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    HELP - New Vista updates causing BSOD

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by FooTBall100, Jan 9, 2008.

  1. FooTBall100

    FooTBall100 Notebook Geek

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    Hi

    Anyone else installed the new Vista 32-bit updates today via Windows Update? There are 6 updates and after installing and re-booting I just get a BSOD after 3 secs, it disappears quickly so I can't read it. I'm not alone, another M1330 owner has reported this is the Windows OS section :(

    After re-storing from my Vista disk my User accounts don't behave correctly, Vista says the profiles can't be loaded so loads a temp profile instead :(

    What's going on????

    Any ideas? Anyone else affected?
     
    FooTBall100, Jan 9, 2008
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  2. awais

    awais Notebook Enthusiast

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    It happened to me too when I installed the new updates last night. The system kept restarting and BSODing. I even tried booting using last good configuration and safe mode.

    I turned it off and turned it back on after 10 secs and it booted into windows fine.
     
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    shoyer Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm glad I'm not the only one. The good news is that a system restore -- as suggested by Vista start-up repair when using booting from the DVD -- undid the damage entirely. The bad news is that the updates then installed automatically again and did the same thing.

    Right now I've set updates to install manually while I wait for a fix.
     
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    Hoorah, thanks for that - the turning off and powering back up seems to result in a successful boot with these updates installed. However because I already did a System Repair my User accounts are still not working properly, I keep getting a default profile being loaded, if I can fix this then I'll be where I want to be!
     
    FooTBall100, Jan 9, 2008
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