How often do you get a blue warning screen when you boot up?

[zippitippitoes]

..........and is it a feature of windows XP

I never used to get them with my old computer

answer me damn you

With white writing on?

With white writing on?

2 lots of white writing

Is that the one where the writing recommends going through a disk check?

yes that's the one the opening remark is usually something like

pen_h not applied zinc work//00000234 top

or similar

and finishes memory dump

Mine just says something like.

One of your disks needs to be checked for inconsistencies. The type of file is FAT32.

And then it checks the disk if you want it to, and comes up with a load of gobble-di-gook (to me at least) saying that the disk is fine.

So maybe not quite the same thing.

never what's up?

A blue screen before a memory dump is know as 'The Blue Screen of Death'!!
You might want to save all your files very quickly - photos etc if you have them saved and then do a system recovery..... i've lost 2 computers through memory dump screens recently!

Ours does the blue screen thing on average once a week.

Last week it did it about 10 times in a day - got stuck in some sort of loop of starting up, blue screen & disk checking, and restarting and then going to blue screen again etc.

DH sorted it out, but says our hard drive is knackered - some areas can't be accessed. It is quite old though!!!!

Oh I think ours is different - we used to get it regularly until somebody did something to clean it up [dumb blonde] and it's been OK until yesterday, when it booted up fine but kept chuntering, then cut out momentarily, then came back with the blue screen saying something terrible had happened and where it was and did we want to start again in safe mode.

After a couple of reboots it pulled itself together and said it had recovered from some crisis or other (I can never remember the phrases they use).

Anyway it sounds sort of common-ish, zippi

Ours says something like - 'this system has recovered from a serious error' and asks if we want a report or something.

Not sure mine is the same as yours zippi - sounds more like JanH's!

If you can be bothered to read through it (it's quite hard work!!) You can find out all about it here

If you scroll down a little bit it tells you about the xp blue screen.

Hope it helps! (But definately get all your files onto disk asap)

these guys rock!

blue screening is not a good thing. disk problems. i changed to a mac 1.5 years ago and it's never crashed. not had a single problem. the time i've saved from not farting around with virus scanners, re-installing, rebooting blah blah blah has more than made up the additional cost of the computer.

Oooh yes, JTS, that's exactly it, the serious error one - it's the top BSoD in zippi's link.

(And when you click on "yes, send error report" it snaps right back "can't, you're not connected to the internet" - and then disappears - so I never know if it was sent or not )