<p>Ever since I have had this problem, people at my school have referred to my problem as the blue screen of death. I have an IBM thinkpad and whenever I boot up the computer, it starts windows and then quickly turns to the a blue screen with words on it. However, I can't read the screen fast enough to see what the problem is. It runs on Microsoft XP, which I, perhaps, think is the problem. After it turns to the blue screen, the computer shuts down fast. I've run Symantec on the computer and it says that it doesn't have any viruses. What do you guys think I could do to fix <em>the</em> blue screen of death. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. Sseeing as how we are talking to Gods on CC, I would be quite baffled if one out there doesn't know how to fix this innocent, but deadly problem of mine.</p>
<p>i had this problem too... <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;228753%5B/url%5D">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;228753</a></p>
<p>Just format</p>
<p>^What he said^</p>
<p>I wouldn't even bother trying to get windows to start toying with it, a hard reformat should fix it. You have nothing to lose, as it seems your pc is nonfunctional at the moment anyway.</p>
<p><a href="http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=...=RMVP#appliesto%5B/url%5D">http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=...=RMVP#appliesto</a> - this is exactly my problem, but it doesnt have anything to do with the Creative Labs SoundBlaster joystick from Device Manager like the website says. haha - i've never had that on the computer. Could it be something else?</p>