Still need help with mah poor laptop D:

[KittKat chunky~]

So yeah, my brother-in-law and me tried fixing all the blue-screen errors I had been having by updating drivers and stuff...

At first it seemed it had worked, no more random blue screen errors at random times, laptop was working fine, catalyst control center working fine, showing no conflicting hardware... But now I get a blue screen error occasionally when I try to shut down or restart my laptop.


When I hit shut down (or restart)  very occasionally the screen will turn white covered in multi-coloured static lines, then jump to a blue screen error, except the blue screen is about half the size of the normal error and surrounded by a thick black border. After it dumps physical memory the laptop restarts fine and no data is lost or anything, but I still wanna get to the bottom of this problem.

So yeah, if anyone has any help at all to do with windows 7, toshiba laptops and bad drivers (specifically when shutting down, as my laptop seems fine otherwise) then any help would be greatly appreciated! 


(I have a L300D Toshiba Satellite, windows vista upgraded to windows 7)

[White Wolf Guardian]

Err... two suggestions, either toss the hard drive because it sounds damaged and replace or buy a new laptop. That hardware is probably 3 or 4 years old right?

[Kyriin]

the screen will turn white covered in multi-coloured static lines

Sounds like when I hit my laptop and shocked the harddrive. So, White could very well be right about what you should do to your harddrive.
For the BSE's, try booting from your installation CD and doing a repair - worked for me (unless it blue screens when you boot from the CD... which, is.. REALLY.. annoying. but should work after a while if that happens)

Edit: Also, seeing as you've had hard drive issues previously (thread on having low disk space without any explanation as to why) I would take that as more of a guess to get the HDD replaced.

[KittKat chunky~]

Well, I installed the windows 7 service pack which came out this week... *touch-wood and cross-fingers* I havent had any problems since! 

Although I hope to replace this laptop, I am a student... And therefore I have no money with which to buy a new harddrive or laptop atm     

[Kato Fox]

what i would do is keep the registry clean by doing system cleans every once and a while.. if it still hapens then do what  White Wolf Guardian is saying