Will Not Complete Full Boot Freezing
Oct 7, 2008
My niece’s laptop will not complete a full boot freezing just before I would expect to see the desktop., HP 530 Notebook with Vista Basic, Intel Celeron M 440 @1867 MHz, 512 MB Memory, Advance Boot Options (F8), Safe Load loads to screen immediately prior to desktop. (Black screen with Safe Load at all corners.), Safe Load Command Prompt Loads to Safe Load Black screen but no prompt., Normal Load goes to Welcome screen and shows the wait symbol. By using “Repair Your Computer” option:
1. I tried restore points but did not resolve issue and restore points disappeared once I tried to restore prior to Service pack 1
2. I can access the command prompt. I can change directories and do directory listings.
3. Individual partitions are c: d:ecovery and e:sources. There is reference to x:windowssystem32 789 files and 71 Directories taking about 146 MB. there appears to be unnamed directories in d: & e: Owing to previous problems – now resolved – a back up or restore disk was not made. We have the Vista disks downloaded from the laptop.
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May 28, 2008
I would like to *manually* save different versions of Complete PC Backup, but Vista won't give me that option and will only save incremental backups. As someone noticed here on the forums, "using the *scheduled* backup is the only way to get the checkbox to create full backups, each and every time you want one". However, scheduled backups is not what I want to do, as I'm losing control of the exact PC versions. Can I rename the earlier backup to something else (eg. "WindowsImageBackup1"), so Vista would create a new folder "WindowsImageBackup" and save a new full backup into it? If yes, when I rename the folder from "WindowsImageBackup1" back to "WindowsImageBackup" in order to restore the earlier version of PC, will
it get corrupted or confuse Vista?
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Mar 23, 2008
I have vista home premium. The first time i turn on my comp each day vista freezes on desktop screen. I reboot and it fine. I looked in event viewer and the error which is happening when it freezes is to do with ACPI. Error message:IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 7, function 0. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance. IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 6, function 0. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance. etc.....I have been assured this is a Vista problem and not hardware.
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Sep 23, 2009
I have had it Vista keeps freezing about 5 minutes after boot up.
Software up to date, drivers up to date, BIOS, up to date,memory tested, no errors, switched out 4GIGs RAM, no change, Event viewer , no errors Shut off Avast, still freezes chkdsk /r no change, ccleaner, no change, deframentation, no change.
it used to be after the first reboot, the machine ran fine, until yesterday, when after any and every reboot, 5 minutes, system freezes, nothing works, disk activity can not be heard.
other drive XP, no problems running, no freezeups, am using it now.
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Mar 29, 2009
During my days working as an in-store PC tech at Circuit City, these were techniques I developed for cleaning heavily infected computers. This is what I did if the client's computer won't boot, freezes during startup, or constantly crashes.
1. Remove hard drive and connect it to a clean, anti-virus protected computer. Run a virus scan on infected drive. Physically delete known virus files/folders. Run a checkdsk to correct any file system errors, which was done though command prompt> chkdsk /r
2. Reinstall hard drive in client computer. Boot computer into safe mode. Used CCleaner & MSCONFIG to disable any viruses/malware from starting during boot. Run an antispyware program such as AdAware or Spysweeper (run portably through flash drive. Scan for viruses with client's AV program, if present
3. Reboot client computer normally. Run CCLeaner to delete temporary files, cookies, etc. Defrag client's computer, I used Auslogics Disk Defragmenter (on flash drive. Check for internet connectivity then update client's AV program, if it hadn't already. Scan for viruses with client's AV program to ensure computer is cleaned And if all failed, or the OS was damaged too much, then we reinstalled/recovered the OS
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Mar 26, 2008
I have vista home premium The first time i turn on my comp each day vista freezes on desktop screen. I reboot and it fine. I looked in event viewer and the error which is happening when it freezes is to do with ACPI
Error message:IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 7, function 0. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance. IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 6, function 0.
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Either monitor will boot in safe mode, however only my original viewsonic will make it all the way to login. Everything runs fine with only the Viewsonic connected, but with only the ASUS, or with both, it blows up on me. The BSOD was something along the lines of System_Service_Exception citing a file which I believe was nvlddmkm.sys. I did a bit of googling but did not find anyone, or any answers that had something to do with adding a second monitor, lots of answers about various graphic drivers, but none specific enough that I wanted to start trying any.
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I went to turn it on this morning, I just had a black screen showing the following words;
Press F2 to run
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It then went to reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key. I went into the BIOS to change the boot order and inserted my Vista home premium 32bit. I then got windows is loading in files. After a short while I got the black start up screen with Microsoft Corporation but after a few seconds it just froze. Moments later it went to a blue screen with white writing part of which said the following; A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED AND WINDOWS HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE TI YOUR COMPUTER.
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Apr 22, 2008
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