Okay, I'm primarily a WinXP user, but the Dell laptop that was given to me
a few years ago came with Win7, which gave me all sorts of headaches for one
reason or another. Mostly, I had no administrator access to anything and I
could not start it up in SAFE MODE.
A few weekends ago I bought a Campaq laptop at a garage sale and spent a
good deal of time configuring it to my liking. When I tried to do a virus scan
in SAFE MODE I found that AVAST would not do that, but in normal mode it has a
START TIME SCAN, which essentially does the same thing. It worked fine, and
knowing this I went back to the Dell laptop and did the same thing with the
Win7 OS. A number of problems were found that were not detected in normal Win7
mode, and when I rebooted I now had administrator access and I could enter into
the F8 menu. But, I could not run SAFE MODE due to an "NMI Memory Parity
Error", resulting in the Blue Screen of Death. Hmmm... Seems that a DLL or
something associated with the F8 startup option was corrupted. If I try to do
a SYSTEM REPAIR in the F8 menu I get the same error.
Hmmm...
I found a Microsoft self-help page that lists a number of things to try,
and I've earmarked that page to try this Sunday when I bring the Dell laptop to
the coffee shop for its weekly updating. In the meantime, should anyone know
of some remedy, I'd like to know. I DO NOT have any Win7 installation disks,
and I DO NOT want to update it to some later security challenged version.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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