Vista Will not boot.

[Pandorasghost]

Hello all,

Ok, My system

AMD X2 4200+
Gigabyte K8N Pro SLi
ATI 2900XT
3GB Geil Value Ram
Samsung Spinpoints 160GB

I have XP Installed on one Hdd and Vista Installed on the Other hard Drive.

I Installed Xp First with out issue, and installed Vista with no problems.

Vista had and sometimes does work fine. But lately, it will not boot up atall or not boot properly.

I select Vista from the menu and unless it goes to the "Windows did not start properly ect" it will begin to load, the little bar down the bottom moves alone, and sometimes just keeps going across but sometimes it does get past that point and moves to the next part, where the pearl thingy and the nice pretty noise. then the log on screen. but most of the time, it just goes to the pearl thingy and instead of the pearl it comes up with a movable mouse cursor in the middle of the screen.

and just sits there i cant do anything.

Please help me.

 

[m4cc45]

Try and get into Vista (or safe mode perhaps - press f8 when booting) and see what the event logs say. Anything with a nice red cross there?

Should give you a good idea where to start looking.


M.

 

[Pandorasghost]

It will not load into safe mode, a repair fails, and Debugging mode, and Directory services restore mode do not work neither.


Any other suggestions??
(I have searched these forums for an answer.)

 

[Deleted member 64478]

It will not load into safe mode, a repair fails, and Debugging mode, and Directory services restore mode do not work neither.


Any other suggestions??
(I have searched these forums for an answer.)

Re-install it I would.

 

[Pandorasghost]

i see what your saying, but the thing is its like a more often than not problem, but sometimes it works? Surly someone else has had these problems.

 

[m4cc45]

I haven't the only thing I can suggest if you don't want to reinstall is get into Windows Vista and check the event logs. It could be that you've damaged or mis-configured the Master Boot Record or something similar to that.

However we won't know until we know what faults Windows is picking up.



M.

 

[bledd]

chuck in your vista cd, and try a repair

 

[Pandorasghost]

I just rememberd, you guys will see the funny side, thank you all for your suggestions, but if you want to know what the problem was???

A broken connector at the motherboard on the sata cable! it was losing its connection!!!!

 

[bledd]

:/ not as hard as ide connectors then

 

[m4cc45]

I must admit I've broken SATA connectors before - they are really flimsy.

Ah well all's well that ends well and all that malarky.



M.