System screwed... please help!

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I get home from work today, and my wife tells me that she has been having problems with her computer. Says that she can't open Outlook or Excell, and that she was having problems copying data from a DVD to her hard drive. I asked her if she had rebooted to see if that would fix it, and she said no. So I rebooted it to see if that would clear things up. Now it is FUBAR.

It posts just fine, and then flashes a blue screen and reboots. It then gives the standard options of startup, and I have tried "with last know working configuration" and safe mode. Neither of which work.

The error I am getting is:

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

*** STOP: 0x0000007B


I have booted from Knoppix and accessed the hard drive with no problem. I haven't run any virus scans because I don't have any bootable ones, and trendmicro's online one won't work with anything but IE.

I removed a stick of ram, and then the other to no avail.

BIOS reports temps and voltages as normal.

I'm about to try her HDD in another computer to see if it will boot on another machine.

Please give me some suggestions of how to fix this miserable bastard.


Sys Specs:

Abit NF7-S
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
GeForce 6600GT
WD 80GB SE HDD
1GB Corsair XMS
2 optical drives
Antec True 430
 
Try running diagnostics on your hard drive if possible. Sounds like a virus or hard drive might be failing. Clear CMOS if you can, too.
 
Aye it's obviously a hard drive problem if you've tested it elsewhere. One thing ot check would be to make sure you didn't fuxxar that computer too
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I doubt that though.

Usually I reformat when things are going wrong like this, so that's my only useful advice... other than that.... good luck!
 
Why dont you try running memtest on each stick of ram?

Try loading bios defaults if possible before running memtest

oldmx
 
Funny, I got the same message about three times on my dad's PC for the past four years with the same HD. I did the same thing that you did (I used SUSE because I don't know enough about Linux) and ended up formating his machine.

Best of Luck to ye matie, yargh!
 
Well, I scanned the main partition for viruses and came up with none. I decided to go ahead and reformat that partition and reinstall Windows. When I booted up with the Windows disc, I was going to try to do a "repair" installation. It saw all my partitions, but did not recognize that Windows XP was already installed on the main partition. It tells me that there is another operation system already there, but doesn't give me the option to repair it.

What in the world could have caused this problem?
 
My guess is the hard drive is dying for one reason or another. Unfortunately, there's not really any great way to test this. Wait... Don't most HDD manufacturers have bootable hard drive tests? You might try running one of those.


P.S. You're not overclocking, are you?
 
Well, I'm done reinstalling Windows. Everything is fine now, and thankfully, all my other partitions are intact. Didn't lose any data. We will just have to go through the long and painfull process of reinstalling all the apps.

I did load up AIDA and run a S.M.A.R.T. check on the HDD. It gives it a clean bill of health. I do wonder whether or not it is the HDD beginning to fail, or whether the Windows installation just got corrupted. I hate to think that I will have to replace a HDD in the near future.
 
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