CHRIS_D

as the title says, my work laptop has just dumped it's physical memory.

what is physical memory, have i just lost all of my work, settings etc etc

how do i get it back

need help desperatley


Laptop is Compaq armada e500 with windows NT 4.0

suba

izzit the blue screen???

CHRIS_D

yeh it says the following

STOP: c0000135 {unable to locate DLL}
the dynamic link library winsrv could not be found in the specified path default load path

beginning dump of physical memory
physical memory dump complete. contact your system administrator or technical suppport group.




Am i fcuked then or what?

Kevin Greeley

Have you tried holding the power button down for > 2 seconds?

Normally restarts them. If not, there might be a tiny reset button somewhere.

CHRIS_D

tried that, nothing.

there is no tiny reset button either

bttt

richs2891

Could always remove the (laptop) battry and the mains and leave it a few mins and then turn on as normal

suba

ok... can you turn off your laptop and reboot? (make sure your laptop is rebooted and not waking up from suspend or hibernation)if yes, does it go into the blue screen and do it's memory dump?

if you had open files and they are not saved, you will loose it when your laptop goes into the memory dump (also notoriously known as BSoD - blue screen of death!).

CHRIS_D

ive just re-installed an earlier version of nt 4

got my documents, work etc back just need to find a way of transwering it to another pc.....cant get cd writer to work or network card

suba

have you install the proper drivers for your cd writer and network card? once you transfer you data, i suggest you do a fresh install of the OS. it's a bit of a pain but that's the best way to get rid of any gremlins in the OS, etc.

CHRIS_D

done it, there wasnt too much data so i managed to get it all on floppies

thanks for all the advice anyway

what a pain in the 4rse that was


conclusion: NT is really pants