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Alright so I bought a firepod firewire mixer so i can record onto the computer. great so it worked the first night i got it and i was happy so the next day went i went to record again the mixer claimed to be in sync with the cubase recording software and i couldnt get it to record anything and so i reread all the instructions and did the best i could to fix it for 2-3 hours... then i uninstalled the drivers for the mixer because i was running out of options but when i went to reinstall the setup got messed up and froze my computer. i went into control panel to uninstall the program and it wouldnt let me and then the screen went blue a few times but basically now my computer freezes at startup after it asks me if i want to start in safe mode, regular mode, etc etc. in safe mode i couldnt uninstall and it froze up.

my guesses are the computer is done. the hard drive at least.

i need a laptop now or maybe a desktop (just the box) for around $500 that has a firewire input (for laptop - desktop I have a PCI card)

computer is a pentium 4 - 256 ram - 40 gb hdd - windows XP
it is a brand new computer - got it from my grandpa

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