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Blue screen of death

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  • 04-07-2020 8:24pm
    #1
    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭


    Running windows 7 on an old lap top the so called blue screen of death keeps coming up.
    There is loads of videos online how to fix but they involve getting past blue screen which I can’t
    Any help please


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,750 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Any error codes or a photo of the BSOD?


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    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Any error codes or a photo of the BSOD?

    Will post now


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    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    catrat12 wrote: »
    Will post now

    Hopefully this is ok


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,750 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Are you able to boot up in Safe Mode?


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    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Are you able to boot up in Safe Mode?

    I can get to safe mood and see options but that’s about it


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,750 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    catrat12 wrote: »
    I can get to safe mood and see options but that’s about it
    What do you mean about options? What options?
    Also how long has the BSOD been happening?
    Was anything in the PC changed before then (software or hardware)?


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,750 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Can you do any of the suggestions in this: https://recoverit.wondershare.com/computer-problems/fix-stop-0x000000f4-blue-screen-error.html


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    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    What do you mean about options? What options?
    Also how long has the BSOD been happening?
    Was anything in the PC changed before then (software or hardware)?

    I run safe mode and it keeps going to blue screen and no new hardware
    I will try below link thank you


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    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,747 ✭✭✭degsie


    Safe mode and select past restore point.


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    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    No none of that worked


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    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    I can get into settings using f2 or f12 on start up can anything be done from there


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    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    Tried everything nothing working can’t get into safe mood or anything


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    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,747 ✭✭✭degsie


    Try a live linux distro to see if that will boot up ok, this will at least verify if you have a hardware failure.


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    Welshprince
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭Welshprince


    It seems likely to be hardware related, probably an essential such as graphics chip, or it may be something fixable like Ram is not seated properly, if it is an old Laptop as you say, it would not be worth the expense of repairing, go buy a new one.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Looking at the logs will give a clue as to what is causing this, try
    https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html


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