H E L P ! ! Pc Fubar

I have a 6860fx that is about 2 months old. It has been flawless up till now. This morning when i booted the cpu it loaded vista and I recevied an error message saying rundll32 crashed or wouldn't load (can't remember). also when i tried to load inet explorer to resolve the issue it too could not be loaded because of errors (i wish i had written them down but the pc deteriorated rapidly). Since my favorite method of repair is cycling the power off and back on so the cpu can work it out on its own i proceeded to do so. it loaded again and had the exact same problems. So a second restart proved even worse. Upon this restart it simply showed a black screen in which i had a mouse cursor and the ability to say "ok" to another error message saying that windows\registration is corrupt. I have done nothing to this cpu but use it normally, I don't download anything on it except simple apps like vlc player and avg antivirus from download.com I tried to boot from the restore discs I made but it tried to boot windows every time, I even went in the bios and changed the first boot drive to the cd-rom drive. No Luck!

My Question:
how can I make the computer boot from the restore discs I created on day 1??? do i need to put the vista OS discs in instead?

 

You can try to run the vista repair with the OS disk included though it sounds like your problems are deeper then that . By discs you made when you got the system do you mean full backup like acronis or ghost ? or just the app drivers etc ?. Also if you didnt wipe your restore partition from the HD you can restore to factory install that way . you can also try and boot into safe mode and run t he virus scanner you have . just some options other then doing a full format.

 

If you didn't create the restore discs as bootable, than yes, you need to use your Vista disc. You probably just need to repair your windows install. Sounds like something got corrupt, I'd scan your hard disk for errors.

 

ok update: I put the vista OS disc in because i was too anxious to wait. it is currently reinstalling windows with a clean install (although i didn't do any reformatting) it says it will create a folder windows.old to save my files. I am hoping this will fix the ol girl as it makes me sad... Thanks for your help everyone I will keep you updated

 

Quadzilla (those 4 wheelers rocked!!): I didn't use backup utilites that you mentioned i did the standard backup disc procedure that vista has you do thinking that it was sufficient. I didn't realize that it created an unbootable restore disc (useless?)

Maharajah420 (you stoner): I am currently reinstalling, I would have tried to assess the problem via windows but it failed to load after restarting so all i could do is restart to a black screen with a cursor NO windows functionality at ALL.

Thank you guys for your help as mentioned above i will keep thread updated

THANKS AGAIN!!!! MUCH APPRECIATED

 

No problem, I do this for a living (umm, hey... where's my paycheck? )

Oh yea, and I meant to scan after you have your windows up and running btw, if that doesn't work you can always set the HDD up as a slave to a working system and scan it that way too.

 

ok now i have regained control of the system!!! I just did a reinstall of windows and my old files were saved which is sweet. so i'm guessing either i got a virus (seems unlikely given i have dial up and don't dl anything but not impossible) OR some files just corrupted themselves randomly which is a new event to me and i've been computing for 11 years...

anyway thanks sooo much you guys and also maharajah, I will do a scan disc to see if the HDD has problems or bad files but I think I'm good to go, can't look into it much now I have stuff to do will check out later but I think its safe to say this thread is resolved thanks thanks thanks and thanks again you guys