Hi,

I apologise in advance if I have posted this in the wrong forum.

Anyway, yesterday a blue DOS screen suddenly appeared saying that it had intervened to prevent further damage to my computer. It displayed the error message :

STOP: 0x0000000A (0x41F9458C, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x80669158)

and said that it had dumped all physical memory.

I re-booted in SAFE mode, ran a virus scan and removed the 3 items which were infected. This seemed to sort out the problem and the computer ran normally for the rest of the day.

Today, however, the same thing HAPPENED and the same blue DOS screen appeared. Again, I re-booted in safe mode and ran a virus scan. This time the virus scan was unable to complete due to an error so I downloaded another virus removal tool from the McAfee website. When running this scanner the blue DOS screen appeared again. Now I am unable to even start up in safe mode (it just FREEZES on the DOS screen or loads Windows, only to instantly display an error box informing me that an error occurred and it is going to re-boot).

I am running Windows XP on a 3GHz Dell PC with 1GB RAM and a fully updated version of McAfee Internet Security Suite 2008.

Please help!!

IainHello!

Have you installed software/hardware recently?

Do you have your XP cd?Are you sure that error message is TYPED correctly ?Hi,

1) I have not installed anything other than a new wireless printer (about 8 days ago with no problems)

2) Yes I have still got all the original system software

3) I did type in the error message correctly, BUT I have since realised that the numbers in brackets change with each new error message.

Do you think I'll need to re-format my hard drive? (I have installed new hard drives before, so should not be a problem. Just a bit of a pain!)

Thanks for your feedback.

IainIt's most likely a driver issue:
See Heresame thing happened to me and that blue screen also made me the computer unable to boot. I still the problem until now. And even post a topic here asking for suggestions. I manage to boot by disconnecting two of my hard disk and boot again when disk boot failure appeared at start up. Im doing it EVERY now and then when the blue screen appear. I am planning also to format and install a fresh windows but i am not sure if that is really the solution because i just reformat and install windows last week.Hello kardels!

Please start your own topic and include your computer specifications so that it will get complete attention of members.