Help Help!!! Vista Crashed, Computer Wont Bootup!!! Please Help As Soon As Possible! Very Urgent!

hey everyone, (this is on vista 32-bit)

so my laptop was running fine today, when suddenly a blue screen popped up saying windows encountered an unexpected error and needs to restart. So it goes through the process and goes back to the original screen that pops up when you turn on your computer originally, then it goes to the unexpected boot screen and "initializes" to 100%, then it goes to the safe mode, safe mode with networking, normal mode, etc screen. Once i select a mode (and ive tried every mode), windows attempt to boot up, but after right during the windows screen seems finished loading, a blue screen flashes for a second and disappears, and the computer cycles back to the initial screen, and restarts the process. I tried to boot the windows 32-bit vista disc on the F2 setup screen, because it says there should be an option to "repair windows" on the disc, which i cannot find. I have no idea how to fix this problem and i really need my computer for work due tomorrow so quick help would be very much appreciated!

 

sounds like ram? doesn't bad ram cause the reboot over and over problem? where did you get your ram? you could try booting with 1 ram module- if you know what you are doing with ram, that is. don't go messing around in there if you don't know what you're doing, haha, not on my account at least.

if it works with one- the other is likely the problem.

the other obvious possibility is vista, but the only fix i know of for vista is XP. or a reinstall. i have never had any luck with the 'repair' option. maybe other people have.


oh, and there should be an enable automatic restart on error thing you can uncheck somewhere if you can get to it. this will stop it from trying to reboot over and over.

here's how to turn off the auto restart:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsvista/ht/arestartvista.htm

if you really have work due, i would just find another computer to do it on. these problems can take awhile to figure out!

 

i would try removing the ram one at a time. if that does not work.. it could be the hard drive.. its hard to say without seeing it

 

000111, the problem with that link is that describes how to disable it once you are logged in, I cant even get to the login screen before it restarts...

 

hahahahaha...righto! it's not something you need to do to get things working, just fyi. it will not solve the problem, it just tells the computer not to reboot after a crash. it will be nice for the, uh, next time you run into this problem.

i am hopeful you will get things working!

have you tried the ram 1 at a time? i am assuming you have two 1 gig sticks here...

 

can you try booting from a usb device??

 

like a linux live cd?

Nox

 

ok, so i tried booting with each individual ram module, and to the same result. so i do not think RAM is the problem (unless both are somehow inexplainibly fried). I haven't tried USB boot, how does that work? and I dont know how to run linux... could my harddrive possibly cause this???? my computer is pretty brand new...

 

Check your bios setting for the HDD controller and flip it between Normal vs. AHCI. it may have defaulted and it's in a different mode then your original OS install.

it has to match the driver it was installed with the OS.

 

ya i figured it out a few days ago and u r right tenchi, thats how you fix it. thanks