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Vostro 1700 Blue Screen of Death

  • 10-09-2009 1:20pm
    #1
    Rowley Birkin QC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,269 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I'm out of the country at the moment and my laptop is my primary means of communication home so I would appreciate any and all help.


    It's a Vostro 1700 with Vista and AVG Free installed as an AV. When I try to start the laptop I get the blue screen of death, when I restart and go to boot menu nothing works, any of Safe modes or Normal boot. They all start to boot and then I can see a flash of the blue screen and the machine restarts.

    I tried the built in repair option just now and got the blue screen with the following message; Stop C0000142 {DLL Initialization Failed} Initialization of the dynamic link library winsrv failed. The process is terminating abnormally.

    I've run the system diagnostics "Test for Blue Screen" and they've come back with three failures;

    Two errors showing unreadable data error or media is write protected and the other about an IDE device failure. Any ideas??


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    it could be a hard drive failure? Have you tried booting from the cd drive with a linux live boot cd? You can download ubuntu and burn it to a disc.


  • #3
    Rowley Birkin QC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,269 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    Hard drive failure? As in total loss of data? I have a lot of stuff backed up but still that would be pretty ****.

    I only have access to my girlfriends NC10 at the moment which lacks a CD drive, can that UBUNTU programme be booted off a USB key?

    Thanks for the help.


  • #4
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    bigkev49 wrote: »
    Hard drive failure? As in total loss of data? I have a lot of stuff backed up but still that would be pretty ****.

    I only have access to my girlfriends NC10 at the moment which lacks a CD drive, can that UBUNTU programme be booted off a USB key?

    Thanks for the help.

    Yes it can, plenty of step by step guides on how to do it. I was only guessing that it was hard drive failure, or a failing hd, just had one in my netbook fail there two weeks ago, which had similar symptoms. I was able to recover most data though, so i'd say you're alright. Once in Ubuntu you should be able to access the drive, a ltitle bit of googling might be involved on occasion as it can get a little tricky sometimes.


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