Blue screen of death and cannot go so safe mode

[keriannessalon]

unmountable boot volume cannot go to safe mode

stop: 0x000000ed (0x83ab5360,0x0000185, 0x000000, 0x00000000)
Dell Desktop E521
Vista

 

[gamerk316]

Check BIOS and make sure the boot order is correct, and you aren't accidentally in IDE mode.

 

[keriannessalon]

set up then?

 

[keriannessalon]

this is what i have...
1 onboard floppy (not present)
2 bootable hard drive
3 onboard cdrom drive
4 non-intergrated nic (np)
5 usb-fdd (np)
6 usb-zip (np)
7 usb-cdrom (np)
8 usb-device (np)

 

[keriannessalon]

ive flipped 2 and 3 to 1&2 and vise versa

 

[Brett928S2]

Hi

Run a hard drive test in DOS...HIRENS CD etc, it sounds like a failing hard drive...

All the best Brett

 

[xheinz]

During the blue screen at the very bottom does it tell you a driver name like "drivername.sys"?
or maybe some components in your computer could be loose.