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Posted: Jan 09 2010 11:38 pm

So yeah, I just got a Blue Screen, and now my computer hangs indefinitely during the Windows boot. Suggestions?

Posted: Jan 09 2010 11:48 pm

This happened to me and my hard drive was fried. I had to replace it.

Posted: Jan 10 2010 12:08 am

It's clearly an OS problem. If Dell had given me the XP disk, I'd reinstall. Maybe I should buy Windows 7.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Jan 10 2010 12:21 am

Start a Tech Support Forum. Bell

You tried booting in safe mode? That usually works for me in clearing shit up.

If that doesn't work, try here

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lol at gif.

Posted: Jan 10 2010 01:28 am

Pretty much what Usa said. My old computer messed up like that all the time. I would just start it up in safe mode and pull a system restore to a few weeks back and that always seemed to fix the problem.

Posted: Jan 10 2010 06:47 am

Safe Mode won't load. Windows Recovery Console loads, and I ran a checkdisk but it didn't help.

Posted: Jan 10 2010 06:55 am

The problem seems to be a file called stpd.sys. Safe Mode asks me if I want to load it, but regardless if what I say, it hangs.

Also Usa, that forum says it's for Windows 7. I have XP.

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Here you go. Hope this helps.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/235298-45-sptd-blue-screen-death

Posted: Jan 10 2010 08:07 am

Damn, whoever made that put a lot of work in to it, cutting out the reflection and pasting it back in frame by frame.

Doddsino wrote:

Posted: Jan 10 2010 08:09 am

Dell never gave me either an XP CD or a Recover CD. If they had, there wouldn't be a problem.

I have had nagging XP problems for months, most notably:

Automatic updates says I need admin authorization to run, but won't even run on the admin account
Windows Firewall won't load
I get some weird driver error when Windows Explorer loads

And now this. Clearly my XP is FUBAR. I need to know if buying and installing W7 over it is a reasonable solution.

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If you have enough RAM to run Windows 7 then I would say go for it, but if you don't than it would lag as much as you said XP has been.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Jan 10 2010 01:25 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Also Usa, that forum says it's for Windows 7. I have XP.

Did you scroll down to the Windows XP forum?

Posted: Jan 10 2010 01:49 pm

Where is GP? Haven't seen him in a while

Posted: Jan 10 2010 02:24 pm

My friend is going to bring over an XP recover CD tonight. Hopefully that will work. And XP never used to lag. I believe it is the result of viruses altering system files and virus scans removing the viruses but not repairing the files.

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syd im assuming your computer wont run windows seven based purly on its age
unless you bought it brand new within 2009 in wich case it should run fine

Posted: Jan 12 2010 10:43 am

Hacker wrote:

syd im assuming your computer wont run windows seven based purly on its age
unless you bought it brand new within 2009 in wich case it should run fine

What are you smoking? Win 7's requirements aren't that high. It's an OS not Crysis:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Posted: Jan 25 2010 02:50 pm

GUh, speaking of computer problems, my wife crapped out another one of our laptops and now I'm finally back on an old desktop I Frankensteined together. What'd I miss, in alphabetical order?

Posted: Jan 25 2010 03:00 pm

I've got a problem too. Whenever I go to "My Pictures", there is a blue square on most of the thumbails that looks like a fast-forward button on a TV. Norton says I'm clean, but I've never seen this before. Is it just some newfangled update?
EDIT: It's on my music file thumbnails, too. WTF?

Posted: Jan 25 2010 05:54 pm

Did you install any new media programs, lately?

Sometimes programs will auto associate the files they can read to themselves. The other thing to try is to right click on any picture file. Choose "Open With...Choose Program", then select the program you prefer to use, click on "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file.", then click on "OK".

That should fix your problem.

Posted: Jan 25 2010 06:37 pm

Knyte wrote:

Did you install any new media programs, lately?

Sometimes programs will auto associate the files they can read to themselves. The other thing to try is to right click on any picture file. Choose "Open With...Choose Program", then select the program you prefer to use, click on "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file.", then click on "OK".

That should fix your problem.

Just changed it to "Always open with MS Paint", and it's still there. I ran a virus scan specifically on a few of the pictures, and Norton came up clean. My guess is it's just a really weird aesthetic update. It doesn't really matter to me as long as my computer's safe.