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I just put my brand new Gateway computer together which came preinstalled
with Vista Home Premium edition. All went well, I was able to get online,
etc, and live updates to both Vista and McAfee (trial edition) proceeded
smoothly. Computer said I had to reboot, which I did, and blammo! The BLUE
SCREEN OF DEATH. Couldn't get into safe mode (although F8 did give me a
menu), and when I tried to run startup repair, it said it couldn't b/c a
patch was preventing restart. I reinstalled Vista, worked great, no McAfee
around this time to mess stuff up, let Vista update itself, did a reboot, and
BLAMMO the same blue screen...so now I've reinstalled Vista a 3rd time (again
startup repair didn't work, even after looking at the hard drive) and it all
works great, and this time I've turned OFF Vista updates. So, before I turn
it back on, is this a known problem? Any suggestions for what might be going
on? Did I get a dud from Gateway? Is my hardware/software configuration SO
weird that Microsoft can't figure it out? Did a weird patch come out today
that messes just with me? HELP!
Roy
(e-mail address removed)
with Vista Home Premium edition. All went well, I was able to get online,
etc, and live updates to both Vista and McAfee (trial edition) proceeded
smoothly. Computer said I had to reboot, which I did, and blammo! The BLUE
SCREEN OF DEATH. Couldn't get into safe mode (although F8 did give me a
menu), and when I tried to run startup repair, it said it couldn't b/c a
patch was preventing restart. I reinstalled Vista, worked great, no McAfee
around this time to mess stuff up, let Vista update itself, did a reboot, and
BLAMMO the same blue screen...so now I've reinstalled Vista a 3rd time (again
startup repair didn't work, even after looking at the hard drive) and it all
works great, and this time I've turned OFF Vista updates. So, before I turn
it back on, is this a known problem? Any suggestions for what might be going
on? Did I get a dud from Gateway? Is my hardware/software configuration SO
weird that Microsoft can't figure it out? Did a weird patch come out today
that messes just with me? HELP!
Roy
(e-mail address removed)