Windows keeps crashing on laptop

Question

Iron

There was a problem with the Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop. Win constantly flies, that 7 that XP. There are many details, placed under cat. Thanks in advance to all those who will undertake to master and try to help.



It was on Windows 7 Ultimate, everything was fine. I am telling from the words of the “victim”, I was not around at that moment.

In general, at some time we surfed the Internet, saved the picture. When saving, everything hung and the laptop went into reboot. After the reboot, a black screen immediately after the system has booted up (the “Windows loading” window and the Windows logo).

Okay, we decided to go with a radical method - they demolished everything, formatted the screw. Installed Windows 7 Ultimate again, uploaded drivers and software (Office + Avira, if I'm not mistaken).

Two days later, the system crashed again while saving the picture. Again, they saved something, everything hung, reboot and then a black screen.

Again formatting the screw, installing Windows XP. They left the laptop on this and did not touch it anymore. Those. as installed, no longer included.

I got to the patient. I thought it was a problem with the screw, but since I don’t really rummage around in all this, I limited myself to installing HDDlife Pro, which displayed the inscription “Excellent” and, judging by the information, I thought that the screw was alive. I installed a network driver, hooked up on Wi-Fi, installed the driver for the video card to download, and went to have a cup of tea. I come - the laptop turned off. I blame the fact that the battery is very weak (it lasts 5-10 minutes maximum), and I forgot to plug in the charger before leaving.

Ok, I turn on the laptop - instead of the standard XP boot, a black screen appears with a horizontal strip at the bottom. For a while, something loads, then the message appears:
Windows cannot start due to a corrupted or missing file

windows\system32\config\system
I wondered what the problem is. Again I thought about the screw, began to google. In one place they wrote that this is a problem either with the screw or with the memory.

There is another laptop lying around at home, although it is a drowned one - it was accidentally flooded. Okay, untwisted, took out the screw (the main blow fell on the left side of the mother, the screw on the right). I thought, well, it won’t get worse, I’ll try to stick it in.

I stuck a screw in the Inspiron, decided to install Windows 7, but since there was only a netbook without a drive and a 2GB flash drive, I downloaded a truncated 800MB image. Recorded on a flash drive, began to put on a laptop. The screw seems to be normal - i.e. all sections are the same as before the “drowning”, all the information (judging by how much space is left) is in place, everything seems to be ok. Okay, the files were copied, went into reboot. I pulled out the flash drive, booted up, the installation continued, but then crashed into the blue screen of death with an error 0x0000008E. Got into Google - in one place they say that the screw is to blame, in another - that the memory.

I decided to go tomorrow to buy a new piece of iron - but I don’t know whether it’s a screw or memory, I’m leaning towards memory after all.

But I can’t know for sure - after all, I got the screw from the drowned man, maybe there is a problem in it. Here, I ask for your help - maybe you can tell me what else can be done to determine the hero of the occasion. Maybe some tests to drive or something else.

Thank you in advance.

PS There is only one die in the laptop, I looked from the netbook - it does not fit the connector.

Answer 1

Judging by Victoria's answer, you have a dead screw:
The result of the test in Victoria - Mb: 238475 | 100.0%
(5ms) - 1703711
(20ms) - 199735
(50ms) - 4126
(200ms) - 97
(500ms) - 27
(1.5s) - 33
Defects: 73
73 sectors remapped, 33 with access time over 1.5 seconds - screw 100 % to landfill.

Answer 2

and yet, I always make an image of the system through acronis true image.
Instead of reinstalling, I restore from a backup, it takes 5 minutes.
In your case, since often everything is fucked up, if you don’t find the reason, it may be useful.

Answer 3

run memtest, if ok then the problem is in the screw ...

Answer 4

According to the indicated symptoms - 100% memory.

Answer 5

If the memory memtest didn't give any errors, then run the hard drive through victoria. options specify classik remap bad block. There was a problem recently on a computer that Venda collected for films constantly flew 1-2 times a day. Scanned. It turned out that the beginning of the screw was strewn with bad blocks. Test in victoria screw

Answer 6

The hard drive crashes.

Answer 7

Judging by the test results in Victoria, there are problems with the HDD or laptop controller. If the crash repeats, try booting from "windows live CD" or "windows live flash" (if from a flash drive), then check the integrity of the file system of the system disk.
Also, tell us the SMART parameters that Victoria gives (SMART -> Get SMART -> right-click in the large field -> copy all to clipboard)
Instead of the paid Acronis, you can use the free DriveImage XML for bit-by-bit backup of partitions.

Answer 8

Thank you all for your help and advice!
Indeed, the problem was in the hard drive.
I got a new one, replaced it - the flight is normal.