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by mjpierce24

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Hi guys, this is really weird. My tower is brand new, I've had it for only 4 months, and it works great...but lately, I'll have the computer running, and everything's working fine...then all of a sudden, this blue screen pops up that says "corrupt driver....explains a little..then "if this is the 2nd time you've seen this screen contact technical support". When i look at the "system tools", the boot driver says "critical" while evereything else says "normal". What does this mean? How do i fix it? Any ideas?

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by tmalo627

posting this again in the Questions section with more details regarding your OS and hardware. You'll get more feedback there.

by ---tk---

if your running XP, try jumping into safe mode hit F8 before windows loading screen appears (with the bar), find and replace the corrupt driver (device manager would be a good place to look for the driver thats causing the issue). If that doesnt work, I would try booting the the XP cd, jump into the recovery console, and run chkdsk c: /R - which will go through look for errors and attempt to fix them...

Vista, I would run the install CD and run the "repair" option, if it doesn't work the first time run it again... I had a corrupt .dll a while back, had to run the repair twice to fix it...

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