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Okay, so about 2 days ago my compter froze up and I got the dreaded blue screen which stated that a full memory dump has been completed. I restarted out of the blue screen and it went to BIOS which said "Primary master hard disk error" so when I went to look at my hard disk in BIOS, it was showing up as 0mb, just a bit short of the 200gb that should be there.
I'm running XP and downloaded some boot disks using another computer. I re-booted with the boot disks, but that just always ends in a blue screen as well which tells me I should check for hard drive coruption. So....how do I do that?
I was going to pull the hard drive and use an external box to hook it up to another computer to take a look at it. Another big problem....I have no idea how to open up this all-in-one unit! I can access the memory (I updated to 1 gig about a year ago), but that's it.
Any help on what the problem is, how to fix it, and how to open up my computer would be much appreciated. Thanks.
By download a hard drive diagnostic program you can check if the hard drive is good or not. Here is one from seagate, Seatools: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools
Basically, you create a bootable cd or flopppy with the program and then boot to that media. The program will tell you if the hard drive is still good. Good luck!
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Hello Mtha Ncedani,
The problem you are saying is known as blue death screen error. This problem is caused by primary memory dump of your system.
To avoid this blue screen error try this steps,
1) Remove recently installed soft wares
2) run "CHKDSK" utility at boot
3) Check for any bad sectors on hard drive
Basically these are the cause of blue screen error. I hope you got the solution, even if your problem persist then write here. we are happy to help you. Please we need your positive response for this solution.
once your computer take an BOD or blue screen of *****. it is an indicator that one of you perepherals was damage. in that case you only have to option the memory cards or the HDD. if some point you dont experience a hard time in booting it is not the HDD. maybe your memory cards was in defective state. sometimes good sometimes bad. try to chkdsk first or scan your HDD for posible bad cluster. and make a test also in your memory using some stress memory tester
the first thing to check are the leads a faulty
lead can cause the blue screen of death
a bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a
cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect your hard drive
test all leads that attach to your hard drive
including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA
the leads from your ((motherboard to your hard
drive)) make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just
replace them they could be faulty make sure all
leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure
connections and are not faulty even the electrical extensions or just replace
them they could befaulty a computer
needs its connections to finish its cycle and have an end so any faulty leads
will end up with a computer error If you see the physical memory dump blue screen
much more often then the issue is clearly Your computer is running past its specified limits you might have to install
more RAM random access memory to check how much ram you have to check the details on
your computer click start right click on
my computer select properties you will see all imformation about your computer
including installed ram click start
control panel administrive tools,computer management ,disk management right
click on your drive select properties click tools you should see click check
now click start two boxes automatically fix files and scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors place then a tick in both boxes then select check
now,start should schedule this task when restart do not do
anything while the chkdsk utility is in progress any input will damage your
computer hope this helps
That blinking cursor is the way in which the BIOS is telling you that Windows is missing - its most critical, core files have been corrupted beyond repair. The only thing you can do is to reinstall using the recovery cd or your own Windows install disk.
Hello Sir, Hi, the blue screen is commonly caused by a bad memory module. you may need to buy replacement memory modules, ask a computer shop if they have a module for your Mini, and have them replace the it. If the problem still persist, reinstall your Operating System. thats it.
You might have bad memory, a corrupted registry file, corrupted system files. Try starting up in Safe mode then backup your data. Goto My Computer and right click on the hard drive and select properties. Goto Tools tab and select error checking of hard disk on startup. Might need to reinstall Windows
there are some reesons for this blue screen,first check for error dump files in your system(hope you use windows OS),which may be stored to send error reports to Microsoft,second thing is your C: drive may be almost full,owing to many installed programs,third thing you may have low RAM memory.
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