need help baddly

[ponczek]

hey guys im in need of some major help im a college student and something is messing round on my laptop im running windows xp home and i dont no what it is every time i open a document or any program asociated with typing i get the following msg:

SMART UI 32-bits gateway error

can't load SMART Utilities (code 999) error preforming impage operation

i though my printer caused this problem so i un hooked it and it still does it. i also got this msg when i unhooked my printer. am im not sure but i think this problem is causing the computer not to do a system restor and i cant get into the device manager and when i got to control pannel it says theres some error but loads up.

any help in solving the problem would be very very much appreciated as i am in school and need this laptop to work and cant afford to reformat the comp to to assignments on the computer

plz help and thank you for ur time

[LLXX]

Laptop... inpage error....

Failing hard drive.

[ponczek]

so theres no way of fixin this problem laptop is only like 5 months old

[LLXX]

Have you tried chkdsk'ing the drive?

...and even though it's a laptop, it's not designed to be thrown around or handled roughly. That damages the hard drive quickly.

[Takeshi]

so theres no way of fixin this problem laptop is only like 5 months old

It should still have warranty.

PS. The forum likes a more meaningful title than:

need help baddly

Edited August 11, 2006 by Takeshi