Dad gave me his old laptop and initially it wouldn't work at all and kept BSOD'ing.
So we swapped the hard drive, and put it through the Memory Test and Hard Disk test that are on the Ubuntu install disk and everything ran fine.
So we tried to install XP again, and it worked, installed SP2, it worked, go to restart the computer after the update, and when it turns on, most of he time the Sony Vaio splash screen doesn't appear. Sometimes it does, and freezes, sometimes it makes it past that to the windows logo and freezes, sometimes it makes it to the desktop, and then BSODS.
The BSOD doesn't give a code at the top like XXX_XXXX_XXX but does give the error code:
*** STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0x804AB028, 0xF7780858, 0x00000000)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It's not that much of a big deal it's quite old.
But would like to get it working however, thanks.
So we swapped the hard drive, and put it through the Memory Test and Hard Disk test that are on the Ubuntu install disk and everything ran fine.
So we tried to install XP again, and it worked, installed SP2, it worked, go to restart the computer after the update, and when it turns on, most of he time the Sony Vaio splash screen doesn't appear. Sometimes it does, and freezes, sometimes it makes it past that to the windows logo and freezes, sometimes it makes it to the desktop, and then BSODS.
The BSOD doesn't give a code at the top like XXX_XXXX_XXX but does give the error code:
*** STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0x804AB028, 0xF7780858, 0x00000000)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It's not that much of a big deal it's quite old.
But would like to get it working however, thanks.
