having a huge BLEEPING COMPUTER problem. I had to do a TOTAL RECOVER an am just trying to restore printers files and basics. I WILL NOT BE EMAILING OR POSTING FOR AWHILE. If I am in the middle of a trade with you, I will reconfirm later. Please accept my apologies. THANKS FOR ALL THE TRADES. E

You can post this in the seed exchange or any forums you have been on. I don't think anyone would object. I think in 3 years I've been on this section once so you might have a better chance of catching people on the other threads. So sorry your computer crashed. That is so hard. Mine did that and my husband got me an external hard drive. It plugs in and I save everything on that drive. It saved me the second crash and with all these viruses I can't believe how often it happens to so many people. Heidi

Hi jean_mi_z5, Reports inconclusive to me. It's showing a lot of system file crashes, but those crashes can be caused by 3ed party files / drives causing the Microsoft drivers to crash and I don't see any 3ed party listed. If you're having a lot of blue screens and it appears you are, I strongly recommend you post at the link provided. Under the topic below BSOD, Crashes, Kernel Debugging Here is a link that might be useful: BSOD, Crashes, Kernel Debugging

I agree with Raven here, I would not be taking a Celeron computer in for repair. That might well cost half the price of a new computer. You don't have a friend, neighbour or relative who might loan you their Windows XP CD? Explain to them that you do not need the license number as your license sticker on the side of the computer case is the one you would enter as you install XP. That sticker number is tied to the motherboard in your computer. (I suspect that if you have XP Home then you would need an XP Home CD) Recovery disks are bought at the time of the computer purchase. Or this is more often just a separate partition on your hard drive and the buyer should create a set of recovery disks. This includes all the 'free' extras the computer maker adds on. The XP CD is just that, a copy of Windows XP with nothing added As a side note you may want to suggest to Dad that he creates a set of recovery disks for his machine in case he runs into problems too at some future point.