Vista blue screen of death

Well, for the past week my laptop (in sig) has been taking a long time to boot up a lot of the time. I think my dad installed some VHS to DVD converter software, so then one night my laptop just closed all my programs and shut off. Then when I turn it back on it goes through the black greens of "would you like to do a system check" so I do. After that I go about then to log in. When it gets to the login screen, when I would click on my profile it would take a good few minutes for it to register that I have clicked it. Then another few minutes between going from clicking profile to putting in my password.

I would then put my password in, with the letters being delayed as I typed them. It would then take another few minutes to get to logged in. When I get logged in everything was fine. I would do this a number of times in the past week.

So about yesterday going through the whole login process I get a blue screen. I restart the laptop, no problems at all. So today after I turned off my laptop to clean it off, then as turning it on I get another Blue Screen. So I restart and get the same thing, then it brings me to a menu with 2 options: Run a diagnostics on the system, or Run system. So I do the diagnostics and it didn't do much. Then im put back to this screen with the 2 options and I click run system, it then brings me back to the blue screen. I can't even run it in safe mode.

Any help?
(sorry for the long wall of text)

 

None of the safe mode options work for you? Hmmm. What error message is displayed on the BSOD?

 

I'm not sure if safe mode works because I don't know how to get into it (guess by that It doesn't)

And where is the error message on the Blue screen? Technical information?

 

When Windows starts to boot, press F8.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/323ef48f-7b93-4079-a48a-5c58eec904a11033.mspx

If you can boot into safe mode, I would do a virus/malware scan. If nothing is found, see what was installed around the time that this problem started.

Copy down everything that appears on the BSOD and post it here.

 

Well when I press F8 it says Windows loading files, then a loading bar below that, after that it goes to the BSOD, this is what the BSOD says:

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

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

If this is the first...fallow these steps:

Check to make sure any new hardware...or software manufacturere for any windows updates you might need.

If the problems continue, disable...restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced startup options, then select safe mode.

Technical information

Stop: 0x00000050 (0xFFFFF98067A54184, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffff8000D04, 0x0000000000000005)
EDIT: managed to press F8 and got to the screen with the Advanced Bootup otptions. When I click run in safe mode, it will go through loading some files then take me to the BSOD

 

Use your Vista installation disc and boot into the recovery console. Run a chkdsk c: /r

 

I ran the chkdsk c:/r and it went through, and at the end I got this message

Windows has checked the file system and found no problems
(some numbers containing bites)

Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.

 

Try doing this:

chkdsk c:

Then, do this:
chkdsk c: /f /v


The first is a general check disk (I don't expect to see anything special, but you never know). The second is a check disk plus a fix file system errors. The /v means verbose, so you'll get more output as the scan is completed.

 

When I did the chksk c: I got the same thing as before with the c:/r
Same with the chkdsk c: /f/v

In both of the commands right after I type them I get this:
The type of the file sytstem is NTFS.
Volume Label is HP_RECOVERY.

 

Try a clean install, but my take is that your hard drive is failing!

cheers ...

 

I agree - I think the drive is failing, too. However, I would try to repair the OS before doing a clean install.

 

Try using "sfc /scannow" in recovery

 

Some how I managed to log into to windows and im posting this. Later im going to buy an external hard drive and back everything I need up. Then wipe the hard drive and do a clean install.

Right now my Control Panel doesn't open also.

 

Well, enter the command prompt through windows, put your Windows CD in it, and use "sfc /scannow"

That command will look at all of your Windows installation files for errors and then replace them from the ones on your CD. If you're lucky, that may solve everything