Helpppppppp!

[infinitesadness]

I need help! I have an old Sony Vaio laptop that I am trying to figure out what the problem is. For some reason it shutsdown when windows starts to load. I even tried to replace the hard drive but it is still doing the same think. It boots up okay and I was even able to format the hard drive and setup Win 2k but like I said when it is time to load windows it shutsdown. Please give me an idea what possible problems should I look at. Thanks in advance!

 

[killians45]

can you get to safe mode.

 

[infinitesadness]

I can't. Once the "Windows Starting" shows it shutsdown.

 

[Blind_Arrow]

have you upgraded your memory modules?

and what windows came originally with laptop?

have you tried it with other CD, as might be your CD has a fault installing some crucial files.

 

[infinitesadness]

I haven't upgraded my memory and it came orginally with windows 98. I actually tried to install XP in it and it did the same thing. I was able to go through boot with cd and setup with no prblem but when it was time to restart and boot to windows it did the same this. - it shutsdown-

 

[killians45]

try a different battery? also, make sure there are no specific chipset drivers needed. may want to go into bios and disable any cache/shadowing there. It will be slow to load if disabled, but will pinpoint problems.

 

[infinitesadness]

It actually does not have a battery. I am using just the AC adapter. But I'll try diabling the cache. Thanks again! But if it still does the same, you might here from me again.