Over 40 BSoD in one hour with XPS M1530.

Okay .. here's the deal.

Everything was working fine, until I decided to put a password on my user, so I went away for 10 minutes and once returned I clicked on Vista start-orb and everything freezed. Nothing worked, no ALT-CTRL-DEL, other buttons. So I held the power button and shut down.

Now, I'll start the comp and the first thing to happen right after loading BIOS is Blue Screen of Death, with message that something is wrong with hidusb.sys and win32k.sys on the second BSoD. And I tried basically everything I could with BIOS, disabled/enabled diffrent things and so on .. nothing helped.

By the way, most of the BSoD's I got came after the boot screen had loaded, and started loading the OS - right where it should take you to log-on screen, I got BSoD.

From event viewer I only see this :

Code:

The BCM42RLY service failed to start due to the following error: 
The system cannot find the file specified.

Basically I kept shutting down and powering on the lappy with diffrent settings, tryng to diffrent boot options and such for an hour .. and for some reason, the startup fix actually worked (after I had tried it for like 15 times with no success) - no BSoD! Then I saw messages that alot of files were corrupted and it started fixing them from the Recovery partition.

Now after I have logged on windows I see all my passwords etc are gone from the fields, everything else seems to be normal.

Hm so what should I do? Backup all my data and format? Perhaps something else? (No virus/malware scans needed, done that with everything already).

 

Back up to be safe and wait to see if it's fixed. If it does it again, you know what you have to do, otherwise, it may still be good to reinstall since who knows what else could have gotten messed up.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=246648

That might be a possible solution to the problem.