my pc froze up on me over night, when i went to restart it now gives me the blue screen of death and then restarts. i tried starting it up in safe mode, last know good config, and normal and it does the same thing....just gives me the blue screen and restarts again. the blue screen only stays on for a split second before restarting so i can't get all of the message, but it's something like this:

try restarting and you i got he screen again then to try uninstalling any new software or hardware that might fix the problem. it also said to disable any BIOS caching or shadowing.

STOP 0x000000ED

That's about all i can get off of the screen before it restarts.

please help i need to get my resume off of my pc for a job promotion.

thanks,
justin

Normally, that stop code means that you have a dead hard drive. If you have your original XP cd rom you can use it to try to boot from. When you first start the machine, but before it can boot into windows, you should see a message like Hit DEL to enter into Bios. Do that, and once in BIOS change the booting sequence from the Hard Drive to the CD Rom. Exit the Bios and when asked to save the change, press Y for yes. Put your XP CD in and let the machine boot up. Generally, it will give you some choices, you want to Repair. Before you go any farther, you should see something like a Dos prompt. To see if your hard drive is working type C: and hit Enter. If the hard drive comes up, you can at least know it may still be working. If it doesn't, it is unlikely that you will be able to repair it.

Your computer is restarting automatically by design. Most BSOD errors are resolved (at least in the short term) by a simple reboot. We always turn off the automatic restart feature in the computers we build for our customers because it aids in providing support.

First, you need to disable the automatic restart. To do this, you need to get to the start-up menu. This is the same menu you used to get into Safe Mode. If you don't know how to get there, we have written a free instruction article on our website that should help. You can view it at:

http://www.schrockinnovations.com/safemode.php

Once you are at the start-up menu, select disable automatic restart. With that out of the way, let your computer boot and write down the full error for research later if need be.

To test your hard drive, boot from a Windows XP CD. If you don't have a windows XP CD, you can get one from http://www.bootdisk.com. Once you have booted from CD, press r to enter the recovery console. You may have to press enter a couple of times to get to the c:\windows prompt, but you should get there eventually.

Once there, type in "chkdsk /p" (without the quotes) and press enter. Windows will now perform a quick surface scan of the hard drive. If there are problems, when it is done it will say "Check Disk found one or more errors on the volume." If this is the case, then type "chkdsk /r" (again, without the quotes and press enter. This one could take a while, but it will fix the problems on the hard drive if it can.

Once it is done, then type "chkdsk /p" again and press enter. If it comes back with the same errors on volume message, it is time for a new drive. If it comes back with no error message, then try rebooting. Hopefully, that will resolve the issue.

If it doesn't, you may want to check out the Microsoft website at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q297185

Great stuff guys!

How about telling hijm to reset the CMOS, just pull the battery, which resets the BIOS/CMOS to fail-safe defaults, and going from there?

How much RAM do you have installed? RAM is generally the first problem, if you have two or more sticks, pull one, then continue to swap them out, until the problem goes away or re-occurs.

Also, try to restart in "safe mode", hold F8 while booting, then choose "safe mode".

If you can boot in like that(safe mode), restart your computer, normally, might do the trick. :^)