Windows fatal error,lost $410, and need help!

I think I have been shot $410 because I wanted to buy a laptop for cheap and fix any problems(not a laptop genius). Well I have bought a toshiba satellite a0/75 series laptop off ebay for $410. A cracked lcd was suppose to be the problem. I thought changing the lcd would be a good idea for now because i don't want to buy a new laptop yet.It had came today and was like description. It had recovery dvd and then i wanted to delete the previous owners files. OK its formatting and bam the power cut out. It kept happening untill i place the laptop on its side(unplugged) and it worked. Everythings new now, the laptop had to finalize some configurations which it needed to reboot. Upon reboot it had this crazy " Fatal Error: An error has been encountered that prevents Setup from continuing.

Windows is unable to start because the registry could not be updated. To address this problem, please contact your computer manufacturer. Windows must now Shut Down.

Press OK to view the Setup log file. "and now i can get it to start up windows.

Any ideas guys?

 

If you have another laptop HDD,try it on.

 

ok couple things on the a75, as i have one myself...... First off, Those systems overheat very easily and has a system which is called thermal shutdown so if it gets to hot it will auto shutdown, Try Blowing out the Grills with compressed air or a compressor, I prefer around 45 psi to be sure everything is out of the system. Second those system are known to be acceptable to ESD or (electric static discharge) there is a law suit going about this issue, heres the information about it, and you can join it if you like, http://www.a70m30xsettlement.com/
3rd for your windows, sounds eather like bad HD (Bad Clusters) or you have a cruppted windows, happens sometimes when your computer randomly restarts

 

thanks guys for the help, but overdrive is there a way to get this thing running?

 

well for windows there not much stuff you can do unless you kjnow what you are doing. I would take the windows XP disk boot off that, Run the Recovery Console, That will get you into a dos prompt, type "chkdsk /r" without quotes, That will isolate the bad cluster's and fix most of the cruppted files, This will make it so it will be able to boot, now later on you will be running into trouble since this is only a temp solution, Reinstalling the os would be the best idea, I also would drill some holes on the bottom of the computer, Take a look at this Thread
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=93740
, Look at my pictures, I have drilled holes, By this it keep the computer 10c cooler than before.

 

i have tried to run an old xp cd and the recovery dvd but it wont read the disks on startup.

 

Can someone help me on how to do what he said.(Laptop wont read any disk on startuP)