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I an trying to fix a friends Vista laptop. It is stuck in a BSOD/reboot loop. I found the following article on how to repair a similar issue in XP.
http://www.digitalwebcast.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=8658-0
Anyone here know if this will work on ...
Started by CruelSun on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Bad drivers and hardware....
How far do you get in the boot process? Can you enter the BIOS? Can you boot into safe mode/use VESA drivers? This can be caused by numerous things .
We're going to need more details to make accurate assumptions as to what's going on .
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Hi, I apologise if I'm a litre vague and can give more info if needed.
My vista machine has been working fine until today when I tried booting it. Vista loads showing the loading bar then goes to a black screen with the cursor on which you can move. It...
Started by Joomaz on
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Hit it with a hard drive repair utility.
Sounds like something bad happened to your hard drive.
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I'm in a bit of a trouble after trying to apply Vista SP2 on a dual-boot (GRUB, Windows Vista 32 bits and Linux OpenSUSE 11.1 x64). Here is the history:
SP2 would fail to install at the last stage (after rebooting), by searching I assumed it was due to...
Started by RedGlyph on
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Thanks for helping out!.
Apparently it messed up explanations on MBR, Vista changes and so on can be found here .
In my second edit, a side-effect of using the Vista DVD to restore the MBR.
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My friend asked me to look at her Acer Aspire laptop with Vista Home Premium as it is no longer playing DVDs. I found that Windows Media Player would not launch. I found this thread , which contained a number of suggestions, none of which solved the problem...
Started by rpm1200 on
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Is this a 64bit version of Vista or 32bit?
You can uninstall Windows media player and then run.
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Hi guys, I'm trying to repair my brother's vista install, it just BSOD's on boot (even safe mode) and there is no launch startup repair option in the boot menu for vista. So we've got a vista disc, normally you boot from it, select language, and click...
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He likes vista so much).
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Vista Startup Repair Endless Loop by Heroes on Wed 25 Jan 2012, 1:57 pm
I'm sure someone has seen this before. I get an endless loop and don't have a hard Vista repair disc. Any suggestions or is the computer toast? Thanks in advance.
Heroes
Rookie Surfer...
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Operating System : xp Re: Vista Startup Repair Endless Loop by Dean Fry on Thu 26 Jan 2012, 1:28 pm
I am
Operating System :....
Re: Vista Startup Repair Endless Loop by Jan2011 on Thu 26 Jan 2012, 10:56 am
yup - it happens.
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So my vista install is hosed and my original disk loads the startup repair but finds nothing wrong. I am wondering, the original install was Vista (64 Prem) , then I did the Sp1 update and continued receiving updates though I never did a full SP2.
I'm...
Started by stuartambient on
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Repair Install For Vista [11]=Performance....
Repair Install For Vista [11, etc.
Welcome
You must repair with a DVD that is as current as your OS.
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I seem to recall seeing some where in Vista Restore or System restore if theirs such a thing a list of choices to fix vista and among them was a repair option and and another one for an OS overlay that might fix problems.
Does that ring a bell and can...
Started by Verylost on
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Aren t it their is a repair and overlay option in vista HP looking for that but so far haven t found://forums.techguy.org/smartsearc...repair+options No those aren t it their is a repair and overlay option in vista ....
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If dual booting Windows & Linux, and also use GRUB, if you remove the Linux partition(s) you probably can no longer boot Windows. While this is very easy to fix if the Windows operating system is XP or earlier, it is a bit more complicated (but still ...
Started by tturrisi on
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Ran three bootrecWhat if I don't have a....
Start repair command on the Vista DVD simply did a checkdisk and
did not attempt to restore the boot Vista Recovery CD, booted off it as above and selected repair and command prompt.
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1. When I go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Performance Information and Tools and click "Rate this computer," it crashes before it's done.
2. Desktop Window Manager Sessions Manager is disabled, not running, and the option to start it is greyed...
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This board has become really quiet,especially on the weekends run the win7 repair ,either from the dvd-repair-pending-requires-reboot-complete-2.html Last edited by valzi; 23 Hours Ago at 5:33 pm a great job ,ill have to remember that running....
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