My Laptop is after getting the blue screen of death again, possibly over a virus.

Tranceboy 2k

Hello,

While I was on the internet I got a new virus that I've never seen before, I don't remember the name, but it was something like ****nium (possibly alnium 'I'm not sure, and the icon in the tray is a red x, it was a very strong 1 that would not allow me to cancel in the warning message windows gives You for new programs.
And soon after I was runnin mcafee and while I was also dowloading something from a legit website, I got an error saying not enough room on disk and everything started to shut down.
May I also add that my computer was indeed nearly full to the brim, so maybe that could be causing the problem.

The message I'm getting is (A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent further damage to your computer.)

It won't even start in safe mode, and I pressed F8 for repair mode and system restore has no restore points and let me make 1 (because I won't be capable of undoing it.)

At the start the blue screen woud stay on until I turn it off, but now it only lasts a few seconds and it just reset's.

Can someone help please? I usually take it to a repair place if something like this happens, but it costs about 70euro and I think it could be quite simple, if I new what to do.

I haven't backed my HD up in a few weeks, so it would be great if I could keep everyting the way it is.

Thanks.

bhickey

If you can't boot up the machine up at all (even in safe mode) then you should probably :

1. Boot from a Live Linux CD like Ubuntu and use that to back your data up onto an external drive.

2. After you've got your data backed up, use something like Bitdefender Rescue CD to boot the computer and run a virus scan. That should provide a bit more info to go on.

3. If all else fails you might have to reinstall.

Tranceboy 2k

bhickey wrote: »

If you can't boot up the machine up at all (even in safe mode) then you should probably :

1. Boot from a Live Linux CD like Ubuntu and use that to back your data up onto an external drive.

2. After you've got your data backed up, use something like Bitdefender Rescue CD to boot the computer and run a virus scan. That should provide a bit more info to go on.

3. If all else fails you might have to reinstall.

Thanks, I'm downloading Ubuntu now, it'l take a while on my old laptop:(.
Do I burn it to a normall data disk for music etc, or will I need a blank DVD.

Cheers.

You can use a normal cd (700 mb) to burn it.

You mention that it is full to the rim. This is not good and leads to a lot of fragmentation problems, especially on windows systems.

When you get linux up and going, I would suggest transfer some Data if you can and give some space back.

Usually with a BSOD there is an error number, if you could note this down and maybe google it, it could lead to some more answers.

Also if you have a win installation cd, boot it up and follow instructions till where there is an option to 'repair', this might help, though yet again until the known problem is known this could be a waste of time.

Locate the hex value and google it.

Tranceboy 2k

NoDrama wrote: »

You can use a normal cd (700 mb) to burn it.

You mention that it is full to the rim. This is not good and leads to a lot of fragmentation problems, especially on windows systems.

When you get linux up and going, I would suggest transfer some Data if you can and give some space back.

Usually with a BSOD there is an error number, if you could note this down and maybe google it, it could lead to some more answers.

Also if you have a win installation cd, boot it up and follow instructions till where there is an option to 'repair', this might help, though yet again until the known problem is known this could be a waste of time.

Locate the hex value and google it.

I brought it to a repair shop in the end, I didn't want to mess with it, they said there was a prob with the HD, and it's fixed now.

Cheers.