can't boot up after BSOD

This is my first post , and i have searched everywhere trying to find a solution to this BSOD problem. I have a gateway notebook I purchased July 2007, and i have had the BSOD many times but have always been able to resolve it by going in and doing a system restore. THIS TIME IT IS A NIGHTMARE !!!! I have read and tried everything. When I try to restart my laptop it goes to a BSOD no matter where I try to start from and yes I have tried F8 and gone through all those. I have gone as far as trying to do a complete reinstall with the cd. Anyone have any suggestions.

 

You said that you did a complete system restore from the recovery CDs and you are still getting the BSOD? It could be bad RAM or a bad HDD.

 

Could be your hard drive. Have someone do a scan to see if sectors are bad. sometimes install can go through the process but when the time comes to launch, its a bust.


Edit: What ^^ he said

 

Try resitting your ram, make sure everything is in tight.

 

I did that last night and did'nt help.... this happened after i ran a virus scan early sunday morning about an hour later BSOD!!!! i have another gateway laptop purchased at the same time and have never had a BSOD??? can i use the 2nd one some how to reboot where i can do a system restore?

 

It may be a virus? Just guessing, you could try your hard drives out of your other gateway, or worst case reload the os.

 

on trying to reinstall with cd it goes to a BSOD before i can install. about 3 times i have been able to get a logg in screen. the last time it locked up.

 

Hmmm, If your other Gateway Laptop is similar, I guess try the hd out of that, see if it will load up, if it Blue Screens, then you have some kind of Hardware failure.

 

Get an external enclosure for your "bad" laptops hard drive. Hook it up to your good laptop and reformat the drive.

After that run a scan disk (or even HDTunes disk scanner) to make sure your not just dealing with a really blotched up hard drive.

The simple truth is sometimes hard drives fail... and really for no good reason. I have a hard drive from 1997 that still works (though its stupidly tiny) in a win 95 box. But i have also had 2 hard drives over my computing life die on me with in a year. It sucks, but theres nothing you can really do about it.

Post back with your Hard Drive scan results
And since your from alabama i like you already

 

Kamin Majere
what is an external enclosure . How do I Hook it up to good laptop and reformat the drive.

 

Basically its an external hard drive... with out the hard drive. It lets you take your own drive and put what you want to in it. But they are also brilliant for trouble shooting bad hard drives.

Not sure where in AL you are so i cant give you a good idea where to go. But Best Buy or Circuit City or some other chain stores should have one for a 2.5in disk. If you can wait Tiger Direct and Newegg probably have better prices (but again you have to wait)