Blue Screen & I Can´t Go Into Safe Mode!!

[jsmit]

Hi all,

My computer has gotten a bit screwed up. I´m running vista home premium. On startup i get the blue screen with the information:

STOP: 0X0000C1F5 (OXOOOOOOOO) (OXOOOOOOOO) (OXOOOOOOOO) (OXOOOOOOOO)

I´ve tried to press F8 on startup but nothing happens. I don´t know what to do. I have everything i need backed up on disks so all I´m trying to do at this stage is restore to the factory settings.

I have a legal copy of windows but a disk did not ship with my laptop (SONY VAOI PCG 391M).

What should i do?!?

Thanks,

[jsmit]

Ok nobody answered (!) but I’ll leave the solution i found in case anyone else ends up having this problem. i used the Linux system cd method. For people like myself that aren't familiar with linux don't worry about it, it's not difficult and it works like a dream on those occasions where you're getting a BSOD and F8 and F10 won't work.