error code 0x000000ed(0x8236ce30, 0xc0000006, 0x00000000, 0x000000

I have a Dell dimension 3000 computer here. My friends kids did some
downloading that may have caused the problem.
We are getting the blue screen of death and cannot access safe mode or any
other selection that is available on this screen.
Does anyone know what the 0x8236ce30 code means?
Any information would be very helpful.
We would like to get this up and running again.
We do have the original windows 97 installation cd.
Thank you

This is an XP newsgroup yet you talk about a Win 97 (presumably Win 98) CD.
What system do you have on the PC?

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Ron Badour
MS MVP Shell User


"omarsmom1" <omarsmom1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A90D21A2-A922-4DE0-9EA8-6C23A2565958@microsoft.com...
>I have a Dell dimension 3000 computer here. My friends kids did some
> downloading that may have caused the problem.
> We are getting the blue screen of death and cannot access safe mode or any
> other selection that is available on this screen.
> Does anyone know what the 0x8236ce30 code means?
> Any information would be very helpful.
> We would like to get this up and running again.
> We do have the original windows 97 installation cd.
> Thank you

"omarsmom1" wrote:

> I have a Dell dimension 3000 computer here. My friends kids did some
> downloading that may have caused the problem.
> We are getting the blue screen of death and cannot access safe mode or any
> other selection that is available on this screen.
> Does anyone know what the 0x8236ce30 code means?
> Any information would be very helpful.
> We would like to get this up and running again.
> We do have the original windows 97 installation cd.
> Thank you

It means the kids downloaded an appliction not compatoble with the Operating
system/hardware or a viral application.

If you really what we think you have Windows 98 or 98SE you can restore the
computer by stating the Boot Menu and select command prompt and use this
command:
scanreg /restore a blue pop-up will come up and you can select a point
which set by date to an earlier date before the installation of these
programs!.
Then the computer will reboot and give you the normal boot options to select
and boot up the machien to normal.
How to Manually Restore the Windows 98/Me Registry
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221512

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/228779

But if we are talking about XP machine you can boot into last good known
configuration that worked.
Error Message when you restart your computer or upgrade to Windows XP: "STOP
0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME"
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q297185

Stop 0x000000ED Error Message When Volume on IDE Drive with Caching Enabled
Is Mounted
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q315403
HTH.
nass
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Dell™ Dimension™ 3000 Series
http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...0/en/index.htm