Not carpc related but computer related. Help!!

**djurchicprelude** · 10-11-2009, 03:01 AM

On my home laptop I am running windows Vista (came with laptop) and yesturday all of a suddon I Got, I think its called the blue screen of death! I cant boot in any mode, not safe mode nothing. Just keep getting random blue screens before windows can shut down. THe most common blue screen I get Is Memory_Management. What could be causing this?? Honestly I am more worried about the data on the hard drive than the lappy. Does this mean my Hard Drive is done? Any way to fix this??

THanks!

**mentor** · 10-11-2009, 03:48 AM

1. Are you comfortable with removing/installing memory modules yourself?
2. If yes, do you have more than one memory module? Try to remove one memory module to see if it works.

The key is isolating the problem. Giving you an example -> I spent more than half a day installing windows 7 on a PC which shouldn't take more than 30 mins normally. The problem was it would install 90% of the way and come up with a bluescreen. After a million attempts I tried connecting my monitor via a VGA cable instead of a DVI and guess what installed fine. Connecting back to a DVI AFTER the install was fine but just not during it. And this was only on this particular PC.

The point of the above is there are times when things do not make sense. The only way to solve an issue in such a case is by trying to isolate the problem. Sometimes it might be completely unrelated (eg I'd have never guessed that a display cable could waste half of my day!)

Regarding losing your data, it should be fairly simple. If you do not have a spare laptop, get a USB HDD case for laptops < $10 on ebay. Make sure to get the appropriate version of the USB HDD case (eg SATA?). Remove your hardrive from the laptop, plug it in the case and connect it to another machine via USB and copy of all your data.

**DarquePervert** · 10-11-2009, 06:52 AM

Originally Posted by djurchicprelude

On my home laptop I am running windows Vista (came with laptop) and yesturday all of a suddon I Got, I think its called the blue screen of death! I cant boot in any mode, not safe mode nothing. Just keep getting random blue screens before windows can shut down. THe most common blue screen I get Is Memory_Management. What could be causing this??

Either a bad RAM module or a corrupted file on the HDD that Windows uses for memory management.

Honestly I am more worried about the data on the hard drive than the lappy. Does this mean my Hard Drive is done?

Probably not.

Any way to fix this??

THanks!

My suggestion is to download & burn Ultimate Boot CD. IT has lots of freeware utilities & diagnostic tools.
Run the memory tests fro that CD to see if there are any problems detected with your memory.

If there are no problems found with te RAM, then I suggest getting the data on the HDD backed up ASAP. If the HDD is beginning to fail, you're going to start seeing files get corrupted, which could mean loss of data.

**Tidder** · 10-11-2009, 10:59 AM

If your ram ends up testing good, it could still be a ram issue. Vista has this neat new feature called SuperFetch that preloads your system's ram with all kinds of... "useful" junk. It could be stressing out your memory to the point of bluescreening. If you can get into windows, try disabling the superfetch service and see if it improves anything.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/