vista crashes on boot up, restarts then works?

onsilva · 5 Nov 2008 at 13:33

Ok Ive had Vista Home Premium for about 8 months now. Ever since I installed it on my desktop it has this strange boot up problem. Basically I press the on button it goes through the usual boot process after the little loading sequence with the windows logo just as its about to load the small circular vista logo where I can enter my login password. The screen turns into a multi-coloured mess, however I can still hear the vista welcome sound so the system technically hasnt crashed. Its as if it just cant render the GFX of vista, its just a mass of multi-coloured squares. So I press my reset button and boot up again, guess what it works fine. I have been booting up twice for the past 8 months to get into vista and its starting to annoy me now. Any ideas? my spec is bellow.

Spec

CPU: Intel Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
GFX: ASUS GF8800 GT 512MB (Forceware version: 169.25)
Mainboard: Gigabyte P35-DS3
RAM: Giel Blackdragon 800Mhz 4x1024MB
Sound card: ASUS Xonar DX
HDD: 3 x Samsung Spinpoint 500GB
O/S: Windows Vista Home Premium Edition 6.00.600.1 (Service Pack 1)

bledd · 5 Nov 2008 at 13:45

update forceware drivers

yashiro · 5 Nov 2008 at 13:53

Update your video drivers.
Remove and re-seat your card, making sure the extra power connector is connected.

onsilva · 5 Nov 2008 at 15:07

Updated the nvidia drivers to version (178.24). No longer do I get the multi-coloured blocks when i boot up. Just a blue screen which shows some information then disapears before I can read it. I then re-boot up again, get into vista fine. And a Windows solution box pops up with this information:

OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 116
BCP1: 87E39008
BCP2: 8F60DE80
BCP3: 00000000
BCP4: 00000002
OS Version: 6_0_6001
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini110508-03.dmp
C:\Users\maxsilva\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-52587-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\maxsilva\AppData\Local\Temp\WERD029.tmp.version.txt

If I click the find a solution button I get the following information:

This problem was caused by NVIDIA Graphics Driver, which was created by NVIDIA Corporation. There is no solution for this problem at this time.

Which is just brilliant

yashiro · 5 Nov 2008 at 15:44

Boot up into your computers BIOS.
Let it sit there for 2mins.
Exit without saving, it should start to boot Windows whatever.

Does the card still crash?

onsilva · 5 Nov 2008 at 15:46

No when I go into bios then save and exit or exit without saving, it boots up perfectly ( no blue screen, no multi-coloured squares ).

onsilva · 5 Nov 2008 at 20:17

bump?