Computer crashed during TF2, now refuses to start in any mode.

[Bubbus]

Hey there, I was playing TF2 on my Windows XP machine and it crashed with looping sound and black screen. I restarted the computer and it now refuses to start up. (Using my laptop right now!)

In normal or last good configuration, it begins the XP startup and then restarts itself after a split second flash of blue screen, unfortunately so fast that I can't read any info off it for you guys. In safe mode it stops half way through loading drivers, saying "Press ESC to stop loading SPTD.sys", which appears to be a driver for Daemon tools. It then restarts itself regardless of whether I press ESC or not.

Now here's the kicker; in my googling, all the solutions require the Win XP disc, which I don't currently have. (For the inevitable sceptics, this isn't pirate. It's at home after me switching cities to attend my university course.)
Does anyone know of any solutions that I can attempt without the disc, or should I go without my good PC for a while until I can obtain one?

Thanks FP!

[editline]18th October 2010[/editline]

Salvaged my system specs from an old thread, if this helps at all:
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Operating System
MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP2

CPU
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 61 °C
Windsor 90nm Technology

RAM
4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 401MHz 5-5-5-18

Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2N32-SLI DELUXE (Socket AM2 )

Graphics
DELL 2408WFP @ 1920x1200
512MB GeForce 9600 GT (XFX Pine Group) 53 °C

Hard Drives
244.20GB Seagate ST3250310AS (SATA) 31 °C
244.20GB Seagate ST3250310AS (SATA) 29 °C

Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H50L
QVUPQPA KTYNOXAZ452 SCSI CdRom Device

Audio
SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio
[/quote]

[Fycix]

Same thing happened to me with Day of Defeat: Source. I never managed to find the problem, I believe we replaced the PSU and mobo, and reinstalled windows but it didn't fix it. It might be a harddrive failure, as that's the only thing we didn't replace when it happened.

[Murk]

I think that you can recover windows with SP3 update disc?

[url]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2FCDE6CE-B5FB-4488-8C50-FE22559D164E&displaylang=en#QuickDetails[/url]

You could give it a try though I'm not sure it supports it.

[Bubbus]

Downloading it, will try and post back with results.

[editline]18th October 2010[/editline]

Ok, tried booting to that iso burned onto a disk and it didn't work. Just stayed black for a second or two and then returned to normal startup. I take it that it isn't supposed to do that so what did I do wrong?

[editline]18th October 2010[/editline]

Just used a ubuntu live usb to remove the SPTD.sys driver from windows\system32\drivers. It's now in C:\ with a different name. The problem persists, except that safe mode doesn't hang on "ESC to cancel sptd" anymore. It just reboots.

[editline]18th October 2010[/editline]

Found my specs, don't know if this'll help at all but it's worth a pop.

[lavacano]

Do you have your Windows [b]key[/b]?

If yes, grab an untouched WinXP disc of your edition from the internet. Go ahead, we won't look.

Try all the solutions that require disc.

[Bubbus]

Alright, I'll go ahead and get myself that disc. Thanks for the input guys, hearted.