Windows 7 64bit Update Stalling And Now Loops And Loops
Jun 8, 2011
So, I shutdown my computer this morning and it was installing 96 updates, so I left it and went to school. I came back after 6-7 hours and it was stuck on 68/96 updates installing, I left it for another 30 min and it was still on 68/96. I decided to press the reset button, even though it said please don't unplug or turn off comp while updating. Now whenever I boot up, it says configuring updates 0%, after about 5-10 min it'll just boot to desktop. And whenever I shutdown, it'll do the same process again, installing updates 1/80, I'm not sure if it ever reaches 80/80 but it shuts down. And when I boot up again same deal... I'll actually have not sat infront of it and monitor the numbers, but in the meantime, is there a fix for this? This is shittttty, cuz I just reformatted comp.
When I try to wake my machine from S3 sleep mode I see the hard drive lights power up but nothing happens, I get a black screen for about 5-6 seconds then my machine proceeds to boot loop itself until i manual shut it down with the power button. Sometimes it will start up regularly with no problems, and about 60-70% of the other times it will do the problem i have explained above.
I just bought the new components for my PC. They are;
- Asrock H61M-VS mainboard - Intel i5 2500 CPU - 2x4GB Transcend 1333 - WD Blue 750 GB HDD - WD Green 1TB HDD - Thermaltake TR2 RX 450W PSU - Palit GT440 1GB - LG IPS235V monitor
So, this is how it went.
1) I carefully installed all the components, made sure everything is in order, cables, fans, slots...connected the graphics card to monitor via DVI. Turned on the PC just to see if it all works - no signal. Bad start. Plugged out the DVI cable, took the D-Sub cable from the graphics card to monitor. Turned the PC on again - no signal. Then I've plugged the onboard D-Sub to my monitor and - finally some pictures. BIOS (UEFI) utility showed up, I checked the temperatures, saw everything was in order.
2) Then I've set the disk modes to AHCI, corrected the boot order (HDD #1 first, USB DVD second, HDD #2 off), plugged in the USB DVD drive, put the Windows 7 Ultimate disk, and started the installation procedure. Opted for the x64 version, made a 50GB partition just for the Windows, chose all the settings, typed the computer name and adjusted the date & time...then the installation showed "Preparing Your Desktop"...so I kept watching the nice blue background and waited...after 15 seconds, it flashed the desktop with all the icons and then - automatically showed "Logging Off" and "Shutting Down". After few seconds, the PC kept showing POST screen for a second, then nothing...and it looped. It went into some weird restart loop.
3) I repeated the process again, making sure I didn't make any mistakes. Installation got thru, "Preparing Your Desktop"....10 seconds after the glimpse of Windows desktop and the sudden "Logging Off" and "Shutting Down" screens. And the reboot loop again.
Tried to shut off the PC and turn it back on - it just kept rebooting around the POST screen.
4) Unplugged the second memory module and disconnected the backup HDD, leaving the PC with just one 4fGB module and one HDD. Tried the installation again. Same results.
5) Took the old XP SP2 disk, changed the disk modes to IDE, installed the XP SP2. Everything seemed to work normal.
6) Put the graphics card CD and tried to install the drivers, because I didnt want to work with the integrated graphics. NVidia installer alerted me that "there is no such hardware in your configuration". Checked the HW Monitor program, it displayed CPU, HDD and Mobo temps, but not the GPU temps. Checked the Device Manager under Display Adapter - only Intel graphics shown.
7) Took out the graphics card from the PC and tried to install Windows 7 again. Installation went thru and then the regular Preparing Your Desktop / Logging Off / POST screen reset loop.
She asked me to restore her computer to factory settings. She is not at all tech savvy, so I know for a fact she did not do anything to mess it up. It was running fine, but she just wanted to clean it out and bring it back to like new. She pretty much only uses her computer for school papers and email. I have done factory recovery on many computers at this point and I have never had any problems at all until now.
