How to stop the blue screen of death

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Skysurfer · #1 Post by **Skysurfer** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:32 pm

I've have a T43 for a few years now and suddenly I started getting the BSOD today every time I popped in a DVD or CD-RW. How can I fix this? Reinstall a driver? (If so, where can I download it?) Or...<gulp>...reformat C:?

Happy New Year!

Lawrence

#2 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:25 pm

How about trying another drive?
Drivers don't cause these problems.

Skysurfer · #3 Post by **Skysurfer** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:52 pm

RealBlackStuff wrote:How about trying another drive?
Drivers don't cause these problems.

A few of the disks work in the T43 and all of the disks work in a T60 I borrowed. There doesn't seem to be a pattern as to which disks the T43 will handle, but the machine did work with all of them not too long ago.

What do you recommend?

Thanks!

Lawrence

#4 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:53 pm

How about trying another drive?

dr_st · #5 Post by **dr_st** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:22 am

1) It would help to know what the Bluescreen actually says...
2) As RBS suggested, try to determine whether the drive is faulty. Borrow that T60 again, and swap the Ultrabay drives between the two machines. Then see if those disk that failed to read in your T43 work when:
* In the T60 inside your drive
* In the T43 inside the T60 drive

#6 Post by **Tasurinchi** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:07 am

Skysurfer wrote:How can I fix this?

Install any Linux distro

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