[wmhendry]

I have a pretty old laptop. It's a Advent 7086. Running Windows XP. It keeps crashing at start up. I switch it on, it gets to the Windows XP logo and then restarts. I can't load it in safe mode - same thing happens. I select safe mode and it starts the scroll of text, stops half way down and then restarts again! I've checked around the web and it seems that the only way I can fix this is using a Windows XP disk but I don't have it (I got the laptop from a relative and didn't get anything with it.) Is there any way I can fix it without the disk? Or any way I can GET the disk without sending off for it? A download or something.

Help! Please!

[steelersfan32]

What is the last line of text that is displayed when you run safe mode before it restarts? That's probably where the problem is. <removed by Moderator - against rules>

[wmhendry]

the last line of text that appears ends in:

system32/DRIVERS/agpCPQ.sys

No idea what this means.

[Robbinz]

agpCPQ.sys is the cpu to agp controller driver.

If you do I bios upgrade it should fix this.