Vista - bluescreen while booting system.

[Guest]

Hello everyone.

I use two systems on my PC.
-Windows XP Professional
-Windows Vista 32bit

I wanted to instal new drivers for my motherboard on Vista.
It's Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI on nForce4.
I downloaded drivers from nVidia site and installed it. Then I rebooted my PC.
But this time when I selected Windows Vista to boot - after 1second of
loading I got a bluescreen telling me that something's wrong with my hardware
or drivers or something and that Windows won't load.
Safe Mode/Debug Mode/anything don't help. Also DVD with Vista which I have
don't want to boot so I can't use any system restore option.

Is there any way I can repair Windows Vista from Windows XP?
Any idea what could go wrong and why there's an bluescreen now, everytime I
load Win Vista?

Thanks for help.

 

[Guest]

Try harder so that you can boot from the Vista DVD and use system restore.
You will need to go into the BIOS to change the first boot device to DVD-ROM,
then it should boot from DVD.

 

[Guest]

Try harder so that you can boot from the Vista DVD and use system restore.
You will need to go into the BIOS to change the first boot device to DVD-ROM,
then it should boot from DVD.

That would be too easy.
DVD which I got isn't bootable. It's an upgrade dvd.
But I'll make it out - I'mma go to shop tomorrow and buy bootable DVD.
When DVD with OS isn't bootable then changing options in BIOS won't help.
I always have DVD-ROM set as first.

 

[Guest]

This is a long shot, and may be very bad advice, so try at your own risk, it
could make things even worse. I am not even sure you can do this due to the
security settings in Vista but it might be worth a try.

When nvidia pack their drivers, the files will be all with the same date,
and starting with the letters 'nv'. If you boot into XP, then use winrar to
look at the chipset driver files, you can see the date of the files. Then
search the Vista drive for those files and delete them. Hopefully when Vista
boots it will recognise the files are missing and try to boot from previous
files.

I must stress, this could be a bad idea. But if you are out of options it
might work. Pls don't blame me if this causes you to have to reinstall
windows completely.
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[Peter M]

I boot off my upgrade dvd all the time. Just roll back to the MS drivers in
safe mode, NV nf4 Ide/Sata drivers are poor.

 

[Guest]

MrSlartybartfast - Thanks for advice... I may try it later, but not sure if
it will work. I prefer to find other way to repair this.

Peter M - I can not log onto safe mode. When system start to load after
1second I got bluescreen. Doesn't matter if I try to enter safe mode/debug
mode/anything.
I just get bluescreen.
Even the try with a bootable DVD and system restore option didn't worked.
Same thing again.

I have no idea what to do, to be honest.

 

[Spirit]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925810/en-us

Startup Repair



Startup Repair

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/5c59f8c1-b0d1-4f1a-af55-74f3922f3f351033.mspx

 

[Guest]

I am not new to computers :>

I usually repair eveything on my own... this time the problem is harder.

Spirit - I tried this one and it don't help. Looks like I got to reinstall
system. Seems this could be faster than reparing it. I don't have time to
play with OS. I need it working right now :>

Thanks for help anyway

Goodbye

 

[Snuff]

Hello everyone.

I use two systems on my PC.
-Windows XP Professional
-Windows Vista 32bit

I wanted to instal new drivers for my motherboard on Vista.
It's Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI on nForce4.
I downloaded drivers from nVidia site and installed it. Then I rebooted my PC.
But this time when I selected Windows Vista to boot - after 1second of
loading I got a bluescreen telling me that something's wrong with my hardware
or drivers or something and that Windows won't load.
Safe Mode/Debug Mode/anything don't help. Also DVD with Vista which I have
don't want to boot so I can't use any system restore option.

Is there any way I can repair Windows Vista from Windows XP?
Any idea what could go wrong and why there's an bluescreen now, everytime I
load Win Vista?

Thanks for help.

It doesn't sound good. When you say you can't boot from the DVD what
do you mean? Does it give you the option? Have you played around
with the BIOS? Could you borrow a USB DVD drive from someone and try
to get the bios to boot from that?

If you can get it booted, you can run the system restore utility and
go back to the stage before you installed the bad new drivers.
Repairing from XP is unlikely to work as I would guess that the
install overwrote the previous drivers and clearly, unless you can
boot vista, you are not going to be able to use a restore image or a
shadow copy...how much was on the system? Maybe if you can find
someone iwth a Vista disk, they would lend it to you so that you can
reinstall using your own key.