# My laptop is dead. **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [July 22, 2008, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-laptop-is-dead/237930 "2008-07-22T12:44:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bennyfizzle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bennyfizzle/32/6291_2.png) [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-laptop-is-dead/237930/1 "2008-07-22T12:44:13Z")
Gives me the blue screen of death regardless of the boot mode, gives a 0x00000024 error which I guess is some ntfs.sys file problem, so until my genious friends get a chance to fix it I won’t be doing much shifting. Be back soon enough hopefully, I’ll check back from Jeremiah’s comp occasionally. ---
**Author:** ![JClark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jclark/32/6309_2.png) [@JClark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JClark)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-laptop-is-dead/237930/2 "2008-07-22T13:03:04Z")
Was wondering if you’d died on your bday. Sorry I couldnt make it, had some people issues come up. :🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mk4_30r_ban/32/6347_2.png) [@Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mk4_30R_Ban)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-laptop-is-dead/237930/3 "2008-07-22T13:04:11Z")
to much porn benny. ---
**Author:** ![SlackJ94](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/slackj94/32/6325_2.png) [@SlackJ94](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SlackJ94)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-laptop-is-dead/237930/4 "2008-07-22T13:13:10Z")
Thats a memory address Benny. Looks like your hard drive has a corrupt sector, and that sector happens to be used in booting. Get a new hard drive and you should be good to go. Check out [newegg.com](http://newegg.com) for good prices on those. ---
**Author:** ![Shawn96VR-4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Shawn96VR-4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shawn96VR-4)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-laptop-is-dead/237930/5 "2008-07-22T15:41:39Z")
Get a HIRENS\_BOOT\_CD boot cd and do system tests such as hard drive. Perhaps you just need a refresh? ---
**Author:** ![Jimmerz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jimmerz/32/6370_2.png) [@Jimmerz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jimmerz)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-laptop-is-dead/237930/6 "2008-07-22T18:19:02Z")
> [@Shawn96VR-4](#): > > Get a HIRENS\_BOOT\_CD boot cd and do system tests such as hard drive. Perhaps you just need a refresh? yeah operating system re installation is always a good quick fix… if by chance it dos not work diagnosing the drive would be my next step. then the memory. ---
**Author:** ![stuffnthings](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/stuffnthings/32/6294_2.png) [@stuffnthings](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/stuffnthings)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-laptop-is-dead/237930/7 "2008-07-23T06:25:09Z")
dude, who the funk am i gonnna “buhhhhhhhhhhh” in tha am’s. ---
**Author:** ![Shawn96VR-4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Shawn96VR-4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shawn96VR-4)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-laptop-is-dead/237930/8 "2008-07-23T07:28:40Z")
> [@Jimmerz](#): > > yeah operating system re installation is always a good quick fix… if by chance it dos not work diagnosing the drive would be my next step. then the memory. Depending on system, I typically just re-install than diganose. It’s quicker sometimes and a good clean OS install is always good. ---
**Author:** ![K20power](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/41988e/32.png) [@K20power](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/K20power)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-laptop-is-dead/237930/9 "2008-07-23T13:03:24Z")
> [@Mk4 30R](#): > > to much porn benny. :+1 ---
**Author:** ![bennyfizzle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bennyfizzle/32/6291_2.png) [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-laptop-is-dead/237930/10 "2008-07-24T13:55:24Z")
I didn’t back anything up, I found a few fixes online, hopefully it’s not a hardware issue… ---
**Author:** ![bennyfizzle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bennyfizzle/32/6291_2.png) [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-laptop-is-dead/237930/11 "2008-07-25T13:08:19Z")
Laptop’s warranty expires 1/09, which also comes with Gold Tech Support/ProSupport so I talked with this weird dude for like two hours yesterday, tried a couple things to no avail so he overnighted me a windows cd, just ran chkdsk and fixed a few errors. next step is run windows on top of my old install to get some stuff back, then do a clean re-install…any ideas on getting my xp notebook to send shit to my rommates computer to bak it up? ---
**Author:** ![ninety1two40](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ninety1two40/32/6332_2.png) [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-laptop-is-dead/237930/12 "2008-07-25T17:13:39Z")
Share a folder on the other computer, find the computers name or ip and then on the laptop try to map a network drive. Usually something like this: \computername\shared folder That should work, do a google search for basic home networking XP. I would type more but I’m on a tablet PC. ---
**Author:** ![bennyfizzle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bennyfizzle/32/6291_2.png) [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-laptop-is-dead/237930/13 "2008-07-26T00:00:17Z")
That would work from XP Pro SP2 to Vista Home though? I’ve heard getting them to communicate seamlessly is a PITA. Anybody just have an external HD I could borrow? Only need like 4GB :idiots