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I'll work on this somehow and find the solution for you but it'll take time. hope you can wait for my replies...

**Update**

by the way... did you try using other accounts? If not, try create new user account (it doesn't have to be admin or anything, just for testing purpose) and login into that account. See if BSOD still happens...

strange... you said in your previous post that you can't boot your computer. How come you can watch video?

I don't think it's a virus either way. A virus infection can only occur in Windows, not in bios or bootup but if it do happen to be an infection in bios, my previous solution will reset bios to default.

This solution will do some damage if you aren't careful with this. Remove battery and adapter before doing this. Do it at your own risk. Close the laptop lid and flip over your laptop. There should be a panel cover that can be opened but need to open with a screwdriver. Unscrew those panel and pull out the cover to reveal a 2'5 inch Hard Disk Drive and probably also RAM slot. Carefully remove them (HDD only).

Then try to turn on again your laptop. If there's no avail. Pull out RAM and replace it on another available RAM slot. Then try again...

This is to ensure that your HDD and your RAM is in fine condition.

"Don't troll too much. It make you look bad"

It overheat because of dust cluttering inside your laptop. No questions about it. If you've used that laptop for almost 2 years, more the reason it was dust problem.

If you are not familiar with the component inside your laptop, just send it to near local store and let them clean it up for you.

Download from HERE

Download the latest one (16.5) from there and installed it. It should solve the problem for your BSOD. If not, you could need to install the previous driver (16.4).

Don't be mistaken for 32-bit and 64-bit. Yours are 64-bit so download the 64-bit driver version.

Thanks for posting speccy although I forgot to tell you to save it as text only since saving with snapshot only reveal your windows version and audio devices...

May I know the laptop brand you are using? Most probably yours an Acer if I'm right...

Follow Caperjacks advice.
Your HDD need a replacement...

you can try those HDD on other computer to confirm that HDD is still usable or not...

Where is the specs?
Give your computer specs on Brand, windows version, model, motherboard model, RAM as such.

Alternatively you can download this software Speccy, install it and post it's information here. I don't mind either as attachment or zip files.

I need this to find the right driver for you to download although you have tried reinstalling drivers.

Try to remove the batteries and adapter out and let it discharges by itself for at least 10 hours or force discharge by holding the power button for at least a minutes.

Then try plug in adapters first before plug in batteries so test it whether it would start or not...

or maybe just about GAMES would do... I don't see many threads that discussed about games here in DaniWeb...

It means something is wrong with your graphic card that prevent you to view it on your laptop monitor...

When you connected your laptop to external monitor, when does the .sys error occur?

Ignore the 2 post above. Both are definitely spam...

When you say the startup just hang, where does it actually stuck? in the early power up or after Windows flag shows up?

It could be that your speaker wasn't connected properly to your computer OR your speaker already broken.
Ask your co-worker to borrow their speaker for a while and test it on your computer. If fail, follow Jingda's step by visiting NVIDIA support site if your computer is the same spec as your co-worker does...

I need to know if you're using a desktop or a laptop and some specs that might help.

first thing first, do you use your ethernet port often? if not, just disable it under device manager and use other means of internet access unless you're using a desktop.

It may have tried to read some data in your cd/dvd drives... Remove any cd/dvd and any usb that stick inside your computer. It should do the trick...

Did you have any other internet-related programs working on background besides steam?

By any chances, did you check each cable to be plugged on your IDE HDD? There should be two cable connected to it, IDE cable and power supply cable.

Can your HDD still be detected in BIOS?

"A giant step equal to tiny leap"

Doesn't need to. He simply follow your solution to correct his problem...

Thanks for correcting it... Even I got it wrong over time. Always got confused with ACPI, ACHI, AHCI ^^

Apparently, I have known Win XP can't run properly under AHCI so it need to be set as IDE to run properly. It also applies to Vista and Win7 that need to set as ACHI to run. During installation, yes. The main question is, when you have the 'freeze' problem, it was set to IDE right before you set it back to AHCI? Then how did you able to login to windows under IDE? I have try it numerous times but always got blue screen at win7 splash screen on both before install and after install.

