My computer might be on the fritz

[cletus-factor]

I'm hoping someone can tell me, I got a blue screen when I turned it on this morning 2 times in a row, and I'm such an idiot I didn't write down the error code. It did say something about it could be a driver (I'm thinking vid card, since I just installed WoW) or a hard drive being too full, but I have 50/80 gigs used. It came back on normally the 3rd time I turned it on, so I'm backing up all my files just in case.

 

[FeatherDaemon1]

I'm hoping someone can tell me, I got a blue screen when I turned it on this morning 2 times in a row, and I'm such an idiot I didn't write down the error code. It did say something about it could be a driver (I'm thinking vid card, since I just installed WoW) or a hard drive being too full, but I have 50/80 gigs used. It came back on normally the 3rd time I turned it on, so I'm backing up all my files just in case.

This is just my guess.

Sounds like it could be a hard drive issue to me. If it were a video card I don't see it working on the third try. You could have some bad sectors on the drive. After you installed WoW your computer's virtual memory hit one the bad sectors.

I had a similar issue when one of my drives started to crap out.

There's no way its too full 30 gigs is plenty of space.

 

[johnttickle]

This sounds like when my hard drive on an old computer went out. I could get it to run about every other try, and then it was every 5th try and so on, till it just didn't run any more. I had to get a tech to back up my files on a external hard drive. So it would be a good idea to back up everything on an external hard drive or disks or something before you won't be able to get it to run again.
Good Luck,
Aloha, John😉

 

[cletus-factor]

Bah

Crap, well if it's anyone's knowledge the stop message was:

0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0x00000000, 0xF7C77FD8, 0xF7C77CD4)

 

[cletus-factor]

Oh, and yah when I downloaded WoW I finally broke the 50 gigs of hard drive space used after this machine's 4th year, so that probably didn't help eh?

 

[MistressValerie1]

Try running a checkdisk: Start> Run> type in chkdsk c: /f (assuming that c: is your hard disk drive) then press Enter and answer Y in the dialog box that will appear, then restart. It *might* fix the problem or at least buy you some time.

 

[cletus-factor]

Hey thanx I'll do that, system just needs to last until mid August, because the blue screen of death forced my hand yesterday to buy a new PC, which is what I had been planning sometime this next year anyway.