Hey guys,
I had a look at a friends vista pc yesterday, it appears her son was installing some software and became frustrated that the installation was either not responding or taking too long to complete. Either way, in his infinite wisdom, he decided to power off manually… Now the machine won't boot!
When you power up, it get to the device summary and indicates a hardware update? "verifying dmi pool update….success"
Then on the next screen they get:
Booting GRLDR...
Resetting the boot drive...
This is followed by a couple of very quickly displayed page of text.
Next, is the standard list of option after a failure: None of them work; Normal gets as far as the ms load screen before loading a black screen and then freezing. Last good does the same.
All of the Safe modes present the same bsod (see pic) before automatically rebooting.

So, can anyone shed some light or help me out with a few ideas? It's a new one on me
Cheers,
SW.
I had a look at a friends vista pc yesterday, it appears her son was installing some software and became frustrated that the installation was either not responding or taking too long to complete. Either way, in his infinite wisdom, he decided to power off manually… Now the machine won't boot!
When you power up, it get to the device summary and indicates a hardware update? "verifying dmi pool update….success"
Then on the next screen they get:
Booting GRLDR...
Resetting the boot drive...
This is followed by a couple of very quickly displayed page of text.
Next, is the standard list of option after a failure: None of them work; Normal gets as far as the ms load screen before loading a black screen and then freezing. Last good does the same.
All of the Safe modes present the same bsod (see pic) before automatically rebooting.

So, can anyone shed some light or help me out with a few ideas? It's a new one on me

Cheers,
SW.