Boot up loop and problem booting from cd

Pilky01

Pilky01

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I am having a little trouble at the moment, I turned on my computer and it starts up normally and gets to the vista loading screen with the scrolling bar and then a blue screen flashes up for a fraction of a second and then it restarts and does exactly the same again.

I have been trying to boot from both ultimate boot cd and the vista dvd but get the error "reboot and select proper boot device" whenever I select to boot from cd

The day before I had been messing around with my HDD partitions but I think this is unrelated.

Any help appreciated, I am running a q6600, 4gb crosair 6400 ram, 4870 and a p5q-e motherboard.

Thanks in advance
 
I turned of restart on error and the bluescreen error is

*** STOP: 0x0000007b (0xFFFFFA60005AF9D0, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
 
Confused by what you are saying...

Are you trying to reinstall? - Cos if you are not then why are you trying to boot from the DVD?

Anyway, since you are trying to boot the DVD then you are reinstalling, or repairing, so, have you selected setup Defaults in the CMOS? - Thats the first thing Id look at.

Have you tried SAFEMODE and last known good un?

Also the lne you gave, says nothign that can help.

Filenames etc might point in the right direction, but not a stop line... It could be anything.

Is that all the info it gave you?
 
J.B said:
You tried running a memtest, or taking some RAM sticks out and trying to run with one at a time?
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Not tried memtest but the ram is a week old and I have tried it in every combination of slots and its not working

FatRakoon said:
Confused by what you are saying...

Are you trying to reinstall? - Cos if you are not then why are you trying to boot from the DVD?

Anyway, since you are trying to boot the DVD then you are reinstalling, or repairing, so, have you selected setup Defaults in the CMOS? - Thats the first thing Id look at.

Have you tried SAFEMODE and last known good un?

Also the lne you gave, says nothign that can help.

Filenames etc might point in the right direction, but not a stop line... It could be anything.

Is that all the info it gave you?
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I was trying to boot from a cd to run memtest but it wouldn't, then I tried the vista dvd just incase the memtest cd was damaged but I got the same error.

Cleared the CMOS tried same mode and last good whatever it is. Thats all the error messages it gave me, nothing else.
 
Plugged the hard drive into another computer and formatted the c drive, tried to install vista using a sata dvd drive and it says reboot and select proper boot device.


Tried with an ide dvd drive and I just get a black screen and a little flashing underscore type thing.



This computer is going out of the window in a minute :mad:
 
Somethign or nothing but do you have any other kind of disk in the PC?

I have a ZIP Drive in an old A8N-SLI system and it wont boot up without a disk in there, and any disk will do, and it does not even try to boot from it, but without a Zip disk in there, it wont boot anything?

So, any Compact Flash / SD Cards, floppy disks and whatever, make sure that nothing is in.

5 step process then

1. Clear the CMOS and set SETUP DEFAULTS
2 .Make sure that its looking for the CD first and then the HD.
3. Fail
4. Open Window
5. Create large cuboid projectile

I have a couple of boards that do the flashing underscore thingy in the top/left of the screen... Clearing the CMOS usually does it.
 
When installing Vista make sure you unplug all other IDE hard drives.

So you have unplugged all unnecessary DVD optical drives and hard drives, selected boot from cd in the bios, and then run the CD?

Also add that on my M2N32 Deluxe I have to install Vista with 2GB then put my other 2GB back in other the installation has finished. Perhaps removing 2GB is worth a shot?
 
Tried cleaning the Vista DVD?

Also put the Sata DVD drive in to 'Sata port 1' and the HD into 'Sata port 2' if it's Sata.
 
Not sure what to suggest to try next :/ :(

Unless you have another PC to destroy and you could try swapping bits around? Like booting the Vista DVD using the Sata DVD drive on another PC.
 
Happy said:
Not sure what to suggest to try next :/ :(

Unless you have another PC to destroy and you could try swapping bits around? Like booting the Vista DVD using the Sata DVD drive on another PC.
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Only an old ide one.

Blackberries said:
So you can't even get memtest to run? Eek.

Just out of interest, what are your full system specs?
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q6600 p5q-e, 4870, 4gb 6400, crosair 620w, sammy f1, custom water.
 
Well if you have a second PC and nothing else seems to be working, you could go through the long and arduous process of systematically swapping in/out parts to see if it's one piece of hardware causing the problems. I think you said you tried the HDD in another computer and it functioned normally then? That's a start. Try using some old RAM, seeing if the problem persists (or putting your RAM in a different machine), taking out the GFX card and using the motherboard's onboard, etc, etc. If you don't have a spare PC maybe rope in a willing friend?
 
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