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Compaq Presario
120GB Hard drive
1024 Mb Ram
Pentium 4 / 2.50Ghz
Windows XP w/SP2
Performed a normal shut down of my Compaq Presario that next month would be celebrating its 10th birthday. I don't usually turn off, when I turned on about a day later it immediately would turn off (2-4 seconds) then try to reboot going into endless loop of shutdowns and restarts. After a few tries with the power button I finally saw my first bsod screen:
ntsf.sys PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
STOP:0x00000050 (0xE14E4FF8,0x00000001,0xF720B8E4,0X00000002)
ntsf.sys - Address F720B8E4 base at F71C8000 DateStamp 3b5e3ba9
I was only able to achieve safemode once where after a few seconds went into a reboot and bsod.
Performed chkdsk, detected no problems.
I have been trying to access the Recovery Console and get 3 options;
1: D:\MiniNT
2: D:\I386
3: C:\WINDOWS
After repeated tries with all three options I only get the prompt selected, either 1,2 or 3.
I'm not sure what to do at that point but after typing "help" at the C prompt did try one command "fixboot".
Didn't resolve anything so I'm back to square one.
Help, any suggestions please!
Compaq Presario
120GB Hard drive
1024 Mb Ram
Pentium 4 / 2.50Ghz
Windows XP w/SP2
Performed a normal shut down of my Compaq Presario that next month would be celebrating its 10th birthday. I don't usually turn off, when I turned on about a day later it immediately would turn off (2-4 seconds) then try to reboot going into endless loop of shutdowns and restarts. After a few tries with the power button I finally saw my first bsod screen:
ntsf.sys PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
STOP:0x00000050 (0xE14E4FF8,0x00000001,0xF720B8E4,0X00000002)
ntsf.sys - Address F720B8E4 base at F71C8000 DateStamp 3b5e3ba9
I was only able to achieve safemode once where after a few seconds went into a reboot and bsod.
Performed chkdsk, detected no problems.
I have been trying to access the Recovery Console and get 3 options;
1: D:\MiniNT
2: D:\I386
3: C:\WINDOWS
After repeated tries with all three options I only get the prompt selected, either 1,2 or 3.
I'm not sure what to do at that point but after typing "help" at the C prompt did try one command "fixboot".
Didn't resolve anything so I'm back to square one.
Help, any suggestions please!