Bluescreen while booting up

My Laptop recently keeps showing a bluescreen when it's about to go to the login screen or just loading up windows. It can reach the login screen with safe mode and I tried system restore from safe mode but it still shows up. This is my first time using safe mode, I don't know much how to use it. The Laptop is a Thinkpad with windows XP.

Techincal Information: 0x0000007E

Edit: In SCSI and Raid controllers it saids unknown device. How do I update it when the Internet has no connect in safe mode?

 

Try Safe mode with networking.

 

Safe mode with networking hasn't open once yet. It's always a blue screen.

 

Did you happen to make a change in the BIOS recently? If not you could try installing a 2nd copy of XP into Windows2 and determine if it's a hardware or software issue.

 

No, since I didn't know the Bios exist until yesterday. I don't have any windows CDs. I just had a good idea but it backfired. Since I can't use the Internet, I thought maybe if I download the drivers and Driver Detective for scanning with my PSP and then transfer it to the Laptop with a USB, I could install them in safe mode. Unfortuately I get this message: "This installation package could not be opened" message. I'm trying to see if fixing the yellow unknown device will work.

 

Run a system file check and a chkdsk from the command lind in windows recovery.

A bit busy right now to write out the details, a google search should get you instructions.

 

if you do manage to get it to boot then download Who Crashed and post results. it will give us a full dump report on what could be causing it.

what we also need to know is what you was doing upuntil it crashed.
updated software lately or loaded new drivers. done a anti virus scan or downloaded the latest windows updates. any of these things could be part of the problem.

 

I think I just messed it up. When the Laptop tries to boot windows in normal mode, it will start a chkdsk that was scheduled but the problem is that every time it does that a blue screen comes up and restarts. Safe mode now freezes and never opens, so there's nothing else to do. I was thinking of getting a recovery boot CD. Thanks for the help though.

 

That's usually hard drive issue, download and burn disc from Ultimate Boot CD - Overview and run Seagate Seatools (works on basically all brand drives). Run both short and long generic tests, long test might take hours to complete.

If that doesn't find any errors, then run memtest86+ once, preferably overnight.

Those two I usually do first on my client computers before I even boot the OS. Simple way to rule out most common hardware issues causing software troubles.

 

I don't think it's a virus, which is good.
I believe it's something technical like the CPU or the hard drive.
If you have a spare hard drive laying around, try replacing it with the one in the computer.

 

I finally got a recovery disc, but I don't think my Thinkpad can boot from it. In the bios start up section, there's no CD rom on the list. It only has "ATAPI CDO:HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD Drive" which I think it's the closes one to a CD rom bios. I put it first and save, but when I turn on the Laptop with the CD inside, it goes straight to loading windows XP and not ask me to boot from the CD. Do I need a USB CD drive? It has it on the list.

 

Luis try changing the BIOS boot list, and make sure the only option is the optical drive.
OR When you start the system (power on), start immidiately tapping the ESC key

 

You mean to make it only run Atapi? How do I disable the other bios in the boot list?

I think I should take out the hard drive, since the recovery CD can boot a computer with no hard drive. I noticed that I rarely hear the disc spinning, while it's inside. I don't remember if it's suppose to be spinning during boot up, I did heard it before. Maybe the bios boots faster than the CD drive.

Edit: I have a 0x000000ED error now.