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    BSOD at "Setup is preparing your computer for first use" Everytime!!! Vaio F Series

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by paulwong92, Sep 9, 2011.

  1. paulwong92

    paulwong92 Newbie

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    My Agility 3 just came in yesterday and after multiple attempts in trying to do a fresh install of Windows 7 64bit Home Premium it always does this. Once or twice I have gotten past this to the part where I type in my name, but once I hit next, the screen goes black and BSOD AGAIN... Tried many options, looked all across many forums and I have updated my firmware to the latest 2.11. I just can't get it to work. About ready to give up at this point. The way Sony made the Vaio I literally have almost no options in the BIOS. All I can do is change boot order, enable Intel(R) Virtualization Technology and CPU C3/C6 Support. I have tried multiple combination with these options with no success.

    I have a Sony Vaio F series VPCF126FM

    Somebody please help. This is driving me crazy!!
     
    paulwong92, Sep 9, 2011
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  2. ngvuanh

    ngvuanh Notebook Deity

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    The only thing you can do now is check your RAM.
     
    ngvuanh, Sep 9, 2011
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    beaups New Jack Hustler

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    Sounds like a bum drive to me.
     
    beaups, Sep 9, 2011
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  4. paulwong92

    paulwong92 Newbie

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    Ram is good. My other drive still works and boots fine. This drive, I can save stuff on it and use it as a secondary or external... Just cant get it to get past this screen without blue screening.
     
    paulwong92, Sep 9, 2011
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  5. anytimer

    anytimer Notebook Virtuoso

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    Try changing the AHCI setting and see. This often happens when the AHCI mode of the OS is different from what is expected by the drive.
     
    anytimer, Sep 9, 2011
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  6. beaups

    beaups New Jack Hustler

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    But it shouldn't get that far if it's an AHCI issue. Actually if the drive isn't bad, it sort of sounds like an EFI/GPT bug that sony had. Is the disk configured as GPT or MBR? Check for bios update as well.
     
    beaups, Sep 9, 2011
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    paulwong92 Newbie

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    It's configured as MBR. I have updated the bios for my laptop and upgraded the firmware of the drive.
     
    paulwong92, Sep 10, 2011
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    Sounds like a corrupt Windows install.
     
    coolguy, Sep 10, 2011
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  9. paulwong92

    paulwong92 Newbie

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    Tried multiple different images in multiple ways.
     
    paulwong92, Sep 10, 2011
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    My money is on bad drive or the PC is trying efi boot. Vgn-z had the same problem with win7 until they killed efi boot via bios update. I still thinking bad drive first.
     
    beaups, Sep 10, 2011
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    In which partition are you trying to install Windows? Do you still have the recovery partition? If yes, try restoring the system back to factory state.
     
    coolguy, Sep 10, 2011
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    Starting to believe that. Just installed a OS using the same image on a regular 60gb hard drive and tried to ghost it to the SSD and it failed out at the end. Drive was doing some weird stuff in windows. Didn't show up in my computer and disk management had a questionmark next to it. People in the OCZ forum are really no help. I just have a $180 external. Useless... I'll send it back, probably. May try one more thing, I'll let y'all know if it works or not.
     
    paulwong92, Sep 11, 2011
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