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Re: [OM] OT: Win7 Problem

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Win7 Problem
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:11:06 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     Not necessarily.  It operates properly in normal Win7 mode.  Doing the 
memory scan in normal mode ends up with no problems found.

>
>A memory parity error is a hardware problem.
>Sorry, can't hell otherwise. Good luck...
>
>On Thursday, 24 March 2016, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>      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

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