First thing I did was hook up my external hard drive and saved all of her documents and pictures. I then restarted the computer and pressed F8 and then clicked on repair my computer. It took me to datasafe backup and restore. I went as far as to restore the factory image. I chose not to save any files and to restore it to new again. It completed as normal and I clicked restart.When it restarts, a list of files pops up and then it says "Setup is preparing your computer for first use." It also shows another list of files that seem to be loading as well as it tells me that it is booting in safemode. Next thing it says is that "Setup will continue after restarting your computer". It then continues to restart and perform this boot loop until I turn it off.
I tried to repair the computer and it would fail saying it was offline. So, I plugged the hard drive into an adapter to hook it to my other computer. I opened the disk manager. I saw that the recovery partition was not active like it is on my other hard drives. I also see that for some reason it has a tiny partition that is labeled fat. On my other hard drives it is labeled oem partition. Not sure if this makes a difference or not, but thought it was worth mentioning. Also, when I choose to explore the recovery partition, it says the recovery folder is empty, however the properties say it is nearly full with many files. On my other hard drives I can not access that folder at all. I also am not sure if this matters or not, but didn't want to let anything I am doing go unnoticed.
The pc specs I have are: Amibios, Pentium dual-core,cpu E6600@3.06 GHz,CPU mem 2048mb (dual) speed 3.31GHz. I have no idea how to fix this. The pc crashed in WIN 7 after accepting updates and WIN XP crashed after upgrading to IE 9.This pc is set up to dual boot. However, when the pc tries to boot the screen is black with white text and it has these options: WIN 7/64 bit, WIN 7/32 bit and WIN XP earlier version.No matter which OS I choose, it just loops to windows start-up repair and the results are always windows cannot automatically repair this computer.Safe mode is not accessible and if it starts to load at all, these errors show-KDCOM.DLL corrupt and SPTD.SYS hit enter shows. I thought I had a bootable WIN XP disk, but it is not. Therefore,I cannot try to do repairs that a way.I never got the WIN 7/ 64 bit cd, yet it shows as drive "e". Weekly I check for updates on these utilities and then I run CCleaner, Winclean for the registry part and if necessary Road kill then Malwarebytes all in safe mode when it worked.
Here are a few other things I tried and got results from:
*Memory test= passed
*Safe Mode= never happens no matter what OS I choose
*Last known good config= never works
*loops in start-up repair cannot fix issues-no matter what OS choice is made from the black screen
*never tried to disable auto start-up from black screen because I did not understand this option well or even thought it would be a benefit. Any tips would be appreciated.
I've checked the temperature, the processor usage, no dust, nothing. But every few seconds to a minute my computer just stalls. The processor usage stays very low, but the computer just locks up for a moment or two.No viruses, or anything. This happened right after I changed wireless cards.
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The wireless adapter does NOT appear in ipconfig! but Ethernet does.Ethernet works properly.Unable to rollback/system restore as all deleted (don't know how or why).There is no wireless connectivity and with a USB wireless adapter the same problem. Hardware installs and says working OK, but unable to connect to wireless also.
Ipconfig is:
Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Jabberwocky Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
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sry but my english is not so good,I have many programms from siemens simatic manager winncc winccflex touch paneel and so on, but the system goes very often down memory to low and so I think.. hey I have 8mb ram but only use 3.2, because I don`'t have realy the fun to pay the stupid price for'n update to 64 bit in real life such a thing is "dienst am kúnden" sry when microsoft is to no interested in such thing Perhaps is nearby future all user will use.
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My Samsung series 3 laptop has been sending out popup messages telling me I need a bios update, I go to the Samsung software update site and this bios update has been failing, I have made several calls and chats to techs at Samsung who tell me to do what I have already done, they tell to ask for tier 2 tech, who can go in my computer and fix it , When I finally got a tier 2 tech, they told me the same thing, I told him what I had been told about him and what he could do, He said, is it working , I said yes, but settings on computer change on their own,like wifi turns itself on and that concerns me. Anyway, He said that it didn't need a bios update,even the Samsung website said this computer needed a bios update. I posted this on hardware,firmware concerns, and they told me to post here, I was going to go to a site ,that had a download that checked drivers,
