"Stephen @ ZennHAUS" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi Guys and Gals
>
> I have an HP Pavillion dv7 Notebook (Model No. FS136UAR to be specific)
> running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit.
>
> As a little bit of history to the current problem, here is a basic run
> down of the problems so far.
>
> Got the laptop in first week of February. Up until about Mid April, the
> laptop would regularly not boot. Post would run as normal and then a
> black screen message saying Windows could not boot; insert the CD/DVD and
> repair or run a recovery.
>
> Twice the setup based repair and the HP provided recovery repair did not
> work and I had to rebuild the laptop. Once I rebuilt it with HP recovery
> partition and the second time I got a new MS retail CD and installed the
> system from scratch with drivers downloaded from HP's site.
>
> My initial "diagnosis" was that the hard drive was faulty, but between
> rebuild 1 and rebuild 2, HP had me run an HDD self test from the BIOS and
> it passed with flying colours.
>
> So that is the history to this point.
>
> NOW ... running retail VHP64 with O2007, Windows Live, IE8, CS3 and AVG as
> pretty much the only apps installed. All updates have been installed.
> However, when the updates were installing, the system kept failing to
> install a large number of updates. Upon the next boot it would install
> some more but still some would fail and so on until there were only 4
> updates left. A few times it would fail and revert on next boot, but
> eventually it finally installed all the updates.
>
> Last night (about 10 days since last rebuild) for no apparent reason,
> every time I double click something (an app, file, explorer) a command
> prompt is launched. If I right click on an icon, the first and default
> option is "Open in a command prompt". I can launch apps and open files
> etc by right clicking and choosing open.
>
> As frustrating as it is, I can get by, but after shutting down my laptop
> and restarting it at a friends place, it no longer recognizes my mouse (MS
> compatible 3 button (2+wheel) optical). The mouse has never needed a
> specific driver, but now it is asking for one. My touch pad is not working
> either. GRRR!
>
> I have run a virus scan last night and all comes up clean.
>
> This is the first time I have had a system with a 64-bit OS. Is this
> something I can expect when running 32-bit apps or is this indicative of a
> deeper hardware issue?
>
> If there is any further detail that might be useful feel free to ask.
> Also, I am considering putting Windows 7 Ultimate 64 RC on the machine to
> rebuild it (or is that a bad idea too?)
>
> Cheers
>
> Stephen @ ZennHAUS
Check all your connections as Rick said, then run a chkdsk c: /r at an
elevated command prompt (with admin privileges)--type cmd in the search
box>rt. click cmd when pops up>run as admin> type y when it asks if you want
to run next start>restart.
After that run sfc /scannow at elevated cmd prompt.
If those don't help, you can try a startup repair which acts as an uber SFC
to possibly replenish/fix corrupted files.
MSFT bills it for no boots, but I've seen it fix systemically broken Vista
components.
If you need to repair major components of the Vista OS or can't boot, and
don't have a Vista DVD, you can download the .iso from this link and burn
it:
Download Vista Repair Disk
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/window...disc-download/
1) First try 3 options from Startup Repair. If you have a Vista DVD then
restart with it in the drive>press any key to boot from it and run Startup
Repair. From Startup Repair you have 3 good tools with an excellent chance
of fixing your system. If you don't have a Vista DVD from which to boot to
Startup Repair, no problem, Download the .iso from the link below and
burn it, and you'll have the Microsoft Vista Repair Disk with Startup
Repair.
Download Vista Repair Disk
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/window...disc-download/
How to Use Startup Repair from the Vista DVD or the Repair Disk you make:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial142.html
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...f3f351033.mspx
Good luck,
CH