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    TOTAL vista startup failure on m1330

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by homoneger, Mar 25, 2008.

  1. homoneger

    homoneger Newbie

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    My 2 months old m1330 with vista home premium wont start.

    (M1330, 2,2 ghz, 4 gb ram, nvidia 8400, 7200 rpm 160 gb HD.)


    My computer never gets past the vista startup screen with the vista logo and the yellow loading bar moving (the bar keeps moving, but nothing happens).

    I have tried everything I could think of (including BIOS update) but with no result.

    I cant startup in safe-mode either. It freezes after loading crcdisk.sys.

    If I choose the windows-repair startup, I see the vista startup screen (as described above) and it ends in a black screen with only the mouse cursor (which is moveable).

    If I boot with my vista-reinstall-CD it loads all the files from the cd, but it freezes in a black screen as well.

    I have NO idea what to do. I would like to save some of my data if possible, but I dont know how. I cant even reinstall vista.

    Is it the graphics-card? Or motherboard? Or some corrupt driver or startup-files?

    Can anyone help????
     
    homoneger, Mar 25, 2008
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  2. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    I'm sure you can reinstall Vista, unless it is some hardware failure. The thing to do in this case is either to put your HD into an external enclosure and access it from another computer, or boot your computer from a Linux LiveCD to access your data. After this, you can wipe your HD and reinstall.
     
    pixelot, Mar 25, 2008
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  3. JaY-B

    JaY-B Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just had the same problem two days ago. My system is exactly the same as yours and i got it on the 9th of January. I tried everything but the only solution i found was to reinstall everything.
    You can try to perform a chkdsk /f it might fix the issue.
     
    JaY-B, Mar 25, 2008
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  4. chelet

    chelet Notebook Deity

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    Can you boot to the Dell Diagnostics partition?

    I think the problem is hardware-related. Best way to get your data off the hard drive might be to attach it to another computer as a slave drive.

    If the problem were drivers or startup files, you should still be able to boot from the Vista CD. It might be that the graphics card or the RAM is bad. Or maybe the motherboard.
     
    chelet, Mar 25, 2008
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  5. homoneger

    homoneger Newbie

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    UPDATE: I called dell support, and they send a tech-guy, and he ended up changing my MB, HD, and bluetooth device.

    So I guess it was a major breakdown...
     
    homoneger, Apr 1, 2008
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