Vista loads with BSOD and reboots endless cycle

[Guest]

I installed Vista on a laptop and it BSOD and then reboots, the BSOD appears
for only a second , which is not enough time for me to see what the error is
and then reboots... I can't currently launch windows , but can i boot off a
cd and change a setting to allow the BSOD to appear on the screen so i can
see what it says?

Any help would be great..

thanks

 

[Kerry Brown]

I installed Vista on a laptop and it BSOD and then reboots, the BSOD
appears
for only a second , which is not enough time for me to see what the error
is
and then reboots... I can't currently launch windows , but can i boot off
a
cd and change a setting to allow the BSOD to appear on the screen so i can
see what it says?

Any help would be great..

thanks

As soon as you turn on the computer start pressing the F8 key as if you were
going to boot to safe mode. When you get the startup menu pick
"Disable automatic restart on system failure".

 

[Guest]

thanks Kerry!

I am not sure if you play with .wim files and BDD2007 , but we have some
Dell Latitude D620's that i made a custom .wim for, and since I thought Vista
was HAL independent I could use the same image for Dell Latitude D630, but i
get the BSOD on the machine..
I didnt know if you could assist in troubleshooting..

thanks

 

[Kerry Brown]

thanks Kerry!

I am not sure if you play with .wim files and BDD2007 , but we have some
Dell Latitude D620's that i made a custom .wim for, and since I thought
Vista
was HAL independent I could use the same image for Dell Latitude D630, but
i
get the BSOD on the machine..
I didnt know if you could assist in troubleshooting..

I haven't played with wim files since the beta of Vista. Post the BSOD. It
may give us a clue as to what is happening. Are you using the WAIK?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...7D-F12C-4676-917F-05D9DE73ADA4&displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6D-15F3-4284-9123-679830D629F2&displaylang=en

 

[Kerry Brown]

That the beauty of .WIM files. You can add drivers directly to the image
rather than adding them to the computer and recreating the image.