I booted from a Linux CD and copied everything to an external hard
drive, then took it to a local shop where the tech recognized it as a
state he had seen before.  It looks like over the weekend, an update for
Steam arrived, but was corrupted -- this is the only computer I have
Steam installed on, and in fact I never actually use it.  So he will
uninstall Steam, and run diagnostics to determine whether that fixes the
problem -- with any luck, I'll have my working machine back by the
weekend!
  In the meantime, I fired up my wife's lsptop of roughly similar specs.
 (Gateway rather than Acer, since its screen seemed to be a bit
brighter....)  The built-in wifi adapter on that laptop seems to have
died, but I added an Edimax USB-Wifi dongle and got it working pretty
quickly.



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Win10 BSOD
From: Mark Rode <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, October 21, 2015 10:36 am
To: [log in to unmask]

The first thing I would determine is if the hard drive checks out OK
with a diagnostic program that should be available from the drives
manufacturer. Usually boot off a CD and run the diagnostic. If the
drive is OK then I would run Memtest to maker sure the RAM is OK. RAM
is usually the problem with a BSOD. If RAM is Ok I would try to boot
off a USB drive that gets you into Linux or Windows so you can
retrieve your data. I know you to be a Linux expert so you can pick
your distro to do this. Windows you can use Active Boot Disk
http://lsoft.net/store.aspx to do this. Expensive but it will do what
you want.

m


At 09:58 AM 10/20/2015, you wrote:
> Is there anything I should try before asking a local Laptop
> Repair shop to see if they can at least save my data? David Gillett
>
>

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