Hey all.
I seem to have struck a small problem.
Booted into Vista this evening, loaded up WoW, logged onto the server, and started questing. About an hour in, the system hangs totally - no response from anything.
So i'm forced to hit the reset button. I'm just thinking about what could cause it when I get a BSOD halfway into boot. I try again. Same happens.
I try my XP install (running dual boot) - that works fine. So I wonder what Vista seems to have done to itself.
After giving it a few tries, I decide that whatever's happened has fubared the install, so I crack out the disk, format the partition, and start re-installing. All goes well, and I download SP1 and install it.
When it reboots, it gets stuck at "Configuring Updates" - and no amount of reboots can shift it past that screen. Another screwed install.
I decide that i'll just have to leave it at XP for now. So I try to boot into that. Alas, in the timeframe since installing Vista, my XP install has gone down the crapper. Now it won't boot into that either, instead electing to tell me that "important system files are missing" - well I didn't move them!
So here I am, formatting the whole drive. What a pain in the backside. I can't even do a quick format either, so it's the agonising wait while it formats a 250GB drive.
I don't really have much of a point to this post, just to let you all know my evening has been spent fighting with my PC. Anyone care to offer reassuring words?
I seem to have struck a small problem.
Booted into Vista this evening, loaded up WoW, logged onto the server, and started questing. About an hour in, the system hangs totally - no response from anything.
So i'm forced to hit the reset button. I'm just thinking about what could cause it when I get a BSOD halfway into boot. I try again. Same happens.
I try my XP install (running dual boot) - that works fine. So I wonder what Vista seems to have done to itself.
After giving it a few tries, I decide that whatever's happened has fubared the install, so I crack out the disk, format the partition, and start re-installing. All goes well, and I download SP1 and install it.
When it reboots, it gets stuck at "Configuring Updates" - and no amount of reboots can shift it past that screen. Another screwed install.
I decide that i'll just have to leave it at XP for now. So I try to boot into that. Alas, in the timeframe since installing Vista, my XP install has gone down the crapper. Now it won't boot into that either, instead electing to tell me that "important system files are missing" - well I didn't move them!
So here I am, formatting the whole drive. What a pain in the backside. I can't even do a quick format either, so it's the agonising wait while it formats a 250GB drive.
I don't really have much of a point to this post, just to let you all know my evening has been spent fighting with my PC. Anyone care to offer reassuring words?
