Recent content by kcb

i've reset my bios to the two previous versions to no avail. I dont know what to do next... I'm going to think about it... I am hesitant to blame Vista, but I cant think of what the problem could be...

i've had the same problem for a week. i posted here and got nothing, googled and got nothing... i cant even boot from teh Vista DVD. I've tried just about everything... If you find anything, please help me out!!

yeah, i've done that a few times, I'm looking for older versions of my bios now. It's an MSI-1029 notebook, I'm using bios 2.7, I flashed to 2.5 with the same problem, now I'm looking for 2.3. Thanks for the help so far guys, I'm going to try a little more tonight before starting over...

I'm leaning towards a hardware problem, too, but its still not making any sense... No overclock, Memtest doesnt come up with anything, but I've tried booting with one or the other of my sticks of RAM. Possibly the CPU is overheating?

I can't even boot off the DVD... I've even disabled booting from the hard drive at all to try to boot from the DVD and it just gets to the same point, where there is a black screen with the green animated progress bar at the bottom. I've left it for an hour or so before shutting down again...

I was doing the upgrade version from XP home, but did it with the custom install, same problem. bump for the afternoon crew... anybody have any ideas?

This is a last resort, I've searched the forums and all over the internet to no avail. I installed Vista x64 a few weeks ago on my notebook and everything was working fine. I downloaded some updates for Vista x64 from microsoft and re-booted and everything fell apart. It would hang at the...