G50V-A1 won't load Vista after BSoD

Right. I run the G50V-A1 with Windows Vista Home Premium (x64) on the standard configuration.

I have my HDDs striped in RAID0 (2x250GB).

I had been recently deleting my downloads folder and any leftover torrent files when I decided to begin uninstalling unused program games etc.

The first program I had chosen to uninstall (Supreme Commander) it slowed the computer down immensely whilst merely loading the uninstaller.

When the installer finally loaded it went immediately to a BSoD which I could not get details of because the computer reset soon after it appeared.

I tried to reboot the computer but after the POST is completed and it's time for the OS to boot, it will well, not hang up. The underline cursor will flash and just sit there not beginning to load Vista. I have reset BIOS defaults but there's no reaction. It is incapable of booting into Safe Mode since I don't think it can load the OS (I say this because I've had something similar before where Cannot find OS will show up if it cannot find the OS IE: when you try to boot a RAID0 configuration without RAID activated in the BIOS).

I would like to NOT FORMAT anything since I have very important work on the HDDs and I can't find the recovery disk at the moment. Also, everything is on the same partition (I regret this now).

I have BIOS 209 and for some reason it allowed ExpressGate to work albeit without any functionality (UI would show up but no programs would load). Now after the BSoD it won't load at all.

Can anyone help?

 

well if you have another computer you can burn a disc from

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...dont-have-one/

 

You might be able to recover your MBR and get back in, sounds like your boot record could be shot. Check this out:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

 

Link doesn't work. Trying to fix MBR. Just need to find recovery disk...

 

I think this is the link that the above poster attempted to paste

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-make-a-windows-vista-repair-disk-if-you-dont-have-one/

 

Darn. Internet is capped. Going to have to leave this download overnight.

I would like help in alternative ways to fix the MBR since the Asus Recovery Disks I found are hellbent on installing a clean partition of Vista :\.

I have an OEM Vista Premium disk, however, it is x86 and won't recognise my x64 OS. >.<

More suggestions please? You have all been very helpful.

 

yah thats the link I was trying to post

 

Yeah that's why I bothered pasting in that broken link again, chipmoney has obv thought this thru too, cause the only way to do that is with a retail vista disc, or some sort of custom image, like they've got on howtogeek.com or whatever. A 32 bit disc won't work, and the recovery process will just wipe you out to factory settings. You'd need a 64 bit vista disc that is a retail or non-recovery one if you can't download that image fast enough.

 

Oops. Internet too slow since downloading image. Tried /fixMBR on the 32-BIT DISK. Now it comes up with 'Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key' when I try to boot off HDD now. /fixmbr worked but /fixboot did not.

I guess I'll have to use the recovery disk I am currently downloading or does this message spell out a format?

 

What's your setup? If you're not RAIDed are you using your second disk for data? Cause you can choose to restore to the first partition only if that is the case. Otherwise you might want to try and make a livedisc and move your data off the system drive. Because your first partition is going to get blown out with the restore.

 

No. I RAID0'd it. Regretted it after I filled it up with my all my stuff and the more. Data is intact there I can see with the Ubuntu Live Disk. 8 hours until download of the x64 recovery disk is complete. If I use the recovery functions on that, will that allow me to boot into Vista?

EDITED

 

Recovery functions on the ubuntu cd? Those are for recovering ubuntu... if your MBR was corrupted and there was no way to fix it, you could replace it with GRUB, but you already tried fixmbr... somehow your windows files have become corrupted, so you need to move your data off of that C: drive and onto another disk, and prepare to format...

 

...what? No.

Ok. I'm using Ubuntu to run Linux and this atm and plan to use the Ubuntu live disk for nothing more than that. I don't think my files are corrupted, there is nothing there to suggest that. The only reason the recovery console on the Vista OEM disk didn't work was because I couldn't find the appropriate driver for the disk to recognise my HDD properly. I can access the files on the HDD using the file finder built into the console. I've looked at the GRUB bootloader and I don't think I can install without installing Ubuntu.

 

ARRRGHHH I misread you before, you DID RAID your drives. OK, so ... do you have a USB drive? You can use it to load the RAID driver inf file and try the recovery mode again

Either that or move your data off the drives and blast away

 

hmm. Where can this driver be found? I don't have a removable disk (I lost the thing...it's too small ) but I can burn to an optical disk.

As I have said, blasting away would be an absolute last resort. In the same way that I go out tomorrow and buy the retail version of Vista simply to get the recovery functions. But I am downloading the recovery portion of that disk now as we speak. However, that is still 8 hours away so any form of help is still appreciated.

tl;dr: Need Asus Raid driver as an inf.

 

Uhg. that is a hard one to find, it's buried on intel's site. It says not to use it for vista because the generic driver should take over, but obviously that isn't happening for you. Also you can try manually loading the generic microsoft ICH8 driver since it works for the ICH9 too... Technically these drivers are for x64 and server 2003, you may have no luck with this but it's worth a shot:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror.intel.com/17060/eng/f6flpy6486.zip&agr=&ProductID=2101&DwnldId=17060&strOSs=&OSFullName=&lang=eng

Edit:

If that doesn't work your best bet is to try the recovery disk. Or you can get really tricky and make a BartPE image with your ASUS recovery disc.. that would let you have a full windows environment to try and manually repair your windows installation by extracting the needed files out of the windows CABs. I've done that on servers where blasting away is not an option. You create a bartpe disc from your real windows disc, and then basically it's like a windows live CD.

 

Can you explain how to do that please?

EDIT: disregard that. Googled it . Will try recovery disk now.

 

still awaiting x64 recovery disk to download. x86 recovery options will not work.

anyone else able to offer an insight into what happened?

EDIT:
OK. Recovery SHOULD work but it cannot find the OS in question for some unknown reason. It shows the HDD's when it asks me to look for a driver (more on this later) and it will allow you to move to the recovery console, but since it cannot find the OS it is extremely limited in what it can do.

Now the drivers. I have them. The Intel legacy drivers should work but they don't. This is where it gets odd; the RAID drivers will only be accepted when m HDDs are in AHCI and the AHCI drivers will only work when I have my drivers striped in RAID0. It's really confusing and it still means my OS is nowhere to be found by the recovery console.

It might just be the perfect time to sample that Windows 7 Beta .

Nevertheless, it doesn't stop this problem from annoying me greatly.

Any help is still appreciated.

 

Managed to fix the problem. AHCI drivers wouldn't make the OS visible but after clicking next and the Startup Repair (first option) it worked. It didn't do so before however, since last time this was done (without AHCI drivers & 64-bit Recovery) the Repair hung and wouldn't complete after 1 hour.

Thanks for all your help and +1 rep for not having me wipe my disks . (Though I am out of CD-R's now )

 

I have slightly different problem:
When i add my WD 320GB external USB drive or My Kingston USB Flash 4GB Migo to any usb port or Esata drive WD3200BEVT to esata port and restart windows, after Republic Of Gamers logo i get following message:
[Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key]
Then i remove all drives physically and after 2 reboots i again can boot my windowses.
Can somebody help with this?

 

Yes, it's a bug in the BIOS. I've posted about this before.

 

Will latest BIOS update fix my issue?
On Asus G50V BIOS descriptions i can't find that this error is fixed

 

No, there is no revised BIOS that fixes it as of now... the only way around the error is to keep eSATA unplugged until after you have booted.

 

Thanks a lot! This saved my move to another bios version
As i know if i have RAID0, then i have to create backup of all data.
Same error happens if i attach only USB or both USB and Esata simultaneously.