Busted Laptop..Please Help!

[omgu8myrice]

okay heres my situation, awhile ago i tried installing windows xp on my old ibm laptop ( it originally had 98). the installation was a failure for some reason, and recently it ried turning it on and obviously there were problems. i cleared the entire harddrive using UBD, and reinstalled xp. everything seemed to be working fine after installtion, but after i restarted the comp, it would automatically restart during the xp loading screen.

now, when i try reinstalling xp AGAIN, it stops in the middle, giving me a blue error screen that says "windows has shutdown to prevent damage to ur system". also when i first start the laptop, during the first IBm screen there are white, snowly lines everywhere, if that means anything.

anyone have any ideas on whats wrong? thanks for any advice.

[minos1067]

it could be a harddrive failure, video driver problem, or really anything else; just installing an os will not have that effect. have you dropped it or anything? you say that it had 98 on it, so that leads me to think that it is a really old notebook with older hardware. my opinion is that the harddrive is screwed. try to do some research and find a program called spinrite, that is a harddrive diagnostic program. sometimes it can be found on utility cds like "hiren's boot cd".

i have an old ibm a22m and it was made for win2k and has alot of probs that were a pain the arse for xp. does it have all the minimum requirements for xp like memory, etc.?

peace!

[Vinny]

Yeah, it could be anything... I'd guess a bad HD but there's no way of saying for sure.

[dafoomie]

Certainly sounds like hardware failure at some level.

[sonicfreak5]

mwhahhahahhahhahahahahhahahahahahahhaha. thats what u get. http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/d/2/4/d245777abca64ece2d5d7ca0d19fddb6.png

[likeaphoenixignition]

Have you tried running in safe mode to see if the computer boots correctly?

Press F8 before and windows screens show up during boot and load safe mode.

[nonggame]

buy a new one ?