Booting Brings To The Recovery Screen
Jun 30, 2009
I moved in with a host family last week, and 5 minutes after getting the internet to work and beginning to Skype chat people (without video) my computer (Gateway laptop model MT3423 I think, Vista Premium, Dual Core AMD Turion, ~2 years old in good condition) froze and hasn't been the same since. Now, booting brings me to the recovery screen (of course - Normal Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, etc.), but no Safe Mode works - I can get to the login screen but after signing in the Welcome screen with the loading circle stays up indefinitely. Normal Mode works though, but it has major issues. After successfully signing in programs begin to load but it quickly slows down to a crawl, and takes about a minute to close the two program warning boxes that pop up (just the usual 'this program is unregistered' sort of thing). After this, Windows Calendar inexplicably loads, again painfully slow, and if the computer hasn't crashed by this point then it does shortly thereafter. And the crash varies - a few times it started with a "Server Busy - this action cannot be completed" error message but it usually says euphemistically "Microsoft Windows - this application is not responding."
I've tried several things but I haven't had any success. During this loading window, I've tried running msconfig and unchecking nonessential programs, but even after clicking Save Changes and Restart the changes are not saved, and it'll still proceed to crash and load the programs again next boot. I've tried loading the control panel, but it becomes unresponsive after I try to click anything in it. I tried opening accessories under the Start Menu and it bugged out, and instead of showing the folder icon it showed a searching icon and wouldn't open. The Command Prompt loaded but was too slow to execute anything. I also tried opening Task Manager, even through Ctrl+Alt+Delete, and after a few minutes it successfully loaded once but didn't show anything unusual and then crashed.
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Dec 11, 2009
I had a dual boot, vistaubuntu, I lost ubuntu which had grub, now vista wont boot, and the geniuses at Toshiba did not send any boot or recovery disks, is there a disk or how do I recover vista?
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There are many problems regarding black screen on boot. I've researched and surfed for over 4 hours, that is not an exaggeration, but found no use. When the vista passes log-on screen then it is time ti display desktop on boot, there simply shows a black screen with mouse cursor at the center.
Task manager works, and it seems nothing is using huge system resource at that time. After few amount of time, the desktop finally appears. I never installed driver, but in case one of them got corrupted, I installed the same version again to try to resolve the problem. It was no use. It's a OEM version that came with my laptop and this laptop has no pirated software. Not a single one
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I have a problem with my Laptop when I restart the OS. It uses Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit. The desktop is not appeared, it is fully blank of black, except 'My Documents' of windows explorer. I found this problem since I had a message from someone (via Yahoo Messenger) that share a link.. I didn't know whether it is a virus or not, but accidentally I opened the URL and extracted the file attached.. Unfortunately, when I restart the Operating System, I got a black screen with a Documents of window explorer..
I have tried the methods that has been posted in this forum with the topic search 'black screen of death', and another additional methods, except re-install OS; but there is no changes till now.. When I tried to create a new user account, it ran normally if using the new account; but when I got back to my infected account it still displayed black screen.. I'm afraid I could not re-install it, because it will need a hard configuration,..
Now, I really confuse what should I do to make it runs well? My temporary plan is to use another new account and run with it normally, but I wonder with my infected account, what happened with the infected account; Is there any possibility that the infected account will influence my new account or any related system programs? Is this the only available and safe way to run my OS well?
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Dec 29, 2009
one day my pc was doing a disk check after after the booting screen, then I suddenly stupidity press the restart button it boot then after the vista loading bar, it came with this of blue screen, A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to you computer. A process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or been terminated. If this is the first time........If problem continues, disable.........Technical information:*** STOP: 0x000000F4 (0x00000003,0x860FD020,0x860FD16C,0x8268A430)
I tried restart several times but no work,i tap F8 and tried all 3 safe modes option, but it freeze or come out this similar bsod above, i tried last known good configuration (AVCND) and Directory services restore mode but same bsod or black screen freeze. Same as the debugging mode.My pc does not have a start up repair so i use my Toshiba laptop recovery disk, so here it goes, After boot screen, then Windows is loading files bar probably the disc then after the loading bar, I go to system recovery options, then it automatically searching for problems in startup rep Then a pop up that it says Start up repair cannot repair this computer automatically, in the problem details show up this,
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: StartupRepairV2
Problem Signature 01: ExternalMedia
Problem Signature 02: 6.0.6001.18000.6.0.6001.18000
Problem Signature 03: 6
Problem Signature 04: 851981......
after the pop up, it tells me I had device attached recently, but there is no mic, speaker, usb thingys and network plug out before that!! Only mouse, keyboard, cd dvd drive, screen and remember this problem was when disck check cancel, see first paragraph of this post.
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Upon restarting my Laptop I get a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper right corner of my screen. I can not get into safe mode, I tried Vista recovery tools (System restore, Startup repair (shows no problems). I do not have any external hardware plugged in and have not installed any new hardware. I am able to access my hard drive and back up small amounts of data through my backup software which is on disk.
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Does anyone know how I can repair the boot info without having to reinstall windows. I have already got ahold of the boot disk but that didnt fix anything. I guess it at least gets into windows but one of the first startup stuff is corrupt.
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Feb 1, 2010
I am trying to fix a laptop.. it is getting blue screen.. things i did
1. Replace ram
2. Tried booting on safe mode/ last good configuration both didn't work
When I put a windows cd for repair (windows XP Home) and boot from cd.. its goes on the window where I need to select 1.c:windows but when i select that.. it goes on blue screen again.. I removed the hard disk.. connect it externally and ran a chkdsk /r and chkdsk /f then put it back to the laptop still didnt work..
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Aug 18, 2009
The problem is my PC will start, brings up the scanning Microsoft bar thingy then goes blank.
I have tried a System Restore to various different dates - no joy.
I have run Startup Repair (numerous times!) and get the following:- Windows cannot repair this computer automatically
Problem Event Name StartupRepairV2
Problem Signature 01 Manual Repair
Problem Signature 02 6.0.6000.16386.6.0.6001.18000
Problem Signature 03 3
Problem Signature 04 65537
Problem Signature 05 unknown
Problem Signature 06 BadDriver
Problem Signature 07 0
Problem Signature 08 3
Problem Signature 09 WrpRepair
Problem Signature 10 2
OS Version 6.0.6000.2.0.0.2561
Locale ID 1033
In the Diagnosis and Repair Details it says
A recent driver installation or upgrade may be preventing the system from starting.
Repair Action: System Restore
Result Cancelled
Repair action: System files integrity check and repair
Result: Failed. Error code 0 0x2
I have run the System Restore Function to the oldest stored point, before a HP update which is the only update that I can see on there.
It will start quite happily in safe mode, I did the msconfig thing and turned off all the bits in as per another thread and all the start up stuff but the problem was still there. I am now well and truly out of my comfort zone.
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