Windows XP blue screens and restarting?

Question

I posted this a few minutes ago and people asked for more details, so I got them.

My computer will, at a somewhat predictable interval (about after 5 minutes of being up), come up with an XP-style blue screen. The error message at the top varies between four or five different ones.

Sometimes it will restart automatically, sometimes it won't.

When it comes up again, the Windows error form thing comes up and sends Microsoft an error report - it then takes me to a screenw here it gives me two pieces of advice: update my video driver or slow down my hardware acceleration. There is no update to my driver, and I've slowed the acceleration down as much as it will go, but the problem persists.

The problem especially seems to happen right when I try to change my hardware acceleration.

I have an active full replacement warranty on her.

The computer is a 9-month old Toshiba P35 3.5GHz, with XP Home edition. I have absolutely no problems with her until four hours ago. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Use the Windows key + Pause/Break to bring up the System Properties window. Select the Hardware tab and Device Manager button. Under Display Adapters, right click your adapter (should be a Radeon Mobile 9700) and uninstall the device. Re-boot and let XP find and install the new hardware. Then don't mess with the acceleration. If it still gives you the BSOD take it back under warranty and let them worry about it.

By the way, your processor runs at 3.2 GHz not 3.5 GHz.

Answer 2

Call Toshiba and give them hell. It's more than likely it's Microsoft's fault, though. Usually, when something like that would happen to my PC, I would just re-install Windows XP. That seems to be the only good way to fix a Windows problem. I haven't had to do that since I've switched to Mac.

P.S. - Cuite, do you have to spam with every answer?

Answer 3

Buy yourself an antivirus product at your local superstore or borrow it from a friend. Put the CD in the CD-Rom drive and restart your computer. It will scan and heal your computer of known viruses.

Once you're back up and running go to http://free.grisoft.com and download AVG Free Personal Edition. Uninstall any antivirus you currently have on your computer, restart the computer, then intstall the AVG. Let it update to the newest virus definition and then run a full scan immediately.

Cheers,

pup

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Answer 6

Reformat the hard drive and re-install windows. If it keeps happening after that, it's a hardware problem and you should return the unit.