Pc only boots just past bois but crash when starts loading windows :( plz help

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As the title suggests im having problems booting up my pc. Originaly it would only start to the first systems check page before listing all the components. Having had problems with my memory before i removed one and tried running it single channel. This got me a little thurther, it listed all the components and then went on to ask me how i would like windows to start, safe,last known or normal all of which result in the initial windows page with the green loading bar for a few seconds followed by the blue screen of death. I'm running vista 32 bit and tried to boot using the dvd but that resulted in one of the following error messages:
system32/ntkrnpla.exe kernel missing or corrupt and/or
system32/boot/winload.exe status oxc0000221 file corrupt header cheksum doesn't match computed cheksum.
I googled these with limited success as they all seem to refer to windows not being installed which it has been for the last two years this threw me a bit.

I also noticed both my hard disks being 'masters' for some reason i seem to think one should be labled slave and i know that vista was installed on 160g so could it be that the boot menu simple got confused and is booting of the wrong disk and if so how do i change that? PLx bare in mind im a little out of depth here thnx

Here is my spec:
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160GB OEM
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)
Gainward BLISS GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
Samsung SH-W183 18x18 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
Literaly taken of my order page from oc.uk
 
First of all welcome to the forums :)

Have things been working ok in the past or are you trying to install Vista for the first time after putting all the components together?
 
personally, I would say hold off untill Windows 7 comes along. Untill then, just use XP :)
 
thanks and no i have had vista installed on this machine for about 1-2 years. This is the first time iv had trouble with it. I have had to move my pc from one flat to another but i used my pc for a week after that and it worked fine but after i came back from a trip to london it just wouldnt start again
 
One thing to check and I hope you don't mind me saying it but have you got ANY type of other storage plugged in? USB stick, mobile phone, external harddrive? anything at all and it can cause this or similar.
 
No no additional memory device was plugged in, the only thing that has been plugged recently for about 2 weeks was a wirless adapter that worked fine. I also tried booting it with just one hard disk and the result was the same it blue screened when loading vista. It also froze on me when i was in bios mode after about 1minute...... Oh i also removed the wireless adapter and tried booting without it =Fail.

Any ideas what i should do next? Being a student i dont realy wana waste my cash on getting it fixed by some1 else but i do need it for exams :(
 
It sounds more like it is a problem with your windows install rather than a hardware problem. Depending on exactly where it fails, you might be able to get into safe mode. Try presseing F8 every couple of seconds just before and as windows tries to load. You might need to try this a couple of times. If that doesn't work (either safe mode itself doesn't work or windows doesn't get far enough for this to be an option) then the next thing i would do is try just 1 stick of RAM on its own. If that fails then try just another stick of RAM. If that also fails then I would suspect the hard drive. Having said that, it might not mean that your hard drive is faulty, maybe that you need to re-install windows. Try and boot from the windows disc and do a repair, it's surprising what this can fix sometimes. If that also doesn't work then at this point the most painless step would be to try an install windows on another hard drive. If that is successful then it would confirm that either your harddrive or your windows install is what is wrong. Once you know this you might aswell attempt to re-install windows on your current hard drive and see what happens.
 
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Loque said:
personally, I would say hold off untill Windows 7 comes along. Untill then, just use XP :)
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I wouldnt,
Windows 7 will be a stinking pile of garbage for a year at least, Just like Vista and XP before it, Both turned out very great after the first service packs were released and the problems were fixed but before that they were so buggy it made them almost useless.

Rememebr Microsoft are well known for letting customers find the bugs in their Operating Systems for them. Rather than do proper testing in house.
 
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