Need help!
I can't find any good solutions anywhere online, so I'm asking you guys. I've been reading some of the threads on this website and you seem to have your ducks in a row. So this is my problem:
I have a Toshiba Satellite P205. It has Vista Home Premium, and it ran quite nicely for a while. Then all of a sudden, it stopped working. Ran the Recovery Disks. Well that was all well and good, except for the fact that now there's another problem.
Once I get Vista to show up, the "Applying final configurations" program pops up, and a few seconds later the screen goes blank, and doesn't respond to anything. As in ANYTHING.
Then, the most recent time I rebooted it I got the "blue screen of not-goodness". What it said (after removing all the verbage and useless "liek omg ur comput3r crashed ftl" crap): "STOP 0x0000008e (0xC0000005, 0x8C716BD6, 0x8A8C0898, 0x00000000).
I did many searchings of t3h interwebz, and nothing was helpful. My dad (computer genius) told me to get to the start menu, type in "msconfig", and hit enter. Then select the second setting (don't remember what it said, but basically it turned off all unnecessary applications on re-boot.) That did absolutely nothing.
Also, I added another laptop hard drive that was sitting around (making sure that was a functional hard drive) and replaced the original one, using the rebuild disks on that hard drive as well. Same exact effects.
So my question to you guys is this: What can I possibly do to save this laptop? Is there anything?
TIA,
mrtiddles
P.S. If you need any more specifics, they are readily available. Thanks!
I have a Toshiba Satellite P205. It has Vista Home Premium, and it ran quite nicely for a while. Then all of a sudden, it stopped working. Ran the Recovery Disks. Well that was all well and good, except for the fact that now there's another problem.
Once I get Vista to show up, the "Applying final configurations" program pops up, and a few seconds later the screen goes blank, and doesn't respond to anything. As in ANYTHING.
Then, the most recent time I rebooted it I got the "blue screen of not-goodness". What it said (after removing all the verbage and useless "liek omg ur comput3r crashed ftl" crap): "STOP 0x0000008e (0xC0000005, 0x8C716BD6, 0x8A8C0898, 0x00000000).
I did many searchings of t3h interwebz, and nothing was helpful. My dad (computer genius) told me to get to the start menu, type in "msconfig", and hit enter. Then select the second setting (don't remember what it said, but basically it turned off all unnecessary applications on re-boot.) That did absolutely nothing.
Also, I added another laptop hard drive that was sitting around (making sure that was a functional hard drive) and replaced the original one, using the rebuild disks on that hard drive as well. Same exact effects.
So my question to you guys is this: What can I possibly do to save this laptop? Is there anything?
TIA,
mrtiddles
P.S. If you need any more specifics, they are readily available. Thanks!
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The most common culprit, and the easiest to test, is memory. Get yourself a copy of memtest86 (it's free!) from here http://www.memtest86.com/ and run it for a while. It checks every sector of your RAM, and any issues with it will show up there generally pretty quickly. It's a standalone bootable disc, so things like corrupted OS files and the like will stay out of the way.
Any more suggestions?
The CPU can also be the cause of the blue screen should it have gotten damaged by heat.
The fact that the OS comes up fine and then the video shuts off leads me to believe that its not the CPU that is the issue, but perhaps something with the video. Thoughts?
(Oh, btw, I also plugged a monitor into the VGA port, and that did absolutely nothing.)
But as soon as it starts working hard at loading devices and drivers and programs, it gets alot of heat - should there be a fault in the CPU, it will give an error message, go blank, or restart your machine.
What graphics you got on that notebook?
Sorry Buddy.