Your laptop is not toast. As long as the problems you where having where software related, and not hardware related, all you have to do it install the current drivers for your hardware. If you go to the manufactures web site for your laptop, most of them have a support button where you can search for your model number of the laptop. It should have all the drivers you will need. If you give us the model of your laptop, where can post a link right to the download page.