XP problem

[patrick]

i recently put a copy of xp on an old laptop and for the first few days it worked fine everything was running quickly until today i thought it was an over heating problem because it computer would flash a blue screen and then turn off but today the blue screen stayed on long enough for me to read it and it said to restart the computer and run a disk check but i couldn't get to the desktop does anyone know what these mean?

when the computer boots there is a big screen that says DELL then the screen that says the type of cd-rom drive there is then it goes black for a few seconds then this screen comes up i cant get to the desk top anyone know what to do?

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/1821/1000578li0.jpg

[Fatality]

I'm not quite sure but is that the blue screen of death? I have seen that before but dont quite remember what I did. Could've swore I just restarted.

[Panama Red]

This info applies to a Sony latop but if you have the same chipset and onboard sound that may well be the same problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329832/en-us

[patrick]

i turned on my computer today the computer loaded to the desktop i was able to use it for an hour or two, but.....then the blue screen. so i rebooted the computer thinking i could just use it with the blue screen poping up all of the time, but this time a black screen saying that system32 couldnt load so insted of repareing xp i just started from the begining i deleted everything and reinstalled xp so now im back at XP SP1 and now i dont know if i want to update to sp2 because im thinking that its going to do the same thing and then ill have to do the same thing the linke that Panama Red posted didnt really help because it wasnt talking about the drivers i have, but im going to update them all if you want to see which drivers i have you can go to http://support.dell.com/support/down...=us&l=en&s=gen the service tag is Y57N0 i dont know if its the drivers that mess up xp but according to that link that is waht is going on i dont know if that is my problem.

[patrick]

the blue screen is back..... is it possable it could be a problem with my Harddrive?

[Panama Red]

Here's another possibility. You really should upgrade to SP2 also. It's not just a security package but also several fixes to XP. There are about 55 additional updates after that at Windows Update.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/872797/en-us

[patrick]

tried it didnt work...

[trulad]

when the computer boots there is a big screen that says DELL then the screen that says the type of cd-rom drive there is then it goes black for a few seconds then this screen comes up i cant get to the desk top anyone know what to do?

Is it possible that copy of XP is tied to a Dell? Just a thought.
trulad