can't boot from anything...

[PortriatePainter]

I can't boot my Toshiba lap top...at start up I get a blue screen that says something about a bad BIOS...I can't boot from my XP install disk from my D/D...I can't mount from a USB hard drive that has XP system loaded...I can't boot in safe mode...I can't boot from the "after bios screen" choices...

I'm dead in the water...

I need help...

I'm sorry if I am starting to may threads...I don't know how else to ask questions...I'm really trying to figure out how this site works...

Jim

 

[Hughv]

What is the exact error message?
Were you doing anything relating to the BIOS before this happened?

 

[PortriatePainter]

I was trying to install Vista from a disk that I got with another computer...ya...I know...stupid stupid stupid...

"The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please contact your system vendor for an updated BIOS."

"STOP: 0x000000AS (0x00000011,ox00000007,0xFFD0D010,0x0100000E)"

thanks for your intrest and hopefully help...Jim

 

[PortriatePainter]

is there any way I might be able to access my lap tops hard drive through my desk top computer...

 

[PortriatePainter]

all it did was get stickey on every thing...