Hi,

In a nut shell.

Was on net, blue screen came up. Couldn't do anything, panicked (without writing the info down) and restarted laptop manually.

Step 1/ Restarted and after the first 'Loading XP Home' screen, the blue screen flick on for 0.1sec and then restarts on it's own.

Step 2/ Put in the original recovery disk (part 1 of 3) crashed after 64% on disk 1

Step 3/ Restarted - same as Step 2

Step 4/ Restarted again, this time no hard disk found

Step 5/ After 15mins switch off - it completed disk 1 and then crashed on disk 2 3% complete

Help.....please.

Cheers

Twist

What is the exact Vaio model?

Do you have the manual? Any clues there as to running or troubleshooting the Recovery Disks?

http://esupport.sony.com/perl/select...CS&PRODTYPE=24

Ok, My model number doesn't seem to exist!! But to update you.

I formatted the laptop, reinstalled XP - and it booted 100%

Then 15mins after running, the blue screen came back

KERNAL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR!!!!!

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What does that mean?

Was this the exact error?

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q315266

Yes,

Althought it's too techinical...(for me anyway)

Any chance you could explain it?

By the way, considering I don't have a new boot disk - how can I get one?

Just had a thought. With my laptop being too slow (normally) running XP and this problem being a windows XP problem. Could I get away with installing Win98 and running from that?

Just a thought..

With that error it is either a boot virus: very rare:

Or a hardware problem. I see Vaio having alot of issues with bad RAM.

I also see boot issue that a BIOS upgrade might fix.

To get details on your laptop we really need to know the model #. Is it not on the bottom label?

http://esupport.sony.com/perl/select...CS&PRODTYPE=24

Do you know how to access the RAM?

As to your 98 question look here for a few ideas:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...574095bab08783

Also bootdisks here:

http://www.bootdisk.com/

Model Number PCG-FX804

I loaded win98 last night, and it crashed with in 5 minutes of using it. I'm wondering whether it is the RAM. It annoying that the computer can't tell me exactly what it is.

Page 95 & on shows how to access the RAM:

ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/pub/Manuals/...FX800_H_UK.pdf

From other posts that I've read they suggest that if you have 2 sticks to remove 1 & try again.
If no luck then try the other alone.
If you only have 1 to begin with then a new stick might be neccessary.

Just for Example:
http://www.memoryx.net/sonvapcmem158.html



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How can I check that it is the RAM. Because it loaded XP ok, then within 15mins Blue Screen came back and now it will to start up.

I can use an old MS-DOS prompt disk to get A:/Format C:

Is there a command to check. Sorry, I'm not too bright on this subject.

Because if it is the memory, surely it would not allow me to start up my laptop