PC help "blue screen of Death"

JJT17 · August 20, 2009, 06:23:03 AM

Hey Guys,

Okay so i was wondering if you could help me?, Well My sisters Laptop "Dell inspiron 6000" yes its very old, However it has been getting the blue screen of death, So we Reformatted it. And its still happening But we don't have any new hardware pluged in and it keeps telling us this so what should i do?
Please Help!

Thanks [JJT]Jay
EDIT: she told me this is what it looks like now and it doesn't happen when she installs a new software it happens from time to time eg it happen when she was browesing through the net its not timed its Random.

Nka19 · August 20, 2009, 08:38:20 AM

Hey Jay

What windows operation system did you install on it? If that laptop isn't strong enough to run it this might be the reason.
I once install some new Vista Black edition 2009 64-bit on my old PC and I was keep getting this blue screen errors so then I just installed good old XP Professional and it was all ok.

JJT17 · August 20, 2009, 08:43:34 AM

Well it came with the restore disc so it was XP home and we kept Xp home

Nka19 · August 20, 2009, 09:09:27 AM

Quote from: jay_thomas on August 20, 2009, 08:43:34 AM
Well it came with the restore disc so it was XP home and we kept Xp home

Ah, then it's not what I thought it could be.

macress345 · August 20, 2009, 03:46:34 PM

There could be lots of reasons. Old hardware, bad drivers, bad hardware, etc. Good luck trying to get it fixed I just recommend you try a different OS and if that doesnt work try different drivers AND if that doesnt work she probably needs a new laptop.

X · August 20, 2009, 07:20:53 PM

"Blue screen of death" is a screen which is shown because the memory on your system was overloaded, so in essence you basically need new Random Access Memory (RAM)

JJT17 · August 21, 2009, 04:20:56 AM

Hi agian
But this happend after we put more in (RAM),we put 1 more gb in

macress345 · August 21, 2009, 11:23:53 AM

Well then its most likely your RAM. Try taking out the new RAM and see how it works and make sure the RAM you added is compatible with your computer. Some RAM sticks are very picky about certain motherboards and wont always work with all kinds.

JJT17 · August 21, 2009, 04:48:09 PM

Well Stumpy
thank you your idea seems to be working At the moment
And it hasn't showed up with "The Blue screen of Death" so thanks
And thank you for all eles wo posted

Regards.
[JJT]Jay