Endless Loop/Hang - Urgent help needed pls

I'm just so glad I finally found the url to this forum. Took me quite awhile and almost gone bold pulling my hair out in frustration.

24hrs ago I compile a list to try fix and get my speed mode to boot when switching to speed mode, but with my track record the first attempt got me into trouble which I wasn't prepare for to recover and I'm going to sit tight here till someone can help me out. I dare not try anything by myself. Changes I did to my notebook drivers and configuration before the endless looping and hang started

I felt my CD-ROM has porblems since windows uploaded a cdrom driver and from my orginal spec says DVD and nothing CD-ROM. Before I when ahead I read the KB in microsoft which tells you to do some easy registry fix and search up my model which was the Matshi.ta DVD-RAM UJ 852S. I decided before I try microsoft way, to find a driver from a reliable source but couldn't decide who was reliable since I saw in one of the searches someone mention Matsushi.ta not Matshi.ta. Matsushi.ta made more sense since I never heard of Matshi.ta so I decided to skip finding a driver which Sony site did not supply one, I when ahead with microsoft registry edit. It was simple since is just deleting the upperfliter and lowerfliter but I was worry since I didn't had the upperfilter and in the instuction said skip forward to the next step which was restart. So learning from past mistakes I do a restore point before I made the changes as I learn doing it after was practically the same case of no recovery. Did a usual printscreen of system info, which I send to my other comp for refrence and to compare what the changes did after restart. Hit restart and everything booted and back in windows blazing fast but I was skeptical towards the performance increase so I check my print screen which show my task manager and compare to the current, there was an increase of ~500mb cache, thinking that it was DVD-RAM I check my device manager to see what changes it had with my print screen before restart. To my surprise nothing was change in Display name for any hardware or system devices except for my CD-ROM which display DVD-RAM after restart. So I when to check the my CD-ROM(DVD-RAM) registry and difference was it didnt had the lowerfilter and was normal since I deleted it but no new upper or lowfilter was added. Taking additional percation I restarted my laptop two more times after having it run for 10mins and the shutdown and booting into windows was indeed blazing fast and I had a grin thinking I might have fix all my problems as I concluded this was my root issue to to having my other drivers being updated or making windows identifying my devices wrongly with loading of compatible drivers and display names.

Jumping in joy. Yes I did for couple of seconds since my 3rd reboot was also blazing fast I decided before trying Speed mode to see if I can fix some of the issues I have listed down. Before I enable my wireless switch which I have it off everytime before I reboot or shutdown my notebook as a percaution to windows always trying to update my drivers thru searching the internet. I listed down three items to concentrate on fixing which should keep me busy for couple of hours.

1. Processor chip which windows loaded in intelppm.sys
2. USB with display name composite
3. memorystick0 which was showing as my second IDE

Turn on the wiresless switch, connected to the internet and bluetooth enable, everything ran perfectly and device manager showed no devices display. Before moving forward I double check device manage with can for hardware changes just to be sure and one issue pop up. ACPI x86-based PC, and my joy turn sour cause I had no clue what does that do.

So I added to my list of devices to fix as it being the fist. Check hardwareID and it showed acpiapci. Then I didn't know what was apci, figuring it was one of the many typo's, I search it up and browsing thru I saw Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC. As stupid as I look, I figured that would be one of the changes I need for Speed mode, so I when into Update driver and see if I had this option, and I did! So I mark this as fix and didn't made the changes as I'm not a big fan of restarting my comp all the time. So I noted down to change it before I reboot.

Next was intelppm which I tried updating it with the .inf orginal chipset for my notebook, nothing workings. So I did a search on intelppm and was worrying to see people having this issue are mostly having AMD processors. So I saw a microsoft kb in the search and I open it up support.microsoft.com/kb/888399 , and none of the things listed in this kb I had issues with plus is on XP OS and I'm on vista, except for this line in the kb : This problem may occur on a portable computer that is running an Intel Pentium M (Centrino) mobile processor if the Gv3.sys processor driver is force-installed on Windows XP SP2. So I mumble as mine was Intell Core Duo which I understand is also in the family of the centrino mobile processor but Intel Pentium M I figured was wrong as they did had a MMX Technology processor. So my attempts to find a solution fail after a while and decided to put it aside.

