It was about 30 minutes into the reformat and the blue screen is the type that says beginning dump of physical memory...\n\nI had been having blue screen errors before, but not that one. My other blue screen errors are the reason I was trying to reformat.\n\nThanks for your help
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Chances are your hard drive is failing and needs to be replaced.  The driver software for the hardware is throwing these exceptions because the hardware may not be responding to the driver code.\n\nIf you hear any discernable, repeating sounds from your hard drive, especially when trying to re-format, that is also a good indication that something is awry.  Physical failure from a device with moving parts is imminent; It's probably time to buy a new hard drive.\n\nEdit: Even if the driver were brand new, but that still doesn't mean it does not have defects or wasn't kicked around possibly damaging something internally.  Also, anything with moving parts is subject to fail over time.  I've heard of people buying new cars that have major components fail; it may be a rarity, but it happens.  With regards to the IRQ situation mentioned, I imagine that's a possibility; some motherboard BIOSes allow for IRQs to be assigned to PCI slots.  usually plug-and-play technology is usually good about re-assigning IRQs to hardware that support plug-and-play.  I would also think (unless you've installed or upgraded to new devices or OS, that this problem would have occurred formatting the initial drive) Maybe you have some really old piece of hardware installed that uses conflicting IRQ?\n\nAnother option is that the driver for the device itself has a bug that isn't going to be apparent to the average user.  Your best bet is to get the memory 'dump' with all the information on the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) to an individual who can analyze post-mortem driver failure.\n\nPossibly your quickest recourse is to try and swap the drive with a new one of the same type.  If the problem still occurs, then I'd chalk it up to IRQ conflicts / faulty drivers.  Otherwise, you just may have gotten a lemon.\n\nEdit 2: I've also noticed you asked another question previously which pertains to another STOP message.  Assuming that it's not a driver bug, you may have defective memory chips on your PC.  (The other question was referring to a memory list being corrupted.)  Try replacing your memory as well (perhaps you recently upgraded memory as well?) and see if that corrects the problem.  At least nowadays, memory is inexpensive.
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sounds like you have PC Alzheimers    reformat the hard drive and  start over.   C:/format   from the  command prompt
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The first one is a dump file which was created when it crashed. PRoably the second one too. \nThere is a worm/trojan that causes the computer to start by itelf over and over but I don't think it would be creating those error reports. \nMight want to check a program called "MEMTEST" \nhttp://www.hcidesign.com/memtest/ it sounds like a RAM problem to me. \nCheck this Microsoft site for more info.\nhttp://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp\n You can make a boot floppy with one of these programs to test the memory before it goes into windows.
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Welcome your new friend the B.S.O.D (blue screen of death)\n\nIf the message is saying your HDD is corrupt, then your chances of it working normally is pretty much slim, Your best chance is to re-install your version of Windows...\n\nOr if your using XP, try using the repair function on the disc instead of a full re-install...\n\nhope this helps
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Remove it from Bios and try, not so sure it'll work, cos drive B is reserved for secondary Floppy Disk Drive.\n\nGood Luck :)
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I'd hate to provide the alternative of installing it from the HP Recovery Console, but I think that would be the best idea. It sounds like there could be drivers and options in the disc that could be missing from your system, but I can't really tell what they would be without being able to deal with your system (And I'm pretty new to HP myself, so I probably still wouldn't know.) I know it's annoying since they load a bunch of crap from the factory back on the system, but I think it might be the safest way to restore your system back to working condition.\n\nMaybe someone else has a suggestion of how to get it done without doing this?
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When it is a hardware problem, I'll take it to computer shop. But when it is something other than a hardware problem, I'll fix it myself. Want to know how? Simply reformat and reinstall windows. I love doing it.
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Restart the system, keep hitting the F8 key until you get into the menu, at the menu select "Use last known good configuration"\n\nIf that works then bingo, if not then if you can get into windows at all then go to start--> run and type ( or if you are lazy copy and paste this command )\n\nsfc /scannow\n\nMake sure to have the xp disc or the recovery disc handy.\n\nIf that does not work then back up all of your data and do a clean install.\n\nHow to do a repair install :\n\nhttp://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm\n\nHow to do a clean install :\n\nhttp://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html\n\nHope this helps.
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I would format the hard drive and start again.\n\nFlashing the bios updates the brain of the poota. I wouldn't recommend that at all. If you get it wrong you then have a big heavy paper weight.\n\n\nXP only runs on NTFS
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That all depends on what is causing the error.  Blue screens are not specific to one problem.  It could be one or more of many things.  As the above answerer stated, copying down the stop error code and using a search engine will usually generate good results.
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fix the ram in other slot this may work AND use a software to test ur ram works fine \nhere is a link from microsoft gives details about blue screen \nhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/winxp?sid=1409\ntry to get the error message from "system events" under computer management
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blue screen of death is your technical term..reinstall windows or replace harddrive then install windows but in order to do this you MUST have the windows disk..so unless you have a generous friend i suggest a trip to the store...newegg.com has it fairly cheap..the windows program....best of luck from a friendly computer repair technician:)
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If you upgrade from a pentium 3 to a pentium 4  but didn't to a fresh install of windows you should definitly update your screencard, sound card and motherboard drivers.\n\nYour next option might be to make sure that your current ram is 100% compatible with your motherboard and also make certain that there are no problems with your ram.\n\nAlso turn off automatic restarts in XP, so that you can see what information is displayed when the error occurs. To disable autoimatic restarting in windows XP goto control panel (instructions are for the classic view). Open SYSTEM and CLICK on the ADVANCED tab. under the section STARTUP AND RECOVERY click the SETTINGS button. Uncheck the combo box labeled AUTOMATICALLY RESTART in the SYSTEM FAILURE section.\n\nAfter that if you recieve a blue screen you can record the information there. If will also tell you where the minidump is stored, you can contact me and i'll give you my email adress so you can send me the minidump for debuging. EDIT: the blue screen should give you an indication of where to start looking for the problem, i.e. what driver it could be.\n\nIf you dont see a blue screen upon restarting it's more likely a hardware problem. this could be due to a underpower system, faulty power supply, corrupted ram or some other hardware major hardware problem. \n\nTo check the ram goto http://www.memtest86.com or if you have a linux boot cd lying around it might give you the option to run memtest from it.
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Well the drive may be bad. Know that.\n\nYou can use a few tools to boot and scan disks and even reformat them.\n\nStart with BartPE... it is a windows environment loaded from CD.\n\nFrom there you can launch all sorts of drive utilities.\n\nStart with a scan, then reformat, then buy a new drive...
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You might want to think about reformatting your hard drive and doing a fresh install of the operating system. This is usually a last resort after all other troubleshooting is done. If the install does not work then you might be looking at a hardware problem.
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Check the link below; it discusses this blue screen stop message and how to resolve it.
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depends on your system : are you booting in windows? Whats happening on your system now?  What recovery options did you have on your system HDD/DISK based ?\n\nIf so you could try a recovery on your machine - but beware some systems may crash out and you may have to do a TATTOO/ EXTHS on your system\n\nNeed more info