A bad modem can cause a BSOD. Remove it and see what happens. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurence Spiegel" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:10 PM Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Troubleshooting BSODs
Re: Troubleshooting BSODs -- response below. -----Inline Message Follows----- On 09.02.2009 04:22, you, Laurence Spiegel wrote: > I've set a chkdsk to be done this evening. I have PC doctor, can I > run enough tests from within windows or do I need to create a boot > CD? (No floppy drive). Why don't you run the diagnostics on the bootable CD you can create in Lenovo System ToolBox (http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-67520)? Or, if it's not compatible with your TP40, the similar diagnostics found in PC Doctor (http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-56222)? If yours is a hardware problem, you may find out about it (by running the diagnostics on one of the above bootable CD) even if your Windows install is screwed up. Cheers, Dominique I created the CD and ran the tests overnight. I'm confused about the log though - when I used F2, F3 to save the log the only entries were regarding the modem, which supposedly failed. Nothing about the 12+ hours of system tests. I also don't fing the log file on the hard drive - there's no indicaton of where PC Doc placed it. So ... perhaps it detected problems, but if so it gave no clear indication of what passed and what did not. And the log file is nowhere to be found. I'm may be missing something obvious. I ran two spyware checks: Spybot, which complained about browser cookies, and the free Google download Spyware Doctor, which flagged more cookies and a few registry entries. Spyware doctor seems hyperactive tho; it seems to flag anything related to advertising. I can understand why many people avoid all versions of Windows. I'm guessing I have an infrequent issue with hardware (based on seeing IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL, which I've seen with hardware issues in other cases) and perhaps some bit of software that's able to crash more than its own processes. I truly despise unreliable computers, so I will put a few more hours into rooting this out. Unfortunately neither PCs nor Windows were designed to be highly reliable, so there's a shoveling sand aspect to this pursuit. ---- Larry _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
