Alright, so I was about to play BF2, and wanted to use ventrilo, but the installer wasn't loading. I'd figure I'd simply reboot to go around it hopefully.
Windows takes it's sweet time. 20 minutes later it goes to post and it's loading windows. It boots to a black screen, and my cursor shows up. Which is normal except it stays there forever. As in 25 minutes.
Google has brought me a ton of info, but none of it works for me. I can't reformat. If I did do that, I'd like to have Windows 7 x64 so I could move to x64, and a good big drive to backup to. I don't have that kind of money right now.
Things i've tried:
Safe mode
Safe mode with networking
Last known good configuration
Using repair in the windows vista DVD
system restore to a couple days ago.
taking out memory and switching
flashing cmos
task manager does not come up when I press CTRL + ALT + DEL.
My computer is 100% unusable, unless I use my Ubuntu disk. Im typing this on my mother Netbook, so I'm sorry for some typing mistakes. 10.1 inches : \
Specs if you need to see them:
Q6600 stock
Evga 680i LT SLI mobo
2x2 OCZ reaper 4-4-4-12 DDR2-800
2x640 gb in Software Raid 0. these are currently unplugged
Only drive I have in here is my Seagate 7200.11 500gb. Partitioned to 34.9gb for OS, Drivers, main apps. about 410gb for everything else.
Windows Vista SP2 X86
In my experience, this meant the HDD was dying/dead. Couldn't do anything because it took so long.
:siren: The term used for this is black screen of death nicknamed a KSOD, all of the google fixes do not work, the following is what worked for me. :siren:
What you need to do is boot into safe mode. Start>Run>Msconfig Boot with diagnostic start up. Then reboot normally. This will fuck up a lot of services such as networking and a whole lot of other shit. Go into the services section in control panel under admin tools and turn them all back on one by one. As a side note, sometimes the Logitech web cam service can cause a KSOD.
I can't boot into safe mode though...
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I ran a ubuntu live CD to see if I could fix anything. The drives seem to work fine.
I ran a SMART scanner on hiren's boot cd.
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Well, I'm in Ubuntu now, I made two partitions originally on my main harddrive for such an occasion. I really don't want to lose my OS install, but I guess I have no choice now.
I moved my documents and desktop to my other partition, and I'll reinstall Vista now. I'd install Win7 x64, but I don't have it.
Q: Do you customize Windows? That can happen when WinLogon crashes due to LogonUI crashing due to a typo in DirectUI in AuthUI.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;20482832]I can't boot into safe mode though...
[editline]06:57PM[/editline]
I ran a ubuntu live CD to see if I could fix anything. The drives seem to work fine.
I ran a SMART scanner on hiren's boot cd.
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Well, I'm in Ubuntu now, I made two partitions originally on my main harddrive for such an occasion. I really don't want to lose my OS install, but I guess I have no choice now.
I moved my documents and desktop to my other partition, and I'll reinstall Vista now. I'd install Win7 x64, but I don't have it.[/QUOTE]
Well yeah with a KSOD you can not boot into safe mode, do safe mode with command prompt and type msconfig at the prompt. I meant to say safe mode with command prompt originally. Follow this still:
Msconfig Boot with diagnostic start up. Then reboot normally. This will fuck up a lot of services such as networking and a whole lot of other shit. Go into the services section in control panel under admin tools and turn them all back on one by one. As a side note, sometimes the Logitech web cam service can cause a KSOD.
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