ummm guys...help

[Gateway_gtxxxxx]

You don't by any chance get a message coming up saying "will shut down in 60 seconds", or something do you?

I'm wondering if you've contracted the ever so old Blaster worm.

If you do, and it is this, your anti-virus and firewall protection isn't doing its job correctly, and after sorting this, I would look somewhere else for it.

no it doesnt so im just going to have to reformat it, but i have one more question, my uncle has a windows xp professional disk with key legally lol, but he upgraded to vista a while ago, i was wondering can i use that?

 

[freestyler105]

no it doesnt so im just going to have to reformat it, but i have one more question, my uncle has a windows xp professional disk with key legally lol, but he upgraded to vista a while ago, i was wondering can i use that?

Yeah, you should definitely be able to.

 

[Rudster8161]

yerp we have activated our cd key 25-30+ times, literally.

 

[dude_se]

so all these problems have been happening on vista.
no suprise there
you can either re install xp or vista, your choice. just make sure the computer has a good antivirus and stuff