Ameecher: oh balls
Ameecher: turn off the laptop for installation of drivers to take effect and it won't restart
Ameecher: it's dead!
shinaku: Sounds like a buffer overrun the UXL, happens from time to time when you install kernel based modular device driver sub systems
shinaku: I'm assuming this is XP or Vista, yeah?
Ameecher: XP yes
• shinaku nods
Ameecher: and the way round this is?
shinaku: What you want to do is hold it upside down and shake it SOFTLY
Ameecher: you're shitting me
shinaku: the problem is that most laptops have power saving shit
shinaku: which hold drivers in ram
shinaku: if you shake it softly you'll disconnect/reconnect a pin or two on the ram
shinaku: which will cause it to do an error check
Ameecher: holy cow
Ameecher: that actually worked
shinaku: :]
Ameecher: crikey :D
Ameecher: cheers!
shinaku: np
Ameecher: excellent all now works! :D