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darthdavid wrote:You've got your computer set to a refresh rate higher or lower than your monitor and/or video card can handle. Look up the specs on both and set the refresh rate to something that's within both of their stated limits.

Beowulf wrote:23.3 Hz? No wonder it's not displaying. No monitor will display at that low a refresh rate. Something software side is probably fucked up. You might want to think about getting Powerstrip or the like, to lock the refresh rate to exactly what you want it to. That should fix the problem, and keep it from ever occuring.

DaveJB wrote:ATI and nVidia's drivers can both override Window's default refresh rates in DirectX (which is almost always set to 60hz). It's possible that it's trying to do an override, but screwing it up in the process. What graphics card do you have? (Please don't say it's an Intel on-board solution... they suck and I have no experience with their drivers)

Elheru Aran wrote:Windows XP, no floppy drive. You're mixing me up with Ein with flashing the BIOS-- that was him, not me. And the problem is that the school will more or less absolutely not allow you to sign onto the Internet without all the critical updates, one of four major antiviruses (Symantec, McAffee, et al), Microsoft Anti-Spyware (even though I have a copy of Spy Sweeper...), and a whole list of other shit. Therefore, if I'm to be able to sign on, the network gives me one hour limited access to get everything installed. GAH!!!!!!!!!

Elheru Aran wrote:Brian: It's not a BSOD per se. While it's blue, it's more like an error notification message-- I don't remember it precisely, but it's something about an improper/illegal operation, gives me advice on what to do (that doesn't work, naturally), and gives an error code of some sort before something like 'Dumping physical memory... Physical memory completely dumped. yaddayaddayadda'.

Edit: I *am* on a cable... the one hour to get everything one needs from teh intarweb and get it installed and going is apparently mandatory for everybody signing onto the school network, it's some new measure supposed to try and keep spyware/viruses off the network. This new 'CLean Access' thing will also scan every seven days, and if you've got some shit on your computer, it'll tell you to get rid of it or they'll shut you off till you can prove you're clean to them... Rolling Eyes I know, real stupid, but since I couldn't legitimately get onto the school network any other way....

Destructionator XIII wrote:Here is my guess from what you have written so far:
The school installed a login program that autoloads when Windows boots. Hopefully, it won't autoload if the network is not detected, but honestly it is a longshot. Anyhow, this program was probably written by monkeys who tossed some of their own shit at the keyboard instead of actaully thinking and writing good code. In other words, it has a major bug and goes down hard. And the fact that Windows goes with it means there is probably a driver update screwed with it too (but maybe not!).

How do you fix it: I would say treat it like a virus. Manually extract the offending program from your autoboot list then possibly do a rollback of drivers recently updates.

Does the error message give a filename in it at all?

• A disk with the documentation, and drivers, for my monitor
  
  A disk for the hardware drivers in the computer
  
  A disk to 'restore the Operating System'.

A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. 

If this is the first time you've seen this screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps: 

Disable or uninstall any anti-virus, disk defragmentation, or backup utilities. Check your hard drive configuration, and check for updated drivers. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart. 

Technical Information: 

*** STOP: 0x00000024 (0x001902FE, 0xB83D74AC, 0xB83D71A8, 0xF8404380)

*** Ntfs.sys-- Address F8404380 base at F83E0000, DateStamp 41107eea

Beginning dump of physical memory... 
Physical memory dump complete. 
Contact your system administrator or tech support for further assistance. 

brianeyci wrote:Use the "restore" disk. Pop it into your computer before it starts up, and start up your computer. Also, you might need to go into the BIOS to change the boot order. Your computer has to have the ability to boot from a CD, given that you don't have a floppy.

<edit>Oh yeah the restore disk will destroy everything, so make sure you don't want anything on the computer before you do it.</edit>

Brian

ggs wrote:Your harddrive is fucked, either that or your motherboard's IDE controller has gone south.

Do a checkdisk scan ("chkdsk") via the Recovery Console (booting off the Windows XP CD and selecting "R" option). It should pickup bad sectors.

If so, then you need to replace the harddrive. Otherwise it will just fail more often untill it just stops working.