csweatherston
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Registered: 16th Jan 06
Location: Devon
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erm, i just formatted my laptop and after re-installing xp (home edition) it was running lovely.
but then after it did all the microsft downloads its packed up 
it starts up, goes straight into scandisc, then to a blank screen, then asks if i want normal of safe mode.
then a blue screes flashes up (too quickly to read) and it restarts
it wont enter safe mode, normal mode or anything now
any ideas?
oh, its an ibm thinkpad r40 if this helps
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Wrighty
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Registered: 28th Feb 04
Location: Howden
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rebuild it again..
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willay
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Did you download some of the reccomended drivers from Microsoft?
Did you have Anti Virus installed?
Was the Laptop firewalled/behind a router before you connected it to the Internet?
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
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You got the blue screen of death 
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Liam
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Registered: 19th Jan 06
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
You got the blue screen of death
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csweatherston
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
Did you download some of the reccomended drivers from Microsoft?
Did you have Anti Virus installed?
Was the Laptop firewalled/behind a router before you connected it to the Internet?
yep, yep and no
is this bad?
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mjw_2k2
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easiest method would be to reinstall xp
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jay kay
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Registered: 22nd Jan 06
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yup as sed just reinstall xp will work then download the updates yourself. Has happened to me it was the Direct x update that did it.
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