Old vista laptop blue screens on startup.

[Alyx Vance]

Not a chance. Disk is long gone.

Well stuff uhh. Take it to laptop place or something?

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[Jerkface]

At least I tried to contribute...

Most people don't sit in the help thread giving out random advice that makes no sense.

The reason is that it's illogical to not only waste your own time posting about things you don't know, but it's also anti-productive to offer remedies to problems that you have no experience with.

Saying that vista is a bad OS is opinion, and it doesn't help that fact that he has the "Blue Screen of Death" which is actually a widely known hardware failure signal.  I myself don't have any experience in this field, but I can easily point out this problem.

One last note though.  Above your first post in this topic, Nickelob Ultra already pointed this out as well.  So, it was already answered.

Edit!

Well stuff uhh. Take it to laptop place or something?

I didn't even finish before you added something else on similar grounds with your last posts!

[._maxwell23461_.]

Nevermind.

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how come this happened to windows 7 and not vista for me?
Also the idiots that are saying 'omg VISITA IS UR PORBLIM!!1' are probably the ones who are trying to fit in and say vista sucks, it could be vista, or it could the "OLD LAPTOP" that's at fault you nitwits.

[Warground]

Bluescreen while working on PC = Hardware failure

Bluescreen while booting up = Hardware failure, missing system file OR corrupt filesystem.

And yes, you will need a Vista DVD to fix one of the last two problems.
Ask your friends if they got one, as long as you got a original "Product key sticker" it is totally legal.

Often they are located under the laptop. Sometimes they are on the manual.

If it is a hardware failure, then it is most likely caused by the RAM or the HDD. Both are easy to replace.

[dorkdotdan]

If you can, use puppy linux to get your files in case you can't start it again.

[Jerkface]

Bluescreen while working on PC = Hardware failure

Bluescreen while booting up = Hardware failure, missing system file OR corrupt filesystem.

It's not even possible to delete any files from System32 without specifically trying to do so.  He couldn't have accidentally lost his major system files like that unless he downloaded something that opens on launch and blocks them from running.

[pecon98]

Going to build a replacement for the computer. Thanks for confirming to me that it isn't worth fixing.

[Ethan]

Most people don't sit in the help thread giving out random advice that makes no sense.

The reason is that it's illogical to not only waste your own time posting about things you don't know, but it's also anti-productive to offer remedies to problems that you have no experience with.

Saying that vista is a bad OS is opinion, and it doesn't help that fact that he has the "Blue Screen of Death" which is actually a widely known hardware failure signal.  I myself don't have any experience in this field, but I can easily point out this problem.

One last note though.  Above your first post in this topic, Nickelob Ultra already pointed this out as well.  So, it was already answered.

Edit!

I didn't even finish before you added something else on similar grounds with your last posts!

Thumbs up :)

[Ethan]

It's not even possible to delete any files from System32 without specifically trying to do so.  He couldn't have accidentally lost his major system files like that unless he downloaded something that opens on launch and blocks them from running.

They can just disappear on their own. There are numerous ways, but hardware is prone to fail. There doesn't always have to be much of a reason.

[wound]

what about all the stuff on it?

[Menen]

If this is your only "solution", I advise you never post in a computer advice thread ever again.  This kind of bullstuff is really unacceptable and solves nothing.  Regardless of poor RAM management and a lack of built-in driver support in its release, Vista remained a good placeholder OS until the arrival of Windows 7.  For people who have Vista and can't afford Windows 7, most of its problems have been addressed in the metric forgetload of patches and support Microsoft gave for it.

Your sense of humor is deader than Mercury. That was a joke, man.

A joke.

A JOKE.

[pecon98]

I'm locking this because I resolved the issue. I didn't really intend it to be bumped when I linked it in the computer megathread.