Boot errors as they are commonly called, commonly show up while your Windows laptop starts or boots. Also known as STOP errors, they usually are accompanied with a blue screen and does not let your laptop boot normally.
Blue screen problems occur due to a severe damage or corruption to your Windows installation or system registry. A newly installed hardware on your laptop such as a new video or sound card, USB or controller card, or even new RAM chips, may cause a STOP error on your laptop.
Boot errors generally look like this:
Stop 0x0000002E or DATA_BUS_ERROR
Stop 0x0000000A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Stop 0x0000001E or KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
Now, each STOP error code has a specific meaning. Though it is a bit difficult to figure out what actions to take as a result of the descriptions attached to the various STOP error codes, you can still understand the cause and prevent from further exaggerating the problem. Say, if a newly installed hardware like printer, scanner etc has caused the problem, safely removing the recently installed hardware may relieve the error!
If you wish to resolve Windows STOP errors by yourself, then follow the understated steps:
1. Restart your laptop. If your computer is frozen you may need to do this via pressing and holding down the power button to manually shut the computer down, then pressing it again to restart.
2. As Windows is restarting, continually tap the F8 button until a boot menu appears with a number of options you can use your arrow keys to navigate to.
3. Select 'Last Known Good Configuration'
Windows will hopefully restart with the last configuration of settings that worked. This may resolve STOP errors in some cases.
However, if the problem is grave, you would again get the blue screen on your laptop and this time no resolution would work unless you seek technical support from laptop specialists. Some laptop specialists make use of remote technology to fix your PC or if your laptop is completely shattered, they can offer you technical assistance via phone. Besides, rather than trying things on your own, it is wise to let experts do the trick for you as you cannot mess around with your system's settings especially when your laptop experiences the blue screen of death!
