VISTA refuses to boot, AGAIN

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Now last time it bsod'd coz of a mobo change, okay fine I reinstalled etc all went okay.

Today I flashed my bios, I booted up to Vista and worked fine: but noticed I only had 3 gb ram, I renmebered, I forgot to turn back on memory remapping.
So I go into bios, enable memory remapping, fix a few settings like disable the floppy drive.

Reboot: BAM, just after the vista kernel loader just before logon a REBOOT, ***, why on earth does vista whine about memory remap now, why doesn't it boot, I didn't change hardware, all I did was a damn bios update :mad:.

Any idea's how to make Vista come to it's sences again and boot like a normall OS would after a simple bios change?
I'm not reinstalling vista for a bios update, come on, if I have to then **** Vista, it's not worth reinstalling.

Xp booted fine without problems during all this.

Why on earth is Vista so sensitive to minor changes, xp went through 5 mainboards and probably 20 versions of bios in total, also at least 15 cpu's.
But vista can't even manage a bios change grrrrr.
 
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What settings did you change? Can you list them and have you tried putting the settings back to the way they were to see if stops the reboot just before the logon panel.
 
helmutcheese said:
Have you got the MS Fix for 4GB or RAM use, you may need pull 2GB till then.
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It worked just b4 the bios update though with remap option enabled, and after bios update without remap :confused: .


What settings did you change? Can you list them and have you tried putting the settings back to the way they were to see if stops the reboot just before the logon panel.
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Just put ram volts on 2.1, upped the nb volts 1 notch to 1.45.
Also disabled the floppy.
And enabled memory remap.
Didnt even yet put the ram on proper timings, it's still on the ''safe'' spd timings instead of on 4-4-4-12 ( spd does 5-5-5-16 ).
 
rafster said:
Does that fix even matter? I've installed Vista countless times on 4gb/8gb config with no patches without problems...
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So have I and the patch wont run on mines as said not needed (but I am Beta testing so Vista installs as SP1 Beta or SP1 RC etc.

But is a known issue and fixed now by MS.

- Microsoft Hotfix 929777 (4GB RAM memory addressing problem)
- Microsoft Hotfix 938194 (General compatibility fix)
- Microsoft Hotfix 938979 (Overall performance update)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...7C-614B-404C-850C-377541E93C18&displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...44-FEF3-4C80-AF1A-8B732DCB2756&displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...A0-77F6-4196-8A3F-78C1470AC18E&displaylang=en
 
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Didn't install any 4 gb hotfix but I always installed all windows updates including optional ones, so should be in there.
Updated last time just 2 days ago.
 
Will try later today thanks. ( I'll alrdy dldd em install em l 8r)
Atm I can't be bothered booting into vista or getting the prope bios settings back to boot it.
I will still tonite though.

Tbh I don't need vista anyhow yet (yet as in today) atm on a borrwed p4 631 lol as borrowed my 6400 to someone but gona buy an E6420 tomoz.
Also need my 8800GT back from RMA b4 going into vista mainly, with my 6800GS gaming is just too poor in vista lol.
 
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Hmmm just after genuine validation microsoft asked me if I wana participate in some kind of Microsoft Silverlight beta test ?
What is this and should I do it ?

EDIT done it, appears to be some download manager plugin for your browser that turns on on the microsoft site.

Anyhow got the 3 updates, will install em if I manage to boot into vista later today.
 
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When u changed the bios did u clear the cmos after and THEN redo ** settings. Usually best after a bios change, well for me anyhow.
 
Skeet, why on earth should I clear the cmos when I loaded bios general defaults just after flashing and can do so anytime?

As said I'll try it without memory remap again but I'd reather not reset to defaults as it means I have to change my hdd drive priority's again, put my sata controller into raid mode, put all the default voltages & timings on for ram, disable rubbish like floppy and logo boot, disable stuff like speedstep & c1e, etcetc.
 
Why? So it rescans the hardware in ** comp after the new bios is up and running. Its a standard practice mate. Just cos it looks like its defaulted after u did bios upgrade doesnt mean squat.

Another trick i hear works is take out 2gb of ram, load the comp then shut down then put the 2gb back in then boot up, i heard from a few sites it helps detect it again after bios updating.
 
snowdog said:
Skeet, why on earth should I clear the cmos when I loaded bios general defaults just after flashing and can do so anytime?

As said I'll try it without memory remap again but I'd reather not reset to defaults as it means I have to change my hdd drive priority's again, put my sata controller into raid mode, put all the default voltages & timings on for ram, disable rubbish like floppy and logo boot, disable stuff like speedstep & c1e, etcetc.
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When I put an extra 2x2gb in, I had to reset CMOS to safe values then change settings for memory CPU etc for it to work, the exact same settings with no CMOS reset didn't work, was bizarre..perhaps something to do with the DMI data...do try it as he said.
 
Some peeps cant even boot with 4GB and need use 2GB set volts to 2.1v then add final 2GB so reseting Bios for them in a non no as Ram volts would be low.

I aint got any Bios Remapping and no need for it, never had any of the 4GB issues inc the X-FI inb vista one one, but I know the HotFixes I posted are for a reason.

Its hard to pinpoint an issue I know about but aint had myself.
 
Booted with no bios adjustments by booting with '' last known working configuration''.
No problems so far, back in Vista with 4 gb of working ram :).
will install the 3 patches now :).


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It says all 3 updates don't count for my system:



Any idea's :confused: ?
 
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