Ressurect my dead PC, Anyone?

[Vicious Horizon]

Well, As most of you know, i have a laptop, which doesn't run anything (Thanks to Vista) so i get hardly any time on the other laptop which is my mums, which does run stuff. But i have an oldschool PC which at the beginning of last summer crashed (The Vista BETA my dad forced me to use ran out) and i re-installed XP, no i'm not an idiot i did it right, i've done it lots before. But it runs for 1 day, and goes onto "The dreaded loop" where it says windows didn't shut down correctly, if i select anything it looks like its about to work, e.g it has the XP loading screen and it happens again, safe mode has similar results.

[Vicious Horizon]

: o i also remember that I have an ATi graph cards, but i had that installed before, and that after it kept crashing i got a new hard-drive, installed that but it happened again.

[Hutch]

when you install windows XP do you install it with SP2, or are you using the auto updater from microsoft to update it to SP2?

[Vicious Horizon]

Auto-updater. I have to run by all of the updates to get it up to scratch, i try not updating, i try critical only, and all updates. But all have the same result.

[Hutch]

Yeah, dont update to SP2 at all using the auto updater, my PC kept dying after installing SP2 like that for some reason

Get it on a disc or the non microsoft autoupdate version. I couldnt be arsed with SP2 on it anyway as all it gets used for now is an extra harddrive, word processor and something for firefox to run on and have a new PC of my own.

Get SP3 here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=75ed934c-8423-4386-ad98-36b124a720aa&DisplayLang=en as a standalone.

[Vicious Horizon]

Alright cool, As soon as i can manage to get my old monitor back off my dad i'll try it.