All your online banking information is kept on the banks' servers, not
on your computer. If you restore the computer to factory condition
(refer to the computer manual or look on the computer mftr.'s tech
support site for how to do this) then all your data will be gone which
is why you want to back up first. If the problem continues after you've
restored to factory condition, then you know for sure it is a hardware
problem which you can't fix yourself. Take the computer back for
replacement.

Data can be retrieved even if you can't boot into Windows (or use
Windows for any length of time) but I'm honestly not sure you have the
computer skills to do it. I don't say that to hurt your feelings in any
way; I'm just being practical. I'll give you the methods below but you
may be better off having a knowledgeable friend (someone who is really
knowledgeable and not just saying he is) or a computer professional do
it for you. Do not use someone from BigComputerStore/GeekSquad; get
recommendations from friends, family, colleagues.

So, here are some things to try to recover your data:

1. Pull the drive and slave it in a computer running a working install
of XP/Vista. Depending on the target drive's characteristics, you may
need a drive adapter; i.e., laptop-to-IDE or a SATA controller card,
etc. A usb/firewire external drive enclosure works very well, too. Use
the working Windows Explorer to copy the data to the rescue system's
hard drive and then burn the data to cd or dvd.

2. Often XP/Vista will not boot with a slaved drive that has a damaged
file system. In that case, boot the target computer with either a Bart's
PE or a Linux live cd such as Knoppix and retrieve the data that way.
Here is general information on using Knoppix for this:

You will need a computer with two cd drives, one of which is a cd/dvd-rw
OR a usb thumb drive with enough capacity to hold your data OR an
external usb/firewire hard drive formatted FAT32 (not NTFS). To get
Knoppix, you need a computer with a fast Internet connection and
third-party burning software. Download the Knoppix .iso and create your
bootable cd. Then boot with it and it will be able to see the Windows
files. If you are using the usb thumb drive or the external hard drive,
right-click on its icon (on the Desktop) to get its properties and
uncheck the box that says "Read Only". Then click on it to open it. Note
that the default mouse action in the window manager used by Knoppix
(KDE) is a single click to open instead of the traditional MS Windows'
double-click. If you want to burn CD/DVDs, use the K3b program.

http://www.knoppix.net
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ - Bart's PE Builder

Malke

You need more RAM .. 512 is barely enough to run Vista.. you need at least 1
GB, 2 preferrably..

RAM is cheap.. you can get 4 GB at TigerDirect.com for $129.99 DDR2 PC-6400
Dual Channel (4x1024 MB dimms) 240 pin

I just bought some from them.. took 4 business days to get here by UPS.

Your graphics card may be built in.. if it is, it will require between 128
to 256 shared memory.. which means the graphics card will try to allocate
memory grom your system.. if it is in use.. then the display adapter will
fail..

Also make sure that your Drivers are updated from either Windows Update or
from your card manufacturer and that the drivers are Vista compliant

I had the same 'Not validated for this computer' message when I treid
to install their most recent driver(released this month) , here's what
I did to get around it, you might want to give it a try, worked like a
charm for me, although I think the actual error might be caused by
Windows frame transpareny, if you know how to turn that off, give that
a try first, if you don't, here's what you need to do it update the
driver (keep in mind I'm running 32 bit and a 82945G chipset, so the
file name for yours may vary, for mine, it was winvista_1573)

extracted winvista_1573.exe, then copied the folder it created, called
'pft878A~tmp' from my temp folder out to my desktop (it's not
necessary to copy it out if you don't want to, just makes it a little
easier to browse to it later)

It will help if you dump your temp folder first, that way you know
what folder to grab, drop it on your desktop, and I recommend stashing
it somewhere afterwards in case you ever need to do this all over
again i.e reformat

update the driver through device manager using the 'browse my
computer' option, then selected 'let me pick from a list' open and
browse to the graphics folder inside the folder you copied from the
temp folder and select the igdlh.inf file, then select open

let the install run, reboot when prompted

after I logged back in, I got the following message

'Windows frame transparency has been turned off' (which is what made
me wonder if that was the culprit all along)

I was then able to double click on the winvista_1573.exe file again
and run successfully this time (just to be sure)

rebooted when prompted

hasn't given me the stopped responding error since

Good Luck  :)

On Feb 11, 12:04 pm, beardsmen <beards...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

A full month now without a single error

"Betty" is gone, you MORON.  She wrote that almost a f***ing year ago.
WAKE UP!
--
Mad Mike

"maromero.1 <maromero1@discussions.microsoft.com>" wrote