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Subject: [OM] OT: Win7 Problem
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 08:42:10 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     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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