Acer Aspire 5050 Notebook "laptop seems stuck installing updates" Questions

stuck on this.although norton detected a danger and i removed it it happened.seems like a virus?anyway my problem after this is than i dont have an option for wireless connection (the button stays off

...Stuck" on... I recently restored the above machine from the supplied bakup CD's, reinstalled all of my software, and the Windows patches from MS Update. The machine was giving the performance I would ...

seems the Bluetooth isn't working either even though I didn't have any issues installing the drivers. That may be a hardware issue. I don't use the Bluetooth anyway but thought the info may be helpful

...laptop reboots itself after this screen and seems to be stuck in this re-boot. acer screen, reboot pattern. I thought that maybe the hard drive wasnt connected properly but tried to re-install that ...

...laptop, jolting, and suddenly moving any computer can cause internal components to play up or become "volitile". Hard drives when they "go rogue" can cause this problem. In order to confirm this, get ...

...seems stuck at 129 of the 172 updates. Its been hours now and i still cannot shut it down, like its stuck. leave it alone, it will install several hundred more updates over the next day or two...it ...

...Seems like M$ update program detects your OS as XP and tries to install the SP3 for XP. VISTA only has SP1 released. Its currently stuck in a loop that it doesn't know what to do. Restart your laptop ...

...LAPTOP WENT OFF DURING UPDATES NOW IT WONT FINISH LOADING, it comes up update 3 of 3 then restarts and says same again keeps doing it not letting me in to lap top anymore seems stuck on updates Hold ...

...laptop. Everything looked OK when I ran it the first time, but when I had to reboot the system I now am stuck at the Configuring updates screen. I've tried every type of reboot with every type safe ...

seems to have no stuck keys. I tried reflashing the bios update, but the symptoms remain the same. What should I do? Did Toshiba give us a bad BIOS image? Thanks. Any help would be much appreciated! I