PROBLEM WITH MY WINXP LAPTOP?

A few weeks ago my Windows XP, Advent 7098 stopped working. Every time i tried starting it up it asked me if i wanted to start it in safe mode, with networking etc. When i clicked safe mode it would come up with a load of different codes and stop at one of them, then it would flash with a blue screen for a milisecond. My friend gave me an operating system recovery CD. I put this in and it managed to get my computer to the desktop, but it doens't have anything on it. On the disk it says "for the recovery you will also need the "Drivers and Utilities or ServerStart CD/DVD" My laptop didn't come with any of these disks, it was already installed. I've just tried going on there now and when it gets to the welcome screen i click my name and it says "This copy of Windows must be activated before you can log on, do you want to activate Windows now?" I clicked yes and it said "A problem is preventing Windows from acurately checking the license for this computer. Error Code: 0x80004005.