I agree Win7 has this bugs for quite some time now and switching to x64 would ignore some programs that only work for x86 OS. No wonder you switch to x64 and i think it's good since most hardware now support x64 Win7 OS's unlike 2 years ago where getting drivers was a pain. And I never try to know what bonjour program is anyway. I thought it was some needed program for windows to run properly.

But it's good your problem is solved without a solution from ours. I'm sorry we couldn't provide a best solution for you right away...

I'm aware of that. When you post before, you set to ACHI and it solved it, I've been wondering, how did you able to login windows normally under IDE mode instead of ACHI?

Setting to x64 would just take more RAM out but give out most of Windows capability but I don't think that's the root for the problem...

That's weird. AFAIK if you set IDE instead of ACPI in BIOS, it would just go blue screen repeatedly till it switched to ACPI mode. That's what always happen to my friends computer when they ask to help format from XP to 7...

"Trust is the currency for worthiness"

See if this helps:

Right click "My Computer" and choose "Properties" from the context menu.
Go to the "Advanced" tab
Click the "Error Reporting" button near the bottom right
Select "Disable Error Reporting"

I don't know why the message keeps popping up but this may disable it.

The solution above will correct the issue but it would just stop the error reporting issue, not the real problem inside your computer.

Did your problem comes just recently and would you describe your problem in more details?

Whichever you might like to use. Ubuntu is pretty vastly used other than other distro so that's why most spotlight goes to Ubuntu instead of Gentoo.

I don't see a hassle working with Gentoo if you already know how to use it more than Ubuntu but then again Ubuntu has less maintenance which is good for portable purpose. So I think you should go just like you suggested

Gentoo for desktop dual-boot with windows (xp/vista/7)
Ubuntu for laptop (also can dual-boot)

OR

if you have lots of free space to use on either desktop or laptop, just install both Gentoo and Ubuntu together on different partition. Much like below

Primary Partition C: - ntfs - Windows
Extended Partition - ext3/4 - Gentoo
Partition - ext3/4 - Ubuntu
Primary Partition - ntfs - Available free space for storage/backup purpose

Here's a note to take before installing any OS's on your computer.

* Note that Windows can't detect ext3/4 partition format so they will be mark as unknown partition in windows. Linux distro on the other side can detect all partition type.
* You have to install Windows first before install Linux distro because of boot process. If you install windows last, you may not be able to boot to your linux OS's.
* Primary Partition can be created up to 4 partition only while extended can break those limit. Be sure to set one primary partition to extended …

my netbook is a piece of crap. The charger port has pushed in so far the charger needs to be held in, the battery is shotty and I need a new one. I respect the power of them however, and because they're so inexpensive they're great for tinkering around with the operating system(s) and great for checking cross-platform portability of programs.

I think it's not the netbook that is crappy like Jingda said. It was manufacturer fault and you need to RMA it for replacement. If you just bought it, then you don't need to pay extra cash for it except for charges to send your netbook to Acer.

hello friends

i have the save problem with my laptop system..
when i using system sometime blue screen error occurs and system will be restart.

did it happen just recently or i have been like that for some time now?

I would say go for the latest one too... I believe you're not going to stick with just doing programming stuff only...

i3 or i5 would be good enough to require your needs but i7 is pretty far the most recommended one if you want to do serious gaming or watch HD movies...

@Jingda

because people rarely brave enough to open their own laptop casing and taking out component inside without knowing what they are except the laptop were already dead to begin with. If you have no knowledge whatsoever on laptop maintenance, would you try to salvage it on your own? Even I won't dare to open mine...

I'm not very clear with your problem but I'll assume you have problem with your power button which won't respond for few clicks and will auto shutdown by itself randomly...

Here are the list for possible problems that may have on your computer

- Power button connection to motherboard jumper cable have problem
- Power supply does not supply enough power ((most probably))
- Motherboard refuse to work for first few times
- Hardware Conflict

Well, if you have another power supply unit (PSU) at your home or you have another working computer, use that to try on your faulty computer...

Either your audio card or audio jack was disconnected OR you installed the wrong driver for your Ac'97 or HDAudio

Can you explain a little bit more detailed for your problem?

Where? Which point?

Reseating heatsink and graphic card when it was a laptop to begin with?? Ignore this if you do know what to do...

If they said update BIOS would fix it, then do a BIOS update as suggested. It would be nothing major but it would fix the problem you're having currently...

