laptop experts unite! I have just been changing some software around on my laptop, in preparation for GFM, and began to run a disk clean up. I walked away from it and came back to a blank screen. Thinking it had just shut down to save on the battery, I turned it back on and it began to reboot but then came up with this blue "Stop" screen. When I try all of the options that it suggests, it just keeps coming back to the same screen. It won't even allow me to boot in safe mode. I am running Win 2000 Pro, on this machine. It appears to begin to boot normally, gets as far as the Windows logo screen and then, bam, the error page comes up.
The error page is blue with white writing that reads: ***STOP: 0x00000050 (0xC1080212,0x00000000, 0x804Ac321,0x00000000) PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA ***Address 804Ac321 base at 80400000, DateStamp 3ee6c002 - ntoskrnle.exe If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps: Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed. If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for any Windows 2000 updates you might need. If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then select Safe Mode. Refer to your Getting Started manual for more information on troubleshooting Stop errors. Well, it won't let me reboot to Safe Mode or any other mode for that matter, and when I press F12 to enter the BIOS at startup it says: Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 071) PXE-E61: Media Test Failure: Check cable. Pleeeeeeeease don't tell me I've blown a motherboard or CPU.... help! tan.
