Fatal Attraction........Er! Exception error

[gas path]

Twice quite recently I've suffered the 'blue screen of death' on boot up, doing a soft restart goes to the normal screen recommending 'safe mode' which I ignore and select 'normal', after the scan disc is done everything is back o.k. with no more problems.
What do you think folks? Time for a new hard disc before it's too late?
BTW the error message is 017f:bff72170

[DreamCatcher]

Happens to everyone at some time or other, and it can be anything.

Next time, try selecting normal with a boot log. That way you can read the text log afterwards (usually directly under C:\) and it may point to an errant driver.

Common causes though are poorly seated RAM, graphics drivers, or just in need of a good defrag.

Hope that helps a bit. :)

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[Flyswift]

Agree with Dreamcatcher.....

You don't get 'blue screens of death' on a iminant HD failure. They only relate to a corrupt/unloadable driver.

It won't hurt as mentioned to run 'defrag' occasionaly

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[FireDragon]

Also

Select the step-by-step booting option. If there is a faulty driver, etc.. it should show itself.

If this is so, edit autoexec.bat, or config.sys, (depending on where the driver is), and put a REM statement (remark), before the offending article.

If all is then ok, you will need to re-install the driver/file at fault

FD

[gas path]

Many thanks for the info folks!
When I get some spare time I'll give it a go.
All seems pretty stable at the mo'