Vista will not boot. At all, please help

kcb

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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 black screen with Microsoft Corporation at the bottom with the green progress bar moving.

I tried to boot into Safe Mode and Last Known Good Configuration and neither work, it hangs when loading crcdisk.sys when I try safe mode.

I tried booting from the install disk with no luck, it hangs in the same point.
I'm about to format the hard drive and start over, but if anybody can help me I would appreciate it.

my specs are:
CPU: Turion MT32
HD: 100GB toshiba, 16MB cache
1.5 GB RAM
video: ATI x700

please help!
 
Jun 27, 2005
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I'm in the same boat. Been on MS tech support for a total of three hours now.

Edit: They mananged to restore me back to XP...

Apparently what they don't tell you in the Vista Upgrade Advisor is that if you are running XP Home and try to install any other version of Vista besides the basic home version you will have severe issues if you just run the upgrade install. You have to do the custom install to make the upgrade. I'm trying that now. Will report back.

IF any of this sounds like kindergrten to you guys, sorry... Noob here.
 

kcb

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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?
 

stash

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Boot off the Vista DVD and do a system restore to before you installed the updates. System restore creates a restore point every time you install updates.
 

kcb

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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 have no idea what this could be from...
 

kcb

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Mar 2, 2007
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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?
 

kcb

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Mar 2, 2007
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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 tomorrow...
 

AVP

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Well I am having more or less the same problems as the op. Upgraded from Home to Business on a full license, though everything worked great for a few weeks. Now this weekend, after trying to upgrade my nvidia video drivers I have not been able to boot to anything but here in safe mode. Checked the event viewer, and I have found this:

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
AsIO
aslm75
prodrv06
spldr
sptd
Wanarpv6

Any suggestions on what to reinstall? it all seems a little bit unclear. At one point I did get an IRQL not less or equal bsod, and one no name bsod but those seem gone now. Also one of the problems pointed towards asus probe and AsmiHwIo and AsmiEnum.dll so I uninstalled that and cleaned it out of the registry. Any help would be appreciated!

*ok it looks like aslm75 is an asus bios driver, I am going to try to reset my bios and see how things have come along. I cannot use the asus update program since it doesnt seem to want to work in vista because of bs_def.dll or whatever that means :) **googles resetting bios
 

kcb

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Mar 2, 2007
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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...
 

chief2punks

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If you've figured out the problem, let me know. Here's what I figured out. I have Vista 32 bit. I added 2 gig RAM for a total of 4 gig, I knew it would only recognize 3.25 gig. Anyway, everything was flying...almost too fast...but when I re-booted it refused to start up even from the DVD. I tried everything and then I removed the extra 2 gig and it booted just fine. I added 1 gig for a total of 3 gig and it wouldn't boot. It runs fine under my original configuration.