Hey guys...
My laptop has been having some problems lately. It's a Dell Inspiron 8200.. and it's about 4 years old by now. During the last few days, it has
been blue screen of death-ing, at seemingly random times. At first, I thought it might be the RAM, however after running Memtest, without 850.0% coverage with no errors..
My next thought, is that it is the harddrive. Some files got corrupted, so I ran chkdsk to fix them, but the problem is still occurring. Here is the information I've written down from the blue screen's (they go so fast, I usually can't get enough data down):
KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE ERROR
... ...
0x00000007A ...
ftdisk.sys ...
(Not an exaggerated list
)
Here are my symptoms:
- Blue Screens of Death
- Sometimes the BIOS won't notice a harddrive.
- Sometimes the system won't start up, or it is taking way too long.
- It takes a long time from the time I login to the time the desktop shows up.
- CPU usage drops down to 0 - 1%
What do you think?