Click to expand A GB or better hard drive is good for these old systems now. A 3rd party firewall is not needed for XP above SP1. NC, your hard drive is failing Your Thinkpad G40, whether it is type , , , or , can use 1 GB or memory. However, it is getting long in the tooth, and many of the G40's have a very failure prone Hitachi 40 GB hard drive.
Replace That Drive! Do not get a Hitachi or Samsung. You can get replacement drives at www. But if you don't have the restore disk with Service Pack 2, you will only be able to format to GB. It will take you hours to restore the drive. Then drag and drop. We have seen a lot of these failures because we service huge numbers of sales organizations whose field reps use them.
I don't think 1GB is needed with SP3. And we use to recommend a firewall for broadband users. Now it's recommended no matter what type of connection there is I also suggest using a router for security- whether or not you have more than one computer. Raybay -- I think your right about the driving failing. My G40 is Type and it does have an Hitachi drive. I've used the machine almost daily since Feb 04, so perhaps it's time for a the drive to go.
Just to dive an update on the status -- I was able to boot to a cd which has BartPE recovery. This found numerous disk errors and repaired them. After exiting the cd, I changed the BIOS back to boot from the hard drive and ultimately got the same blue screen.
I don't know if this would make a difference or not. I've read tons of info about making this cd and adding drivers, etc. But I figured I'd give it a try with the most basic of info. At this point, I'd be happy just to have the drive read one more time so that files can be copied from it.
I'd like to try putting the G40's drive in there to see if the files can be read and copied. While the machine is old and I'd really like one with a wider screen or at least with a video card that will display to a wider dimension on an external screen , I was planning on using this G40 until Windows 7 has been out for a while and proven to be stable.
I'd like to skip the Vista edition. While I have to work in the Vista environment from time to time and train users, I don't want to adopt it for my own use at this point. Some other background in answer to points raised in earlier posts -- Start up - I am the queen of minimal start up. I've got truly just the basics starting when the system boots and regularly check to be sure nothing has slipped in there.
Antivirus - I'm running Norton's corporate edition which does not hog the system the way the retail version does. It gets Live Updates daily and runs a full system scan daily. Firewall, etc -- I do use a router with security and a lot of my time is spent on a VPN. Do you have a link you can post? Or should I just call them. Thanks, everyone, for your input.
It's truly appreciated. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 2. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. I have tried safe mode, it simply freezes and restarts when I select it. In reply to That one foxx's post on January 3, Clearing CMOS may also help.
In reply to That one foxx's post on January 4, If there are two ram sticks, remove one and than the other to see if it startups. Another option is to use Linux Live CD to boot it up to test to see if it is working. You will not boot in any mode with that error but you can sure try, If you don't have a genuine bootable XP installation CD or a Recovery Console CD you can create a Hiren's Boot CD, boot your system on that and run the chkdsk from there.
Let chkdsk finish and correct any problems it might find. When the chkdsk runs clean, remove the CD and restart your system. Make sure to type in the exact error message that you get.
Watson reads the logs and discovers a lost cluster. You DO have the booklet with the key on it? The doorknobs where I bought the computer took over three weeks to get the computer ready when I bought it from them, so I am not going back there with any question! The sticker with the key is located on the computer case I finally got it to work but installing my version of windows 98, then upgrading or migrating, I can never remember?
I have had this problem with client computers and windows It is a real pain to have to install a serrogate operating system to get the prefered one to work! I thought that this disk would work after I formated the hard drive I hate the way dell partitions the drives!
This is what happened, I booted from the disk, it copied a bunch of temporary files to the hard drive and then it complained about the EULA. Then I tried booting from a win 98 boot disk, as I couldn't figure out how to make an XP boot disk from the cd-rom. There didn't appear to be any boot disk directory like in w2k. Anyway that did the samething I had encountered this before with w2k pro on a client's machine.
I solved the problem there by installing windows NT, then W2k pro. The client had purchased a full version of w2k pro from office depot. I am at a loss and I don't know what is going on. To fix problems that occur after you install Windows updates, check for pending updates by using these steps:.
Highlight the loaded test hive, and then search for the pendingxmlidentifier value. If the Stop error occurs late in the startup process, or if the Stop error is still being generated, you can capture a memory dump. A good memory dump can help determine the root cause of the Stop error. For details, see the following articles:.
For more information about page file problems in Windows 10 or Windows Server , see the following:. Check the functionality that is provided by the driver. If the driver is a third-party boot driver, make sure that you understand what it does. If the driver is not important and has no dependencies, load the system hive, and then disable the driver. If the Stop error indicates general registry corruption, or if you believe that new drivers or services were installed, follow these steps:.
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