Boot up loop and problem booting from cd

Pilky01 · 15 Jan 2009 at 22:12

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

Pilky01 · 16 Jan 2009 at 14:09

Bump.

Pilky01 · 16 Jan 2009 at 17:39

No one got any ideas?

Pilky01 · 16 Jan 2009 at 19:50

I turned of restart on error and the bluescreen error is

*** STOP: 0x0000007b (0xFFFFFA60005AF9D0, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Pilky01 · 16 Jan 2009 at 20:14

J.B said:
You tried running a memtest, or taking some RAM sticks out and trying to run with one at a time?

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?

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.

Pilky01 · 16 Jan 2009 at 23:04

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:

Pilky01 · 16 Jan 2009 at 23:33

Done all that, no luck :mad:

Pilky01 · 16 Jan 2009 at 23:41

I only have 1 stick of ram, cpu, gfx, hdd and dvd drive pluged in, I have taken out everything unneeded

Pilky01 · 16 Jan 2009 at 23:44

Happy said:
Doing this what error/scenario do you get?

Sata dvd drive saying insert bootable cd or whatever it says, IDE dvd drive with the little flashing underscore.

Pilky01 · 16 Jan 2009 at 23:52

Yep, tried a couple of other cd's and the same happens, tried different ports and different cables.

Pilky01 · 17 Jan 2009 at 00:07

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.

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?

q6600 p5q-e, 4870, 4gb 6400, crosair 620w, sammy f1, custom water.