bsod on startup :( Options

[=R6= Raile]

yo guys

so last night my computer decided to bsod on me while it was just sitting at the desktop. Since then, it bsod'd about 5 seconds after loading the desktop each time I booted it. The first time I tried to boot in safe mode, it worked, however, the second time I booted it up, now safe mode won't work either (it gets to a black screen, with a mouse cursor, but just hangs there. even when booting in to safe mode with dos prompt only). So I'm kind of fucked. I've tried removing each ram stick and seeing if any of those are causing the problem. I've tried using the windows boot up disk (i'm using vista btw) to repair windows, do a system restore, and check for memory problems. basically I did every test the windows disk has to offer, and nothing worked. I'm guessing it's gotta be hardware? Though I didn't think it mattered, I pulled out my audio board anyway and tried booting but no change. It's the only thing I think I can unplug and test. All I've got left is the mb, graphics card, and harddrive. Any suggestions on how I find out what the problem is?

Cheers

[=R6= Raile]

monkey you might not believe this..

for some reason typing "c: dir", changed me in to the c: directory. i do not know why.

anyway I'm in. however, on to the next of probably a zillion problems I'm going to go through..

I cannot access the repair directory under c:\Windows\repair

not only can I not see it, but trying to navigate in to it says it does not exist. Is it possibly under a different directory in vista?


UPDATE - googling it I've read somewhere that apparently vista does not have the repair directory! any other suggestions? I'm thinking at some point I should just try to re-install windows over it self. In all honesty, I am going to order a new SSD harddrive and win7 this week so I really just need to get this working as a temporary fix to hold off the next 3 - 5 days