Bluescreen of Death

Hello, any help would be appreciated.
The other night I was on my powermac g5 and it crashed. I restarted, it went to grey screen, loading icon, and then blue screen and just stopped. I tried starting in safe mode by holding down shift while starting up and then releasing shift after the loading icon on the grey screen but it just completely shuts down after that.
help!

Hi sssnole;
That doesn't sound good at all. It sounds like it is time to take it to the shop.
Allan

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"It's not a true crash, in the sense that the Blue Screen was initiated only because the combination of video driver and video hardware was being unresponsive, and not because of any synchronous processing exception".
Since Vista, the "Timeout Detection and Recovery" (TDR) components of the OS video subsystem have been capable of doing some truly impressive things to try to recover from issues which would have caused earlier OS's like XP to crash.
As a last resort, the TDR subsystem sends the video driver a "please restart yourself now!" command and waits a few seconds.
If there's no response, the OS concludes that the video driver/hardware combo has truly collapsed in a heap, and it fires off that stop 0x116 BSOD.
If playing with video driver versions hasn't helped, make sure the box is not overheating.
Try removing a side panel and aiming a big mains fan straight at the motherboard and GPU.
Run it like that for a few hours or days - long enough to ascertain whether cooler temperatures make a difference.
If so, it might be as simple as dust buildup and subsequently inadequate cooling.
I would download cpu-z and gpu-z (both free) and keep an eye on the video temps
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff557263%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
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No video out/improper resolution and no video acceleration: Reinstall graphics driver
No wifi/bad connection: Reinstall wifi driver, mess with channel settings on your card and router for better results.
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Help i don't remember my password! I can't boot into my computer anymore!: Don't ask for help here. If you bought the computer or stole it, you'd better **bleep** have that password, or else you have a VERY expensive paperweight. Thats how IBM/Lenovo design their systems to discourage theft.
No power to computer AT ALL: Sorry to have to say this, but your computer is dead and gone. The motherboard is fried, and there is no way to fix it on your own. It will be very costly to fix, and better to move on to a new thinkpad.
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T30: May have defective RAM slot, hence the system will not boot. Repair costs around 50$. If you get a 1 long beep, and 2 short beeps on start up, just throw your machine away, as it has a dead motherboard, and is not worth the amount of money to repair it.
T40/T41/T42/T43: If you get NO VIDEO and NO BEEPS on startup, this is likely due to the fact that the video card contacts have broken off. A temporary fix is pressing down on the keyboard, or putting post it notes between keyboard and video card. Long term solutions:
Reballing: $50+
New motherboard: $150+
USB 2.0 ports functioning as USB 1.1, or not working at all!
Motherboard issue. Must be replaced.
I hope that this guide will help most people with generic issues! Good luck to all! Suggestions welcome!
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Is there nothing better around???

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this was the greeting when i logged in some minutes ago ... this brings me to another thinking: the only thing archlinux cannot support are "bluescreens of death" (those, who changed totally to non-windows-os and forgot: = the nice screens that apear when your (windows)kernel is in panic) ... well, you can simulate simmilar things with fortune
to the subject:
i wanted to install a 3rd OS on my notebook (besides the 2GBwinXP and arch), after removing finally SuSE 8.2 --- now, arch is my prime OS, winXP is kept only because of compatibility --- when someone wants to do something only a windows is able to (e.g. to crash the OS when you dont expect it to crash --- while clicking the most important button on such an OS ).
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gentoo --- maybe when it becomes mature, great docs!
sourcer --- maybe when it becomes mature, and cleans up
slackware --- not modern enough, but my favourite for years
SuSE --- >7.1pro are not longer "linux", sorry (but great package-repository)
RedHat --- Toys are nice, but this is not an OS, sorry
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FreeBSD --- the logo is ok, the system not up-to-date
i tried to build a generic, source-driven, linux (do it your self - linux), but the dependences make you crazy after the first weekend :-)
-> i'm going to install a 2nd arch on this drive ... it will become the backup-system
-> if someone can tell me another linux distro i should try i didnt already ... i'm hearing...

_JeffG_ wrote:
FreeBSD --- the logo is ok, the system not up-to-date
What do you mean by this? I just scrapped a working up-to-date FreeBSD install for Arch Linux. In my opinion the only thing FreeBSD was missing was good browser plugins and a good jdk.
Jeff
-> JDK is too old (as you also saw)
-> some hardware are not supported (i cant watch TV over my USB-Hauppauge-card :-( ) ... the linux-kernel is better from this point of view
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I know XP is OLD but the customer did not want to buy WIN7 at this stage.
Tried with WIN7-install and it continues to the format-drive part (ie works fine), I did not continue there...

Quote from: MrMonster on 05-April-12, 22:49:37
hi, have you solved the problem? I'm too interested to know more about your problem (I'm searching an m-atx board for a win xp installation).Let's hope someone will reply, in any case please if you find a solution please report if you understand what the problem was.
many thanks
Not solved at this time, (will try IDE-mode on the drive).
Try H67-chipset instead when looking for matx-board...

Problem with Windows Installer package. A required program couldn't be run

Hello -
I have a problem re-installing iTunes on my Windows Vista computer.
This is my exact message - note NO Error Codes included:
There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.
Other similar problems to this that I've seen from Google searches have error codes included or different wording. This is exactly what I see.
Leading up to this, my printer had unexpectedly uninstalled itself (card readers were Drive H) and my external hard drive (which used to be Drive G) and the printer's card reader swapped drive letters all by themselves so now the printer/card reader is Drive G and the External hard drive is Drive H.
then I found that iTunes and QuickTime had also uninstalled themselves and I was getting BlueScreen of Death crashes.
I had to manually delete as many iTunes and QuickTime folders, shortcuts, etc that I could find since I couldn't do a proper Uninstall.
Now the computer is absolutely perfect (no more BlueScreen crashes) except I cannot reinstall iTunes and QuickTime - I get the message above.
Can anyone please help me?
Thank you!
Graciecatt

Try the following user tip:
"There is a problem with this Windows Installer package ..." error messages when installing iTunes for Windows

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