Hi Dave, I could be a mile wide of the mark here, but a couple of weeks ago I had a DELL which gave very similar symptoms. But I'd need to see the full BSOD message to be absolutely sure. The bottom line, after considerable Googling, was that I had to slipstrean XP SR3 onto the original XP release CD, and re-install Windows to the existing Windows folder. George. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: 28 December 2009 20:56 To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] stop 0xc2 message and accessible troubleshooting Hello, I've got an xp machine, it's a dell-something running media center edition of xp. It's getting a BSOD stop error 0x000c2 which googling revealed was a kernel or memory driver issue. The machine will not boot normally and surprisingly not boot in safe mode. I'm going to start pulling memory chips, see if one of them is the cause, then clean out it's insides. If i have to go deeper in this are there any accessible troubleshooting environments, like a windows PE with accessibility such as sound enabled? Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins