20+ x BSOD [Solved]

That is just fine.

Outpost and Avast have been installed.… (That's as far as I got when replying to your last post using the computer, as it froze up on me. This post was done from my IPhone. I was going to say that automatic updates tried to install 4 updates, but could not install KB2863058. After system rebooted it tried again to install update, but still could not do it.

So you cannot boot to your system at all?

Rebooted system but had to do a hard reboot by holding down the on/off button for about 5 seconds

From what it is that I am reading, this download is not a great big deal, but it concerns me that you are still getting BSODs and having to reboot your system. When was the last time you actually reinstalled your operating system fresh?

SP3 did download successfully as did Avast and Outpost. Although system seems to be running a little slow and there was the occasion that it froze on me in the middle of replying to a previous post. My last BSOD was only when I tried to run SP3 in safe mode WITH networking. But as I say, system seems to be OK'ish with networking in normal mode, at the moment. With regards to your question about reinstalling my operating system, it's something I have never considered as it seemed to me to be the last thing to consider. Also, to be truthful, I would not be sure how to go about it. But saying all that I am quite good at following instructions.

Yes you are good at following instruction. You have been doing very well and I appreciate your patience. Do you have your Windows disk by chance?

Yes, I do have my Windows XP disk, but have to run it off my DVD drive which is ok as I changed it in the bios to boot from dvd

When was the last time that you formatted your system and put a fresh copy of XP on it??

I have never formatted my system and put a fresh copy of xp on it.

Hi,

Ok no problem…..If this is a Windows XP system and you have never formatted it before, I take it that the computer is fairly old? Let's check and see if it is the hard drive.

Please download HD Tune (the free version not the trial), run an error scan on your primary harddrive (full not quick) and report back if any blocks aren't green. It tests your hard drive for bad sectors.

Hello Jeff First off, I would like to thank you for your continued support and also to let you know how grateful I am. This reply to you is sent from my iPhone, but as soon as I get home on Friday 20th Sept I will run the scan and post the results.

Ok that sounds like a plan.

Hi Jeff I ran the HD Tune scan (full scan) and am pleased to report back that all the blocks were green. HD Tune: Maxtor 6Y080L0 Error Scan Scanned data : 78135 MB Damaged Blocks : 0.0 % Elapsed Time : 40:06 HD Tune: Maxtor 6Y080L0 Health ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status (03) Spin Up Time 224 224 63 10234 Ok (04) Start/Stop Count 252 252 0 3334 Ok (05) Reallocated Sector Count 253 253 63 0 Ok (06) Read Channel Margin 253 253 100 0 Ok (07) Seek Error Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (08) Seek Time Performance 249 227 187 36112 Ok (09) Power On Hours Count 158 158 0 17991 Ok (0A) Spin Retry Count 253 252 157 0 Ok (0B) Calibration Retry Count 253 252 223 0 Ok (0C) Power Cycle Count 245 245 0 3199 Ok (C0) Power Off Retract Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C1) Load Cycle Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C2) Temperature 253 253 0 37 Ok (C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 253 252 0 1265 Ok (C4) Reallocated Event Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C5) Current Pending Sector 253 253 0 0 Ok (C6) Offline Uncorrectable 253 253 0 0 Ok (C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 199 199 0 0 Ok (C8) Write Error Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (C9) TA Counter Detected 253 241 0 87 Ok (CA) TA Counter Increased 253 252 0 0 Ok (CB) Run Out Cancel 253 252 180 0 Ok (CC) Soft ECC Correction 253 252 0 0 Ok (CD) Thermal Asperity Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (CF) Spin High Current 253 252 0 0 Ok (D0) Spin Buzz 253 252 0 0 Ok (D1) Offline Seek Performance 196 196 0 0 Ok (63) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok (64) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok (65) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok Power On Time : 17991 Health Status : Ok HD Tune: Maxtor 6Y080L0 Information Firmware version : YAR41BW0 Serial number : Y2DFN06E Capacity : 76.3 GB (~82.0 GB) Buffer size : 2048 KB Standard : ATA/ATAPI-7 Supported mode : UDMA Mode 6 (Ultra ATA/133) Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) S.M.A.R.T : yes 48-bit Address : no Read Look-Ahead : yes Write Cache : yes Host Protected Area : yes Device Configuration Overlay : yes Automatic Acoustic Management: yes Power Management : yes Advanced Power Management : yes Power-up in Standby : no Security Mode : yes Firmware Upgradable : yes Partition : 1 Drive letter : C:\ Label : Capacity : 78152 MB Usage : 79.04% Type : NTFS Bootable : Yes

That is good. That is telling us that your hard drive is in good condition. However, with all of the BSODs that you are having this is probably either a hardware or software problem. Let me keep looking and I will get back to you as quickly as I can.