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BSOD (I think) after plugging usb stick into port.

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  • 15-03-2013 12:54am
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    Mister Jingles
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    Plugged a usb stick into my laptop the other day and a minute later something which might or might not have been the BSOD came up. The was loads of grey writing with something to do with memory dump. In a panic I knocked off my laptop's power then restarted it and everything was grand.

    This isn't the first time to happen to me though, last time it happened my laptop was reading a missing operating system and any time I tried to boot up, normal and safe mode i was getting the blue screen of death. I ended up loosing everything on my hard-drive and had to have the laptop set back to factory setting.


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    yoyo
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    Did you have iTunes open at the time?

    Nick

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    Mister Jingles
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    Can't say for definite but yeah most likely.

    Last time it happened to me though was after i removed a zip program from my laptop, it asked me to restart the system. Then when I came back a minute later after I let it restart ''Missing Operating System'' was on the screen. I had a USB plugged in at this time also.


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    Torqay
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    Mister Jingles wrote: »
    Last time it happened to me though was after i removed a zip program from my laptop, it asked me to restart the system. Then when I came back a minute later after I let it restart ''Missing Operating System'' was on the screen. I had a USB plugged in at this time also.

    I don't think this is related to your BSOD. Some systems do that if a non-bootable USB stick is plugged in. I've seen this a few times, mostly DELLs, IIRc.


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    Mister Jingles
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    So it would be good practice to unplug any usb before i shut down or restart my system ?


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    yoyo
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    I used to experience similar BSODs when I inserted a certain USB Key and had iTunes running. I also saw random BSOD issues recently on a machine I built for someone, and they were being caused by iTunes (hardware and other tests passed) hence the possibility it could be linked to that program. I would recommend shutting down iTunes when you insert a USB Key and see if it helps. If you reboot the computer and your USB key is inserted the computer may think it is a bootable hard drive, and that could cause the missing boot loader error message

    Nick

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