Help With PC!

[themaninblack]

I figured someone on here must be an expert on this so here it goes:

I started my familys home PC the other day after they had been having internet problems. It started up fine but took forever when it was loading XP and then we got the horrifying Unmountable Boot Volume blue screen.

The stop error code was this: 0x000000ED (0x81330BD8, 0xC0000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I put in the setup disk and did recovery console but it has been sitting on the same screen for like 20 minutes. On the bottom of the screen it says it is Examining MB 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi...

any help would be appreciated.

[Addict]

I'm no computer expert, but that screen is 'the blue screen of death'

here's the wiki page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death

[themaninblack]

anybody know what i should do?

[adschofield]

Beat it with a baseball bat

[skinzzfan25]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297185

Here's the Microsoft KB article on it, to be honest, I don't really know what to do lol.

[raiderz4life]

id smack it a few times.....like adschofield suggested

[bantx]

theres a few people that know a lot on her njx might know, i know a little bit not enough though

[wingboy2999]

If you can reformat, you'll probably want to do that. Just wipe it clean and start over.

[AllDayFootball724]

what type is it....also yeah reformat is the only thing you can do with the blue screen of death. hopefully it only hard drive crash and not mother board crash.

[wingboy2999]

Either crash is gonna suck. Did this come out of nowhere or is your HD screwed? Power surge or anything? My family comp lost it's HD when there was a power surge and the needle that reads it smacked into the HD and destroyed it.

And that is why you invest in external HDs for your important stuff.

[neko4]

all you can do is send it
it sucks
happen to me too

[themaninblack]

im pretty sure were gonna need a new hard drive. i dont rly care about the stuff thats on it though because i have my own laptop. i would like to salvage it if at all possible. its a dell dimension b110 btw.

[JagHombre22]

dells are good computrons only when they're working though...lol

[thule]

if you don't care about losing it...just throw in a old disk...i like win 98 disk...but others will work...once it loads type

format c:

either this or type

fdisk

and delete the partition...either will work.

Reinstall windows....now if either of the above steps fail...you won't have a chance to save this hd and you'll be forced to invest into a new hd...anymore help you want ask...this is just a quick brief answer.

[JagHombre22]

Thule to the rescue...

*cue superhero music*

[umphrey]

It sounds like a stick of RAM died. You probably have 2 so take one out and boot, then take out the other and boot and see if it works one of the 2 ways. Otherwise it's probably your HDD.

[steel man]

9 out of 10 times that means that the hard drive has bad sectors, and/or corrupt. what i would do is take the HD out and on the back you will see a jumper, look on top of the HD and find the one that is slave and set your HD to slave then put that HD in another computer and see if you can access the files. if you can access the files copy them off and then reformat the drive that you took out and then set it back to master or cable select and reinstall Windows.

disclaimer:

i can not promise any help i give you will work and you are performing these acts at your own risk........LOL

[themaninblack]

my dads getting a new HD from work for free so i gotta wait a few days. id really like to install it myself but his work offered to do that as well.

[Nitschke-Hawk]

When I watch internet videos, such as youtube, they play. But they skip. It's like a very slow frame rate. I don't have any sound. When I go to site like someones myspace with a lot of pictures and music to load, it will freeze up after about a minute and I restart firefox. Downloaded stuff doesn't play with sound either.

Any idea what this could be ?

[steel man]

the freezing up and slow video is more than likely 1 of 2 things, you need more ram or a better video card.

as far as the sound goes my 1st bet would be a driver. if you right click on my computer and go to properties and then the hardware tab and click on device manager see if there is any yellow warning tags and that will let you know if something is wrong with the device, because it could be something as simple as the mute all box being checked.

[Nitschke-Hawk]

the freezing up and slow video is more than likely 1 of 2 things, you need more ram or a better video card.

as far as the sound goes my 1st bet would be a driver. if you right click on my computer and go to properties and then the hardware tab and click on device manager see if there is any yellow warning tags and that will let you know if something is wrong with the device, because it could be something as simple as the mute all box being checked.

Yeah there's a yellow warning tag under the Portable Devices section "Compact Flash"

I disabled then enabled, stayed yellow. I clicked search on for updated software. It says windows has determined the software is up to date. Any ideas now?

[Addict]

dells are good computrons only when they're working though...lol

too bad they never actually do work .

[themaninblack]

i never had any problems with that comp whilst I was using it. my brother and sister aren't exactly the most competent when it comes to using a computer though...