USB composite. This was confusing but I ended up having to find some possible misplace drivers by windows on the same location port. The location port of this composite device I was searching on also happens to be the Sony camera location which recovery/windows install for when I did a recovery couple of weeks back, which Im not excatly sure if I got it right since all the info was in my notebook but they share the same Root and 0000 which I listed as below as I recall how mine was. Maybe someone with a SZ or Z model can help confrim what these port are on thiers

ROOT\CLSID\0000 - Composite Device
ROOT\CLSID\0000\MI(something) - Sony Camera

One of the microsoft sites which I was searching up relating to USB composite shows the Video switching of (1) and (0). For those who are interested to study more how the Stamina and Speed mode works http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa475772.aspx

The following illustrates a descriptor layout for a composite USB device. The example device has two functions:

Function 1: Video Class
This function is defined by an interface association descriptor (IAD) and contains two interfaces: interface zero (0) and interface one (1).
The system generates hardware and compatible identifiers (IDs) for the function, as described in Enumeration of Interface Collections on Devices that Have IADs. After matching the appropriate INF file, the system loads the Video Class driver stack.

Function 2: Human Input Device
This function contains only one interface: interface two (2).
The system generates hardware and compatible IDs for the function, as described in Enumeration of Interfaces Not Grouped in Collections. After matching the appropriate INF file, the system loads the Human Input Device (HID) class driver.


So now I move on to memorystick0 since the composite usb was pretty much so complex and alot info to absord decided to put it on hold and see what I can do with my memorystick0 being my second IDE or in the device manager to put it more accurately as a hard disk with 0mb storage.

After some browsing, I was sleeping off infront of the comp, I decided to save my work and call it a night which I regreted doing so. I did my usual back up and everything by order and only note I had to make changes to before rebooting the comp was the Power change. I can confrim I did the change to Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC but what I'm not sure now is if I did it in the battery section or on the computer display. To understand my confussion here, open your device manager and you will see you Battery and Computer. And they have devices listed under them. Now I was too tried to recall which I change but I did change one of them.

So I restarted and spend couple of hours trying to recover this looping problem. Manage to go into BIOS now and recovery options but to my horror my system restore points are empty. When I was expecting to quite a number of dates for me to choose since I do them on a daily basis and before any changes I make on drivers or system related.

I don't how else to stress for help here. I don't wish to do another C: restore as almost a week ago I just manage to have windows vista updating till SP2 without manually downloading from the web, plus I have a chance of losing all the info I have gather and save.

- helpless

ps : http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28423 - Regarding Sony Media which we have in our VAIO notebooks. Is a report by IBM and I'm not if it has effect on us now still but I usually have problems with it in Event reports acting weirdly after fresh recovery, as to why I do not have my wireless switch on all the time and only when I want to use them internet but once I had Vista SP2 and updated all the Sony updates for my notebook my Event reports for Error and security was down to almost nothing compared to few hundred I get in 24hrs perviously which was not all Sony Media but a portion is

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791134.aspx - System-Defined Device Setup Classes Available to Vendors which I accidentally came across. Comes in handly to let you know roughly want drivers you would need for the GUID and also to help identify unknown devices if you ever have problem identifying them

 

I feel that this is not necessary moofo. Having read your other threads the advice you were given there is what i feel you should take.
If something is so corrupted somewhere and is too complexed to fix do a clean install.
Make your recovery discs, clean your drive and then do an install.
The best path of action is to do this with a retail disc but you don't have any.
At this stage i don't want to tell you to buy W7 discs because your laptop could have a hardware problem.
If the clean installs do not work you most likely have a hardware problem.
I have had no problems loading my Nvdia drivers on my SZ in Vista 32bit or W7 64bit.