[AccessD] Laptop Crashed again Help

Your motherboard may be going bad or the harddrive may be going bad.

There's a couple of thing that you can try.

1. Try to start in Safe Mode. (I'm sure you have already done this.)

2. Unscrew the hard-drive from the case, remove it, reinstall it, and try to
reboot. If you get it up and running, make backups of your important data as
soon as possible. (The motherboard may be going out - DELL wants to charge
me $483.00 for a new Inspiron 8000 motherboard - actually this is the price
for a complete overhaul).

3. If your OS is WinXP, you may be able to perform an OS repair. See the
following article "How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of
Windows XP" at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341 

4. If you don't have the DELL recovery disks and you can get the system up
and running if one of the above steps works, go to Dell's URL at
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?c=
us&cs=19&DN=1092188&l=en&s=dhs and follow the instructions for the "Dell OS
Recovery CD Creation and Manual Operating System Reinstall".

Good luck.

John V. Ruff - The Eternal Optimist J
 
"Commit to the Lord whatever you do,
                and your plans will succeed." Proverbs 16:3
 
-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Joe Hecht
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 8:47 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] Laptop Crashed again Help

I got the infamous Blue Screen this morning. Dell
Inspiron 8200. 512  megs  40 gigs

Tried to reboot. It said" No, I do not want to"

It continued "Windows could not start because the
following file is missing or corrupt. 
\windows\system32\config\system.

I got to a  dos start up screen. Tried last known
good.

It said no( Lippy little laptop.}

Ran repair console  chkdsk /r /f at fifty percent, it
gave up and said multiple non repairable errors.

Thoughts on hardware or software issues to look at.
This was a new hard drive about a year or two ago.

Just spent $158 for a new battery. Any system test to
see if this good money going into a bad machine?

Thanks

Joe

-- 
AccessD mailing list
AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd
Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com