Vista Boot Problems

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_simon_

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I'm running Home Premium 64bit on the rig in my signature.

The problem I am having is that sometimes after the green progress bar vanishes that Vista stops booting. My NUM Lock key does not light and my monitor goes to sleep. The hard drive access light flashes for a bit then nothing happens.

It took me 3 attempts to get into Vista this morning by having to hard reset. I've unplugged all USB and PS/2 devices but it's made no difference. I've got the latest BIOS firmware for my motherboard as well. Vista is fully updated including SP1.

This is driving me nuts, HELP!
 
I should mention that this occurred from day 1 on a fresh install even before all the updates. Not sure how a defrag would help but I'll do it anyway.
 
don't use vista use xp it's l33t :P
no rly umm try putting a different HD that might be the problem or your CPU fan is jammed with dust or something inspect everything
 
If you have a full installation disk boot from it and go into the repair tools section instead clicking on the install now. You'll find that on the lower portion of the screen. Once the next screen comes up use the automatic repair startup option to see if that will correct the problem.

The other option is to boot up in safe mode to remove anything just put on besides SP1 like a device driver update or using the system restore option.
 
_simon_ said:
I'm running Home Premium 64bit on the rig in my signature.

The problem I am having is that sometimes after the green progress bar vanishes that Vista stops booting. My NUM Lock key does not light and my monitor goes to sleep. The hard drive access light flashes for a bit then nothing happens.

It took me 3 attempts to get into Vista this morning by having to hard reset. I've unplugged all USB and PS/2 devices but it's made no difference. I've got the latest BIOS firmware for my motherboard as well. Vista is fully updated including SP1.

This is driving me nuts, HELP!
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Get an XP boot disk, boot to the recovery console and at the prompt, type in chkdsk c: /r

It will more than likely tell you that it can't find autochk.exe and ask you to type in the path. The path is {cd drive letter}\i386 eg d:\i386
 
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
111680 file records processed.

179 large file records processed.

0 bad file records processed.

0 EA records processed.

44 reparse records processed.

149520 index entries processed.

0 unindexed files processed.

111680 security descriptors processed.

Cleaning up 1753 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 1753 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 1753 unused security descriptors.
18921 data files processed.

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
33875968 USN bytes processed.

Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
111664 files processed.

File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
25426753 free clusters processed.

Free space verification is complete.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

160833535 KB total disk space.
58851992 KB in 83413 files.
54600 KB in 18922 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
219927 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
101707016 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
40208383 total allocation units on disk.
25426754 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
40 b4 01 00 cb 8f 01 00 54 d3 02 00 00 00 00 00 @.......T.......
38 07 00 00 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 8...,...........
e0 64 ad 77 00 00 00 00 50 23 26 ff 00 00 00 00 .d.w....P#&.....

Windows has finished checking your disk.
 
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