I need tech help PLEASEEEEEEEEEE !!!

HI Ross,

The Blue screen comes when you have abundance of viruses on your Comp. I guess you are surfing without any anti-virus protection. Also windows firewall is very rudimentary and you must go for some other sophisticated firewall. In my view Kaspersky is the best alternative.

For now it seems that you have to reinstall XP until someone offers a better solution
Cheers
Bhupinder

The majority of the time when you get that you need to give up the ghost and have a system reload done. What's the brand of your PC?

GOD, some here are just WRONG! This screen simply means there is a fatal error. The criteria on it probably means something, but even M/S is likely to never tell you(Tim Franklin showed one thing microsoft said that MIGHT be good advice, but it sounds like you couldn't use it anyway.).

FORGET the stupid myth that this means viruses! It simply means fatal error. In order, from what I have seen that means(most likely to least likely):

1. PROGRAM BUG(and this could cause the type of problem Tim Franklin spoke about correcting)
2. OUT OF MEMORY/BAD MEMORY
3. OUT OF DISK SPACE
4. FATAL BOARD ERROR
5. Hiccup(such as from a power glitch)
6. Disk Crash

While it IS true viruses can cause any of the above, they don't have to, and USUALLY DON'T! Formatting the disk WILL NOT HELP unless it was caused by a disk problem. If it was caused by a disk problem, the cause may still be there, or your disk may be unstable.

What I would do if I were you is turn it off, and wait perhaps as much as an hour or two. That will cool things down so that problems 4 and 6 and MAYBE 2 will be less obvious. WHY???? CPUs, Memory, and even disk drives are more likely to fail if they are HOT. Your symptoms indicate that #3 isn't your current problem, and #1,#5 COULD have caused the current problem, but they aren't that likely.

Then, with it quiet, turn on your system, and watch the disk lights, and listen. Is the fan running? Did the lights light? Did it beep normally? If all happens, and the drive lights light and it seems to just not start, you MIGHT have a disk problem. If the fan isn't running, your fan might be bad. If it didn't beep normally, call support for the computer.

If it seems to run, backup your favorite stuff to NEW media NOW!!!!!! Realize it can go down in any second(Though it is more likely to take minutes to like an hour). Your system might be on borrowed time. It ALSO might be a time to run a memory test. Flaky memory, or memory that is too slow, can ALSO cause this problem. That's another thing, you CAN go into the bios, and slow down memory access, and the cpu speed. That will make it even MORE likely to run if it is an electronic problem. Of course, the trick is to narrow it down. If it is a memory problem, you can replace the bad memory, a CPU problem you can replace the CPU, etc...

BTW Taking it to a good tech IS a good idea, but I would STILL do the above! WHY???

1. You MAY be lucky and fix it!
2. You COULD narrow it down, or get other things that could help.
3. You may be able to save some stuff that the "tech" might just wipe out(like with a drive format).
4. It may lower the time/cost!

BTW when you are done, hopefully soon, turn the computer off. Don't even bother shuting it down the normal way. Try to get it fixed before trying to turn it on again. That is because too much heat can destroy electronics, and cause disk problems.

Steve