Dying Laptop - please help!!

gerturdeanna

Hi all

I'm back again!!

You always give good advice and I need some help please!
My laptop is dying I think!!

I'm currently having to use FF (which is running really slow and not responding a lot!!) as IE won't open at all!
I have got IE7 and Windows Vista.

When I tried to turn on the laptop this morning, IE wasn't working. It started up but then said that there was a problem with a catalyst something or other and now it won't open at all!! The laptop shut itself down and when I tried to reboot, it ran a disk scan and repaired some stuff. I'm currently running a full scan and hopeing its something repairable!!

Is there anything else I can do?!?!

Thanks

ktuludays

it sounds like you need to reinstall ie. use ff to dowlnoad it again and try a re-install.

or alternatively bin ie and just use ff or google chrome.

alexmole

Catalyst is normally ATI Graphics cards

The least wasting time option to me would be copy off data and out with the restore disks and start again. If it is a big brand eg dell you should be able to start it from the Diagnostic CD and check all the hardware, but get your data off first!

gerturdeanna

Laptop died! Cannot boot it up at all! Boohoo!

I've been given a PC tower which has nothing on it as it was from my husbands work. They used it through the work server so its got no Windows on or anything. Would I just need to be a Windows disk and Anti-Virus etc to be able to use that?

Thanks
Jane