So I've been trying to get my roommate's computer to operate properly. It had been rebooting periodically at odd intervals. Sometimes it was relatively stable.

I downloaded/ran a virus checker which got rid of a few things. I also went to Windows Update, installed the latest service pack (for windows 2000) and got about halfway through the other installations when ... his computer rebooted. Argh!

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Now I can't even get into Windows. I myself don't run windows 2000 and as far as we can tell, my roommate doesn't have any kind of bootable disk for his computer at all. (argh!) I get one of two stop errors on startup: 0x0000001E (KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) or 0x000000A5 (bios not ACPI compliant).

At this point I'm about to suggest he just get a new OS and reinstall everything, in the hopes that will actually work, or at least work long enough to correct any bios problem. I figured I'd at least poke around a bit online first to see if there were any other options.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

guess I can't edit here..

I just wanted to add that what he's running is actually Windows 2000 Professional, if that makes a difference.

Hello and welcome to Techspot.

If your room-mate doesn`t have any kind of bootable disk you may well be correct in suggesting a new OS especially if you can`t boot into safe mode.

May I also suggest that you take a look at the following thread to see if there`s anything that might help you. www.techspot.com/vb/topic8356.html

Regards Howard
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