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audi321
Original Poster
2,308 posts
82 months
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Hi all, I've got an old netbook (Dell Latitude 2100) running XP. Great little machine, but recently after about 3 minutes of booting up, I get the following BSOD  Anyone have an idea where to start? Thanks in advance!
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oldcynic
1,545 posts
30 months
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Do you have any disk space left? Try booting to safe mode - press F8 about once a second whilst booting until the boot menu appears, then choose safe mode. If the disk is full then delete some files (note full means less than about 200-500MB free, as the paging file will want some space.
Don't follow my step-son's lead and delete system files to make space for more downloads - this rarely ends well!
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davepoth
19,925 posts
68 months
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Googling the error code (0x0000008E) reveals that it can be all kinds of problems, but the two most likely things are out of hard disk space or bad RAM. Boot into safe mode as suggested and make sure there's some space free, and perhaps roll Windows back to the last system restore point to see if that helps.
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LordGrover
18,645 posts
81 months
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I don't know how accessible the RAM is on that machine, but it's usually fairly simple to just remove and reseat the memory. It may make a difference. If there are two or more modules try them one at a time.
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audi321
Original Poster
2,308 posts
82 months
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Cheers guys. I've booted into Safe Mode and there's loads of HDD space left (over 100gb). Whilst there I also did chkdsk and defrag, but still BSODs when not in Safe Mode.
I took the back off, and surprisingly, there's no RAM in the thing! Which will be something I will be sorting out providing I can sort the BSOD error out.
I have a spare HDD if you think it could be this? I would need to clone the original one first though, is there any free software that can do this (would need to be in Safe Mode).
Other than that, what else is could it be? Is it gonna be a gonner?
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RobCrezz
7,554 posts
77 months
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audi321 said: Cheers guys. I've booted into Safe Mode and there's loads of HDD space left (over 100gb). Whilst there I also did chkdsk and defrag, but still BSODs when not in Safe Mode.
I took the back off, and surprisingly, there's no RAM in the thing! Which will be something I will be sorting out providing I can sort the BSOD error out.
I have a spare HDD if you think it could be this? I would need to clone the original one first though, is there any free software that can do this (would need to be in Safe Mode).
Other than that, what else is could it be? Is it gonna be a gonner? Try a chkdsk /r
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davepoth
19,925 posts
68 months
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Unlikely to be the HDD IMO. I would now take a look at device drivers and memory resident programs, to see if any of them are being naughty. Are you running antivirus of any kind?
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audi321
Original Poster
2,308 posts
82 months
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Update - I uninstalled a good few programs whilst in Safe Mode, and I also uninstalled the graphics card driver.
Booted back into normal mode and it reinstalled the graphics driver and all looks to be stable (so far fingers crossed!).
Just backing everything up, then I'm off to crucial to get a load of RAM for it!
Thanks everyone!
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oldcynic
1,545 posts
30 months
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The system wouldn't start up if it had no memory. Try running msinfo32 (windows-r, then type in msinfo32) or for older operating systems winmsd. That will tell you how much memory it's got.
I suspect you're looking in the wrong place for the RAM. (And despite the earlier advice RAM is generally best left undisturbed. If you must touch it hold it by the edges and especially don't touch the contacts - you can create problems which aren't immediately obvious)
By the sound of it you had some kind of driver / software issue.
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