does anyone know what the green screen of death is?
this is my first time getting the gsofd in my life time.
i have gotten the sbsod before but never the gsod.
can someone please help me look into this.


i just got it today on my evo laptop.
i usually startup my evo with the multibay battery in the multibay port
but this time i started it up differently.
i started it up with the multibay dvd-rom drive in the multibay port.
the od CD was in the dvd drive as well.
this was the 3rd time i started the evo with the dvd drive in it.
the first two times were when i originally installed the os
and when i needed to restart it after that.
i have started the evo with the ls-120 multibay drive in it without this
error.
how did i get the gsod this time around.
i have reimaged the evo a few times.
this is my most recent image install of xp.
the gsod appeared while the boot screen image was still running.
u know how the pc restarts after the bsod appears, well the pc does not
restart when the gsod appears.


does anyone think they are the samething or what?

 

[abright52]

You are going to have to elaborate....

Did it have any text on the screen?

Did it reappear upon a reboot?

 

[Steven Wabik]

it apeared while the boot screen was going.
it made that freeze up. you could sorrta see that in the background of it.
there was a hell of a lot of txt on the gsod compared to the bsod, like 3x
more.....
it was kinda overwelming for me to read it....
most of it was like an error message.
i don't remember what it said though. sorry.
anything else ya need to know?
any ideas?

 

[abright52]

Was it the XP Boot Screen or a boot screen for your motherboard?

It could be an error associated with your hardware, rather than XP
itself.

 

[Steven Wabik]

it was the xp boot screen.
maybe. or it could be a combination of both.
I'm leaning towards the hardware/ combination of both.....
the error happened when I booted up the pc with the DVD-rom multibay drive
instead of the multibay battery like I usually do.
my evo laptop is a phone model pc, ooo how ancient.....they don't make those
anymore.
i got the evo laptop before ho brought out compaq.
the laptop is like 6 years old.
some of the spare parts i have for it are older then the laptop itself, like
my pcmcia card.
i stopped using that though because i replaced the broken w200 WLAN
multiport module on the monitor.
the w200 is the only part i have for the laptop that is newer then it.
all the other parts are basicly from 1995. ecept for the ls-120 drive, which
is from 2002
and the DVD-RAM read drive that is from 05.
i still have the original dvd drive and two spares.
i also have two floppy drives as well.
the two spare dvd-rom drives and the two floppy drives are left over part
from the armada laptops i used to have.