Windows boots then blue screen message

[beef4me]

Nope, your right Allan, nothing is fixed, but hey I truly had no idea what to do, so thanks again.

PS I am currenty running BITDEFENDER, so far found 19 infected, and 8 suspected, heres hoping. Sean

[smeezekitty]

ADG why are you so insistant on bios flashes?
they can make the whole computer unusable
where you have to replace the motherboard
and you could catch a bios virus

[Allan]

A bios virus? Please.

And for the last time, with today's systems bios flashes are safe. The install utilities make them almost foolproof. The biggest danger is if the user shuts down the system during the upgrade or does something to cancel the upgrade before it is finished. Firmware upgrades were sometimes problematic years ago, but not nowadays.  Please stop telling me not to recommend bios upgrades - I only do so when then situation calls for it and it is the appropriate tactic. Thank you.

[smeezekitty]

i am  always cautios about firmware and bios updates
because i have thermal shutdown problems
i almost had a thermal shutdown when updateing DVD rom firmware (to unlock region code)
sorry for telling you what to do

[beef4me]

Oh my what have I started lol.

Well I run bitdefender and it quarantined 19 viruses, but machine is still coming up with the original blue screen message.

Any advice, you 2 clever peeps

Cheers Sean

[smeezekitty]

Any advice, you 2 clever peeps

LOL
i would say check device manager in safe mode
click view->show hiden devices
look for any with a (!) on it
you may want to reinstall some of the drivers
but you better have some other member reply to that because i dont want to make it worse

[beef4me]

C'mon smeeze, all help is welcomed 

Just so as u know, when I get to safemode a grey box appears saying "windows xp setup cannot run under safe mode"

??

Sean

[Allan]

If you still can't get into safe mode go ahead and borrow an XP CD (same version as you have installed) and try a repair install as I described above. But personally, if your system was that infected I'd just reformat and start from scratch.

[beef4me]

Ok Allan,

Will check to see if I can get my hands on a disk,

what do u mean by reformat & start from scratch??

Cheers

Sean

[smeezekitty]

reformat and start from scratch means reformatting (erasing) the harddisk and reinstalling the os
you will lose all data and programs
what if you ok the gray box that says setup does not run in safemode?

[beef4me]

Hi Smeeze,

Black background SAFE MODE displays, a fews secs later the message appears, click ok and the machine reboots showing IBM CENTRINO page then MS windows XP screen then the blue screen message, then loop de loop loop.

Cheers
Sean