Blue screen of death on my laptop.....

[Polarbear]

and a message saying something about memory manager before it dissapears.

Also had windows saying it can't access certain files, then it dies shortly afterwards.

Is this a hard drive problem or something else. It's not worth taking it to a repairers but if its just a hard drive I'll do it myself.

Obviously I don't waant to buy a hard drive and then find its memory or motherboard or something.

Any suggestions welcomed
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Victory Cross Country American tractor.

[Redoko]

Did it say memory dump with a percentage counter going up in 5's?

Also, don't suppose your laptop is a Packard Bell?
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[Polarbear]

[GhostRider]

Use memtest86 to rule out memory errors.

GhostRider
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[Redoko]

[Polarbear]

Cheers Redoko, it was a driver problem - sorted it now (more by luck than judgement, lol)
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