Major BSODs and their typical causes

Major BSODs and their typical causes. Sr No Stop Error Description Significance Troubleshooting steps 10x000000EDUNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUMEAs the name suggests, related to the file system. Could be due to a corruption toboot.ini or a bad HDD1. Run diags on HDD. Fails? Try a Format-Reinstall. No go? Replace HDD 2 Passes. Run a chkdsk /r. No go? 3. Format-Reinstall 20x00000024NTFS_FILE_SYSTEMAs the name suggests, related to the file system. Could be due to a bad HDD1. Run diags on HDD. Fails? Try a Format-Reinstall. No go? Replace HDD 2. Passes. Run a chkdsk /r to repair the file system. No go? 3. Format-Reinstall 30x0000007BINACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICEWindows lost access to the system partition or boot volume during the startup process. Is the HDD detected...

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Laptop taking too much time to shutdown

Laptop taking too much time to shutdown? We have observed that some of the laptops takes more the 5 minutes to close all the applications and shutdown, to reduce this process time follow below instructions Click on Start button select run and type regedit Expand :  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control Edit the value data of wait to kill service timeout to 1500 This will improve the performance of shutdown ...

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How to get OS installed

Operating system, OS Installation, Win Xp, Installed Date, Date, OS installed date, How to get OS installed date in Win Xp :How to get OS installed date in Win Xp?Solution1.Click the Start button.2.From the Start Menu click Run.3.In the Run dialog box type: CMD /K WMIC OS GET InstallDate4.Command promt window will open and it shows the following eg : InstallDate20071123125156.000000+330Here first 8 digits i.e 20071123(yy-mm-dd) is the date os installed....

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Make Windows Shutdown Faster

Problem When you shutdown Windows, it takes a long time to do so whilst hanging on the message “Shutting down”. Solution Click the Start button (Windows XP users should then click Run). Type regedit and press Enter to open the Registry Editor. Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\ On the right hand side, double click on “ClearPageFileAtShutdown”. Change the value from 1 to 0 and press OK. Close the Registry Editor...

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BIOS Beep Codes

BIOS Beep CodesWhen a computer is first turned on, or rebooted, its BIOS performs a power-on self test (POST) to test the system's hardware, checking to make sure that all of the system's hardware components are working properly. Under normal circumstances, the POST will display an error message; however, if the BIOS detects an error before it can access the video card, or if there is a problem with the video card, it will produce a series of beeps, and the pattern of the beeps indicates what kind of problem the BIOS has detected.Because there are many brands of BIOS, there are no standard beep codes for every BIOS.The two most-used brands are AMI (American Megatrends International) and Phoenix.Below are listed the beep codes for AMI systems, and here are the beep codes for Phoenix systems.AMI...

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1024 RESERVED PORTS

IANA Keyword Port IANA Desciption 0 Reserved tcpmux 1 TCP Port Service Multiplexer compressnet 2 Management Utility compressnet 3 Compression Process rje 5 Remote Job Entry echo 7 Echo discard 9 Discard systat 11 Active Users daytime 13 Daytime (RFC 867) qotd 17 Quote of the Day msp 18 Message Send Protocol chargen 19 Character Generator ftp-data 20 File Transfer [Default Data] ftp 21 File Transfer [Control] ssh 22 SSH Remote Login Protocol telnet 23 Telnet 24 any private mail system smtp 25 Simple Mail Transfer nsw-fe 27 NSW User System FE msg-icp 29 MSG ICP ...

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