I have played around a little bit and tried to gather as much information as I can.
As suggested I ran the chkdsk function, which waited until I started, then scanned my disk. It reported 0 bad file records, 0 EA records 44 reparse records, and 960 large file records. Reported 0 unindexed files.
After the chkdsk the login screen appears, and after I log in the welcome message with the little circle appears as normal.
After this I get a black screen with the cursor and the “wait” circle then after a while my desktop appears. It loads the volume, power, network drive info, date/time desktop shortcuts, taskbar programs, then I get the blue-screen.
The top reads" windows has encountered a problem and is shutting down to prevent damage".
underneath is
REGISTRY_ERROR
and near the bottom is the stop code 0x000051 (some number of zeros i couldn’t count
and in brackets several more numbers 0x00001, 0x8A0000(then maybe 2A).
The blue-screen disappeared before I could write down all the numbers.
After rebooting in safe mode a window appears with this information.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 51
BCP1: 0000000000000001
BCP2: FFFFF8A000024010
BCP3: 0000000000EB4000
BCP4: 0000000000000374
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1
Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\012313-24726-01.dmp
C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-69280-0.sysdata.xml
I opened the event viewer and a critical event that corresponds to the blue-screen time has the following information.
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System
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
[ Guid] {331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}
EventID 41
Version 2
Level 1
Task 63
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x8000000000000002
[ SystemTime] 2013-01-24T05:30:32.974011300Z
EventRecordID 137760
Correlation
[ ProcessID] 4
[ ThreadID] 8
Channel System
Computer My-Laptop
[ UserID] S-1-5-18
(upon preview the four bug check parameters seem to match the 4 numbers in brackets after the stop code, so it was likely 24 not 2A)
After poking around on the internet I tried to install a debugger to analyze the .dmp file but the installation did not succeed. From what I read however It seems that the problem might be that some component is not getting enough power. Is it likely that the problem is with my battery? or is there more likely a fault in some component. All of the blue-screens occurred when the laptop was plugged in and fully charged.
I will take a trip down to the CS department and see if they have anyone willing to help me tomorrow as well. I am not really attached to any of the files on my computer, I just need a working laptop for school so if they want to nuke the hard drive that’s not really a big problem, any software I need I can easily re-download.
Sorry for the lengthy post and thanks everyone for the help.