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My pc just chose tonight to stop booting windows xp. Ive been getting the occasional blue screen of death on booting xp for a while and now it doesnt want to work at all.

I'm online in windows 98 - however, my e mail prog, Thunderbird, simply doesnt want to work. Ive been having a lot of trouble with it in xp.....so, Adam, old buddy, old pal, expect a phone call shortly, sorry mate.

Im praying I wont need a complete reformat of my d drive - its not backed up and theres sooooooo much that needs backing up...grrr...

I keep promising myself I will refuse to support Windows on any machine - perhaps that should be my new years resolution!

Hard to diagnose or suggest anything without seeing the machine, so I'll have to take a look at it. The eternal questions of 'what firewall', 'what anti-virus' and 'do you do your Windows Updates' all come to mind, though. Windows really is a nightmare to maintain and out on the Internet everything is out to get it. Of course it may just be normal Windows instability in this case rather than anything malicious...

<smug mode> You should always back up your files...never catch ME making such a silly mistake. </smug mode>


IT'S NEARLY CHRISTMAS <bouncebouncebounce>

Would help if you could tell us what was on the Blue Screen Of Death. It ought to tell you the failing DLL or VXD somewhere at the top. Just a hunch though, you haven't updated your system with any of the new 64 bit drivers by accident?

adam popped around and installed a 30 day windows xp onto the hd so i can back up the hard drives - then its reformat time and reinstal that cracked/corporate xp a certain someone gave us and a copy of 98 so I can still do music etc.

Microsoft Works

The ultimate oxymoron...

Oxymoron....isn't that another word for an Irish welder?


I'll get my coat.....

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