HYPERThalamus

POST-POSTSCRIPT SOLUTION There is a workaround for the CODE PURPLE error after all. Check out http://www.billoblog.com/billoblog/?p=152. I only just discovered that it would have worked for me if I'd been looking on the right drive (and used a decent XP bootdisk). Took it to a techie when I didn't need to. Ended up paying NZ$98 for the guy to delete a copy of lines of code

POSTSCRIPT Well I got screwed by the techies. I could have got my hands on an OEM version of XP but didn't want to risk losing any personal files so I took it to the "experts". I'd called previously to see if they could "re-tattoo" the motherboard for me. They had said they could. From what I'd gathered from a bit of on-line research the re-tattooing could be done without needing to re-format the HDD so - since I'd only used the non-destructive system recovery - my files should have come through more or less unscathed. Got a phone call yesterday from the tech (a week after taking the comp

SYSTEM: Compaq Presario S5040AN ABSTRACT: Used the non-destructive System Recovery feature to restore default system files after a run in with malware. Windows Re-install hangs at the splash screen with a CODE PURPLE error message. Is there a work-around? Hello all you fellow CODE PURPLE sufferers and (hopefully) solution-laden experts out there. I've fallen foul of Compaq / HP's "booby trap" through no fault of my own. Here is my tale of woe. About a month after I purchased the system back in 2003 the system was infected by a particularly nasty piece of malware that I couldn't get rid