But please always be careful when flashing new BIOS if it need to be done manually because one single mistake and you could lost your laptop. There should be an automatic BIOS updater on Dell Support Centre so go there to download latest BIOS update...

Yes, you've done right as far as you can see the 'Install Windows 7' option so next try to look under the option, it should have another 2 small option and one of it is 'Repair your Computer'. Initiate that and you should be prompt to identify and choose your OS installation which is Windows 7.

Click 'Load Drivers' and it should run an automatic startup repairs. Once it done but no problem or error or it couldn't repair it, do NOT click finish yet. There should be another option call 'Advance System Diagnostics and Repairs' on the below left of the windows. Then it should give you 5 options of Diagnostics and one of it including Command Prompt. Run it and type in those line I mentioned before...

If you try to use the installation disk within windows, the problem will always happen... Instead of running it in Windows, boot from it and it should initiate an 'Install Windows' but select 'Repair your Computer' option so it should fix your crash problem.

If nothing comes up on automatic repair, open command prompt under same repair windows and type in this

chkdsk c: /f /x /r

((where C would be your default windows directory. Change it to other drive letter if you install Windows on other partition))
This would take long so be patient till it found problems for you and fix it...

You could try to clean the dust inside to make sure it wasn't an overheat issue but usually that's the case. Not all computer can support ubuntu especially some old computer like you're probably using right now.

When your live cd not working, the only thing to rule in is motherboard, heatsink, processor and external hardware connections but most probably it's motherboard issue and/or overheating problem...

Try again but when it shut down unexpectedly, touch the side of the heatsink but don't touch too long or you might got burned. If you feel a very hot feel from it, then yes it's a heatsink problem...

So how long until everyone tries the switch? Like Windows is getting to be a joke, most just use some activation and etc; apple is fairly cheap but many updates and THE COMPUTERS COST A TON, since Linux is cheap, free, runs on most if not every machine, do you think Linux will take over? Or is it too "complicated" (but I believe there are Windows-like OS's)....

True, you'll need some linux basic to use it's server but at least it was cost less than other server OS's. Once you got the hang of using Linux server, I'm sure it'll be worth it...

Linux take over, I don't think they will at the moment because linux system are so much different from Windows and Apple which makes a computer noob quite stumped and force them to use easier and user friendly OS's...

If using IP address instead of address itself works, it could be something blocking it. Like I said, it could be malware but I can't cross out that your ISP were also the culprit...

It won't hurt doing a scan although it do take hours to complete but you can call your ISP first to confirm the problem... If they still saying it's not their problem, then try other internet alternatives and see if that works...

Hmm... the war is starting again. And it's today as well but I don't think I'll join the next sortie with you guys... I want to help other people with quality post, not from this game entirely... sorry all and good luck.

Scan your computer for malware with THIS, install it, update it and then run full scan. Post the log here if possible.

Also you could try IE without any addons running to prove that toolbar is not affecting your browsing problem...
Go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Internet Explorer (no addon)

It could be from your recently installed software and may accidently installed toolbar which some of it do block browser from surfing...

If others internet-related programs works fine, then something is blocking your browser from surfing the web...

Cats has 9 LIVES... so do humans but humans tend to ignore the other 8 and just stick with one live only...

for that... I think you have to do it in safe mode or in Windows Recovery Console

Press F8 till the menu for Safe Mode to appear but instead, select 'Repair your computer' if available...

Normally, it would automatically run repair windows startup but if it found nothing, proceed with advance diagnostic or something (I forgot the details) but it should prompt you with 5 programs to use and one of it is Command Prompt. Enter it and type the following above again...

Sorry for the late reply...
Yes there is...

Right-click my computer and select properties. Go to hardwre tab and click Device Manager... You could check if something is wrong with your hardware and/or driver

It could be something is wrong with driver...
Did you install new driver or new programs recently?

BIOS is like a human heart so if it's goes wrong, so do other systems.

BIOS updates mostly not needed and not recommended for beginners to do it because if BIOS flash fail, it could cost your entire machine...

do this fix first. Run Command Prompt and type in below

chkdsk c: /f /x /r

If fail, do the next fix... In same command prompt

sfc /scannow

Post back here with if it works or fail...

You can see HERE for basic maintenance and care method...