Think I killed my laptop

daithimac

I made a huge mistake and tried to install alachol 120 onto my new laptop. When I did a message came up saying that it was installing new drivers. Then It crashed and I got the Blue screen of death. when I restart it it crashes for the same reason again and again and again. I try to get the driver to stop installing and I've tried to remove alachol 120 but I don't have enough time before It crashes. My OS is Vista Home premium.

Please can someone help me!

SuperSean11

Go back to the shop and say its not working

daithimac

The shop is radioshack in cape cod USA. When I say new I mean about 2 months old.

Loftus88

If you still have the vista discs why don't you just back-up then try a clean install?

dingding

Or try a safe boot, I think you press F8 while booting.

daithimac

Thanks for your replies. I don't have the disks. safe boot crashes before I get to the password screen. I'm downloading ubuntu now to see if I can get to work. Damm you to hell vista home premium

Ghost Train

if its a dual core might try disabling one of the cores in the bios, might let you get into windows

daithimac

It is dual core. How do I do that?

Tom Dunne

Try a system restore.

Moved from Laptops, more of a Windows problem.

Ghost Train

daithimac wrote:

It is dual core. How do I do that?

usually by pressing one of the function keys during boot, depends on the type of laptop

in the bios menu you might find an option to choose between multicore or single core operation

daithimac

Thanks for your help everyone.
I managed to get it fixed by going into the bios and starting in restore mode. this gave me about 30 seconds before crash instead of the usual five. then I went to the device manager and disabled the plug and play bios extension and removed alchol.