Multiple BSOD errors, Unknown Cause

got it to load the system restore menu, but now it can't see any restore points, which I know both you and I have made since this whole fiasco started.

I am 95% sure that this is a hardware problem, but I think I will try and reformat the hard drive just to see, thankfully I baked up everything I needed before it got this bad.

Can you think of a better alternative?

no this thing is screwed, it won't even let me reinstall windows, I get a BSOD that says "Bugcode_USB" when it is unpacking the files.

I guess it is time for a new laptop.

I think that the problem was I exposed it to pretty high humidity using it outside at night near a lake. I assumed the inside of this thing stayed at 120F+ most of the time, so I wasn't worried about dew forming inside of it, but I may have been wrong.

Any parting thoughts before I send this thing to the junk heap?

I put in the windows 7 install disk, told it to do a fresh install over the original partition, which was the entire harddrive.

That method got it through installation, but now the new windows won't boot up. It stuck at "starting windows services"

about 1.5 hours... took about 10 minutes last time I did an install... But I"m still waiting.