[bookworm]

Originally Posted by The Soulman

Hi Barbara,
well I eventually managed to access the repair utility, all was going well untill the "Installing devices" part of the repair process and then the dreaded Blue screen of death, upon restarting, the computer did a hard disc scan then restarted the repair process only to crash again at exactly the same point, this loop continued over and over again.

Unfortunately I like a fool had not backed up the drive, however I removed the drive, stuck it in a external enclosure and found all the data / folders, etc to be intact.

I have now installed Windows XP Home
(What the machine came with)
on a brand new drive and activated / updated
Windows, (SP3, etc) I looked at the audio controller in the system / hardware and it stated "No drivers installed for this device".
so okay methinks I'll install the drivers from the disc that originally came with the machine on a brand new install with no software / antivirus, etc, installed and guess what............the dreaded Blue screen of death,
so now I can only think that there is actually some sort of fault on the audio controller itself, what do you think ?
The crash also took my CD ROM drive and the modem out exactly like it has done before, I've managed to re-install these, what are your thoughts on what I have described Barbara ?
Regards,
The Soulman.

The continual loop does lead one to suspect a hardware problem, and as it's always the audio then it must be faulty, I'm not up on notebook external audio, but it might be a path to go down. have a word with the guys at PC TECH help and see if they can throw some light on it. http://www.overclockeddoc.com/Forum/index.php

I'll check as well.