How to stop screen so i can read blue screen message

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rock

Hi,

I have XP pro and it has started to keep on rebooting at start up with a
flash of a blue screen message which I can't read as it is so fast.

It boots up with the Windows logo screen and the blue lines showing it
working for a few seconds but then it goes black and then the blue
screen flashes and it then reboots to the same thing again.

How can I read that blue screen and how can I see what it wrong and fix it.

Thanks


oz
 
rock said:
Hi,

I have XP pro and it has started to keep on rebooting at start up with a
flash of a blue screen message which I can't read as it is so fast.

It boots up with the Windows logo screen and the blue lines showing it
working for a few seconds but then it goes black and then the blue screen
flashes and it then reboots to the same thing again.

How can I read that blue screen and how can I see what it wrong and fix
it.

Thanks


oz
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Press F8 during boot up until the boot options menu comes up. Scroll down to
"Disable automatic restart on system failure" and press enter. That will
stop it at the BSOD if it comes up again.
 
Thanks but this did not work on my XP box.

It is a USB KB.
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That shouldn't matter but I had a feeling that wasn't gonna
work. You have a digital camera or a camcorder, like everyone in
the world except me, right? Set it up on a little tripod or prop
it up on a few books and just shoot the screen during the
problem period. You should be able to read the screen - a few
tries /may/ be necessary.

Not that it's gonna help you much - IME, those messages are
totally useless since no one but some moron at MS who coded them
in the first place knows what they mean.

But I /have/ Googled for the exact portion(s) of some of them
over the years, and sometimes you get lucky...
 
Thanks guys..

Silly as it sounds, I might try that as I do want to know what this
thing is telling so I can go straight to the problem.

I have taken the HD out of that box and into a usb external of another
box and can see all the files.. It looks so innocent!! I am trying to
save all my files before I attempt to fix the bad blocks, if I ever am
able to get to that point.

Shame there is not anyway with the files being exposed like that that
one can 'fix' the corrupt ones!! Now that's an idea MS??

What about doing a Chkdsk as it is in the usb. Could that screw my XP
files if that is where the bad blocks are.

Is there some way of doing this right?

Thanks again for the input.

oz
 
rock said:
Thanks guys..

Silly as it sounds, I might try that as I do want to know what this
thing is telling so I can go straight to the problem.

I have taken the HD out of that box and into a usb external of
another box and can see all the files.. It looks so innocent!! I
am trying to save all my files before I attempt to fix the bad
blocks, if I ever am able to get to that point.

Shame there is not anyway with the files being exposed like that
that one can 'fix' the corrupt ones!! Now that's an idea MS??

What about doing a Chkdsk as it is in the usb. Could that screw my
XP files if that is where the bad blocks are.

Is there some way of doing this right?

Thanks again for the input.
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Depending on your periodic/consistent backups for the important files
(yours) is the standard way people protect their data. ;-)

Imaging the entire disk is another thing you can do.

Backups of some sort - best defense against all such issues. ;-)
 
Boot into BIOS and look for a 'Enable Legacy USB Devices' setting and make
sure it is enabled, not just auto. It shouldn't make any difference what
type of keyboard it is. What I suggested will work if the OS is intact
enough to get there, and from your description of the boot process, it
should get to the boot options menu just fine.
 
Thanks but this did not work on my XP box.

It is a USB KB.

oz
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What does "did not work" mean?

Does it mean you were not able get to the boot options menu by
pressing F8?

Does it mean you chose to Disable automatic restart and it didn't stop
on the BSOD?

Did you also try Last Known Good Configuration?

What do you think might have changed in your system between the time
it last booted and the BSOD?

No matter the case I would try again. If you miss the F8 window of
opportunity, you have to start again. That is one reason that boot
option exists.

If you want to run chkdsk, why don't you leave the disk in the system
and run chkdsk from Recovery Console instead of physically moving the
disk to some other location? Isn't that time consuming?

Do you have a bootable XP installation CD or do you need to make a
bootable Recovery Console CD?

If you move the HDD and run chkdsk on another computer, move it back
and it still doesn't work, what are you going to do next?

Seems like if you have a problem, you would leave the HDD in the
afflicted system and fix the problem there.
 
rock said:
Thanks but this did not work on my XP box.
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Try pressing the Break key. Usd to be that would "halt"...OTOH, it *is* a
Microsoft error mesage so maybe not.

dadiOH
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What does "did not work" mean?

Does it mean you were not able get to the boot options menu by
pressing F8?

Does it mean you chose to Disable automatic restart and it didn't stop
on the BSOD?

Did you also try Last Known Good Configuration?

What do you think might have changed in your system between the time
it last booted and the BSOD?

No matter the case I would try again. If you miss the F8 window of
opportunity, you have to start again. That is one reason that boot
option exists.

If you want to run chkdsk, why don't you leave the disk in the system
and run chkdsk from Recovery Console instead of physically moving the
disk to some other location? Isn't that time consuming?

Do you have a bootable XP installation CD or do you need to make a
bootable Recovery Console CD?

If you move the HDD and run chkdsk on another computer, move it back
and it still doesn't work, what are you going to do next?

Seems like if you have a problem, you would leave the HDD in the
afflicted system and fix the problem there.
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Thanks for the help..

Altho' I touched F8 as one would, it went straight thru to the Windows
welcome and the the blue and reboot etc.

Yes I tried the Last Config and Safe and still the same result thru to
reboot.

I am going to run chkdsk in the usb as it is there now and I have taken
all my data off in both a True Image full image and by manually taking
the data files and the whole Doc and Settings directories.

Yes I have both XP full setup and a Repair CD.

I also have the WD HD diags program.

FYI The disk is 320Gb SATA and is new last July WD32000AVJS-63B6A0

I must admit this is the 3rd WD disk in 3 years I have had trouble with
and never a Seagate Barr which I mainly use both SATA and IDE

I continue...

Thanks again

oz
 
Boot into BIOS and look for a 'Enable Legacy USB Devices' setting and
make sure it is enabled, not just auto. It shouldn't make any difference
what type of keyboard it is. What I suggested will work if the OS is
intact enough to get there, and from your description of the boot
process, it should get to the boot options menu just fine.
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Thanks.

Yes I did that and I do get to all the Bios and then to the opening
Windows Welcome screen fine, it is just after a few seconds on the
Welcome screen and a few seconds of blue bars and then I get the black,
then quick blue then black and reboot.

oz
 
Try pressing the Break key. Usd to be that would "halt"...OTOH, it *is* a
Microsoft error mesage so maybe not.

dadiOH
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Ah ha.. It seems I have 7 Bad blocks and they all showed near the
beginning of the Seagate Tools programs which I just used as it reads WD
disks as well.

So it makes sense these blocks are effecting the XP files.

What is the work around here?

oz
 
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