Hey chaps,
A friend's just rung me up in a frenzy because his computer crashed tonight and he has a hand-in, of some presumably horrid and important sort, due in tomorrow. I couldn't give him an informed answer with what he's told me, so whilst I make google searches I thought I'd post here to speed-up the process (before he goes mad with panic). Process of events goes as follows (as far as he told me):
He was playing a game when his colours revert to 8-bit and computer cuts to blue screen of death. He manually shuts down and on restarting, regardless of which option he chooses (safe-mode etc.) he gets a blue-screen with a message asking to check for system viruses etc. I may have misheard, but I believe he had a similar problem in the past, has tried the same tactic, and has now ended up with another message saying floppy diskette failure.
I can retrieve other system specs. if needed, but for now all I know is he's running on XP Pro.
If anyone could give me some solutions to pass on, or at least a likely source of the problem (I think he's very worried about his HDD getting screwed) then it would be hugely appreciated.
A friend's just rung me up in a frenzy because his computer crashed tonight and he has a hand-in, of some presumably horrid and important sort, due in tomorrow. I couldn't give him an informed answer with what he's told me, so whilst I make google searches I thought I'd post here to speed-up the process (before he goes mad with panic). Process of events goes as follows (as far as he told me):
He was playing a game when his colours revert to 8-bit and computer cuts to blue screen of death. He manually shuts down and on restarting, regardless of which option he chooses (safe-mode etc.) he gets a blue-screen with a message asking to check for system viruses etc. I may have misheard, but I believe he had a similar problem in the past, has tried the same tactic, and has now ended up with another message saying floppy diskette failure.
I can retrieve other system specs. if needed, but for now all I know is he's running on XP Pro.
If anyone could give me some solutions to pass on, or at least a likely source of the problem (I think he's very worried about his HDD getting screwed) then it would be hugely appreciated.
