Rommie

I was just working on my PC and it suddenly flicked onto the old Blue Screen of Death, in its full 'beginning dump of physical memory' glory. It tried to restart, but there were virtical lines down the screen at both the Compaq welcome screen and the windows startup screen. Then the screen just goes black and it doesn't go any further.

It is a Compaq PC about a year old, running Windows Vista Premium with SP1 (or whatever the one released a couple of months back was). I have installed a few program updates lately, but none no brand new programs and nothing that I would consider 'dodgy'. I have never had any serious problems with the PC in the past.

I let the Windows auto-fix run and it tried to do a rollback, which didn't work. It then said it couldn't fix the problem. I then went into the startup menu and did a manual rollback to an update about 5 days back, which completeled successfully, but still didn't solve the problem. I also took of the case and removed any dust with an airgun and reseated the memory sticks, but still no joy. I guess the problem could be hardware given the failure fof the rollback, but I didn't know what section to post it in so I posted here, hope that's okay.

Anybody have any things I could try, or at least an idea of what the problem might be? I have a backup of my files a few weeks old, but would like to avoid a complete rebuild if I can.

Thanks in advance.

TyDeacon

It maybe a RAM issue. Try Memtest86 to see if you have a bad stick of RAM. You could try pulling RAM out and seeing if it boots with atleast one stick in it. Next you should try to boot with each individual stick in each slot on the motherboard. If nothing then you could have a motherboard issue.

Rommie

Thanks for the reply. I just tried removing both memory sticks in turn and also switching them around, but it doesn't fix the problem.

Rommie

Anybody else have any ideas?

Rommie

One last bump and then I'll give up.