do you know what the update was? did you try going into device
manager and doing a driver rollback? (and or a system restore?)

this is extremely painful to read and has to be much worse for you,
and I admire you patience.

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 19:26:32 -0500, coljohnhannibalsmith
<coljohnhannibalsmith.2zhzs2@no-mx.forums.net> wrote:
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>During all of this I was still connected to the Internet
>and one of my applications installed an update. I was persuaded to
>restart, which I did, with the SD Card still inserted. When Windows
>tried to launch the Desktop the system Blue Screened. I then removed
>the SD Card and Cold Booted. I started Windows normally, then
>reinserted the SD Card after Windows had completely loaded the Desktop.
>A dialog Box popped up stating that my HD Soft Conn Modem had stopped
>working; but I closed it and persevered. I was prompted to format the
>SD card and when I clicked "OK" another Blue Screen.[/color]
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