K heres in the votes are 3 things i can do.

Heres the story:
Computer crashed with some acpi error (my guess the videocard drivers got hooked with something and it did not unhook ) So i can move my harddrive to another computer and remove the drivers and any files that i dont need. Or i can do the same as 1 but not fix it , just move files over and reinstall xp. OR the third choice. Install a linux OS . its been awhile since iv used ubuntu so i might try that.

4: Make a nice dualboot system with on one drive Linux and XP on another.

Copy everything wanted to another hard drive.
Then reinstall windows XP.
Then copy everything again.

So yeah, second choice.

What? If its a videocard driver, uninstall the driver.

I cant even get into windows, be it safemode or anything. and my windows live cd's have gone missing.

Grab a ♥♥♥♥ HDD you don't use, put your current main drive in a different slot, install Linux on ♥♥♥♥ HDD, grab ntfs3g from your packet manager and fix it from there.

I don't think it's the video card though,

acpi is a power management and hardware interfacing system.
I dont think fixing drivers is a option here, you can always fire up a linux live cd,
and copy all data you want to a backup drive.

then you can choose what to install.

Yes, i thought that at first, but then did some google searching and found out its the video drivers.

Well I did a bit of backup, reinstalled and back again with only 9 gig so of my 120 gig C:/ drive used. not..9 gigs left

First reboot i got the same error.. i was just ♥♥♥♥. rebooted and skipped my motherboreds disk selection and seleted what disk to boot from. worked from there. So i guess its a bios thing. But i been updating drivers and apps all this morning.. If you know of any good apps that i should install, toss em down.

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Knew that thing would come in handy.

Did you recently try a bios update ?
if so try again, if not try to update to the newest bios version available.

Damn, only me and one other person want you to go with a Linux OS? I guess this forum doesn't have much experience with Linux...SINCE IT ROCKS ASS! What I would do is backup, reinstall, resize partitions and make a Linux drive.