What was this?

[Newbie]

My computer is windows xp pro.

A month or two back my computer suddenly went blue with following message.

"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent
damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your
computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps;

Check to be sure you have adequate disk space. If a driver is identified in
the stop message, disable the driver or check with the mfg. or driver
updates. Try changing video adapter.

Check with your hardware vendor for any BIOS updates. Disable BIOS memory
options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use safe mode to remove
or disable components, restart your computer press F8 to select Advanced
starting options, and then select safe mode."


After that I use to get intermittently this BSOD. There was adequate disk
space. There was no stop message except above and no driver was identified.
I could not find any memory option such as caching and shadowing in BIOS.

Now the BSOD again happened, and this time around I could not restart my
computer.

I had to format the hard disk to start the computer again.
In the process I have lost quite a bit of data which I had not backed up.

I know the whole thing has become a bit lengthy, and I should have come here
in the first instant of BSOD occurring.

But I will highly grateful if somebody can suggest me what should I have
done to prevent this BSOD.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Provide the exact error message that accompanied the BSOD, or look up
distinctive parts of it by enclosing the terms within double quotation marks
in Google.

That look like a memory problem. Try running the PC in Safe Mode - run a
utility such as Defrag - to find out if the problem occurs.

If it doesn't then it's most probably a software problem that can be cured
by using one or more of the recovery options listed on this page:

http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/RecoveringXP.htm

If it happens in Safe Mode, then it's probably a hardware issue.

You can use Memtest to test the memory - http://www.memtest86.com/

Your hard drive manufacturer's site has utilities that can test one of its
hard drives.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My computer is windows xp pro.

A month or two back my computer suddenly went blue with following
message.
"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to
prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen,
restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these
steps;
Check to be sure you have adequate disk space. If a driver is
identified in the stop message, disable the driver or check with
the mfg. or driver updates. Try changing video adapter.

Check with your hardware vendor for any BIOS updates. Disable BIOS
memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use
safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer
press F8 to select Advanced starting options, and then select safe
mode."

After that I use to get intermittently this BSOD. There was
adequate disk space. There was no stop message except above and no
driver was identified. I could not find any memory option such as
caching and shadowing in BIOS.
Now the BSOD again happened, and this time around I could not
restart my computer.

I had to format the hard disk to start the computer again.
In the process I have lost quite a bit of data which I had not
backed up.
I know the whole thing has become a bit lengthy, and I should have
come here in the first instant of BSOD occurring.

But I will highly grateful if somebody can suggest me what should I
have done to prevent this BSOD.

Sounds like possible hardware issues.
Did you use the manufacturer's (the hard disk manufacturer) diagnostic tools
to check the drive for errors thoroughly?
How about your memory?

 

[MAP]

My computer is windows xp pro.

A month or two back my computer suddenly went blue with following
message.

"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent
damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart
your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps;

Check to be sure you have adequate disk space. If a driver is
identified in the stop message, disable the driver or check with the
mfg. or driver updates. Try changing video adapter.

Check with your hardware vendor for any BIOS updates. Disable BIOS
memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use safe
mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer press F8
to select Advanced starting options, and then select safe mode."


After that I use to get intermittently this BSOD. There was adequate
disk space. There was no stop message except above and no driver was
identified. I could not find any memory option such as caching and
shadowing in BIOS.

Now the BSOD again happened, and this time around I could not restart
my computer.

I had to format the hard disk to start the computer again.
In the process I have lost quite a bit of data which I had not backed
up.

I know the whole thing has become a bit lengthy, and I should have
come here in the first instant of BSOD occurring.

But I will highly grateful if somebody can suggest me what should I
have done to prevent this BSOD.

Thanks

If it happened two months ago and hasen't happened again then don't worry
about it.
Sh_t happens.

 

[Newbie]

Thanks for your replies.