v2s: Cannot boot anymore - need advice

My brand new V2s is stuck in a boot cycle. It'll boot, start loading Vista and reboots itself. Next time around it shows the windows boot menu with the "launch startup repair" or "start windows normally". Selecting Start Windows Normally makes the laptop reboot. Selecting Launch Startup Repar results in brief HD activity and then I get the same menu back.

This is the second time I'm stuck here. The first time I used the recovery CD to re-install the system. But after a forced reboot (system didn't come out of sleep correctly) I got this. The other time I got this after a bluescreen of the NDIS driver.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this without using the recovery CD option again?

Thanks!

 

I don't see another option besides recovery...

Try doing a clean install, by not inserting the drivers and apps CD when the recovery process asks for it, and installing the latest versions of the drivers from support.asus.com manually, afterwards. Hopefully, that will get rid of those bad forced reboots.

Edit: actually you could also try booting in safe mode (F8 at the Windows progress bar) and then restoring to a point previous to when things went wrong, using the System Restore utility.

 

Safe mode doesn't work either, same issue. The laptop simply reboots itself right after selecting safe mode

I used a full CD of Vista Business and used that to repair my install. It really was messed up. After 3 repair attempts it finally did boot again, yeah! Unfortunately the Recovery DVD that came with the laptop does not offer any repair option. Thus if you don't have another version of Vista available, you're stuck.

What I don't get is why Vista is so sensitive to forced shutdowns / reboots. My previous laptop running XP never had a problem with booting after a blue screen, or me forcing it to power down. Weird, and worrisome. This isn't very reliable this way