Vista Won't Boot

[Guest]

I have Vista and it has stopped loading to my computer. I have run all the
diagnostics, all the repairs (they have all run more than 24 hours without
change) and tried to reinstall (which I've let run for 24 hours without
change). There is no change to my computer status; it still won't run, Vista
is no longer present, and I've spent hours on the phone with Dell running all
this as well as rerunning it on my own. I have only 1 hdd. Vista came
preinstalled and worked fine until 11/16. It ran all my weekly scans; when I
turned my computer back on the next day, Vista did not load. There were no
error messages. Can anyone help me; I'm seeing similar but not quite the
same issues on the forum. I'm on someone else's computer and I have limited
access because my computer won't work.

Specifics: I've run the hdd diagnostics - all pass. I've run all the
hardware configuration tests and all pass. My BIOS works fine. I've tried
reinstalling from cd/dvd that comes with system - it has run for 24 hours
without a change in status. The 'Attempting repairs' has also run for 16
hours without change in status. I've spoken to Dell, and now I come here.
Again, all the tests and diagnostics tell me my hardware's fine. The
software simply is not working nor is it repairing or reinstalling as it
should. Any suggestions? Ask any questions you may need to get the
information required to give a response. Do NOT post a link unless
absolutely necessary to explain your procedure. Thank you!

Oh, and if this is not the appropriate discussion group, please be aware
that there are two others I will post on because I simply don't know what
this would fall under.

 

[Mr. Arnold]

I have Vista and it has stopped loading to my computer. I have run all the
diagnostics, all the repairs (they have all run more than 24 hours without
change) and tried to reinstall (which I've let run for 24 hours without
change). There is no change to my computer status; it still won't run,
Vista
is no longer present, and I've spent hours on the phone with Dell running
all
this as well as rerunning it on my own. I have only 1 hdd. Vista came
preinstalled and worked fine until 11/16. It ran all my weekly scans;
when I
turned my computer back on the next day, Vista did not load. There were
no
error messages. Can anyone help me; I'm seeing similar but not quite the
same issues on the forum. I'm on someone else's computer and I have
limited
access because my computer won't work.

Specifics: I've run the hdd diagnostics - all pass. I've run all the
hardware configuration tests and all pass. My BIOS works fine. I've tried
reinstalling from cd/dvd that comes with system - it has run for 24 hours
without a change in status. The 'Attempting repairs' has also run for 16
hours without change in status. I've spoken to Dell, and now I come here.
Again, all the tests and diagnostics tell me my hardware's fine. The
software simply is not working nor is it repairing or reinstalling as it
should. Any suggestions? Ask any questions you may need to get the
information required to give a response. Do NOT post a link unless
absolutely necessary to explain your procedure. Thank you!

Oh, and if this is not the appropriate discussion group, please be aware
that there are two others I will post on because I simply don't know what
this would fall under.

You may not what to hear this. But if I were in this situation, I would go
buy a retail version of Vista or XP (if you don't feel confident with Vista
anymore), boot off of the install DVD, format the HDD and install the O/S.
Maybe, with the retail version of the Vista install DVD, you might be able
to do a repair install so that you don't loose anything existing on the HDD.

 

[Guest]

If you bought the computer with vista pre-installed by Dell, it is Dell's
software,and hardware. Dell out their own combination of crap in it with the
OS.

Have you tried a new video card?

 

[Guest]

I have Vista and it has stopped loading to my computer. I have run all the
diagnostics, all the repairs (they have all run more than 24 hours without
change) and tried to reinstall (which I've let run for 24 hours without
change). There is no change to my computer status; it still won't run, Vista
is no longer present, and I've spent hours on the phone with Dell running all
this as well as rerunning it on my own. I have only 1 hdd. Vista came
preinstalled and worked fine until 11/16. It ran all my weekly scans; when I
turned my computer back on the next day, Vista did not load. There were no
error messages. Can anyone help me; I'm seeing similar but not quite the
same issues on the forum. I'm on someone else's computer and I have limited
access because my computer won't work.

Specifics: I've run the hdd diagnostics - all pass. I've run all the
hardware configuration tests and all pass. My BIOS works fine. I've tried
reinstalling from cd/dvd that comes with system - it has run for 24 hours
without a change in status. The 'Attempting repairs' has also run for 16
hours without change in status. I've spoken to Dell, and now I come here.
Again, all the tests and diagnostics tell me my hardware's fine. The
software simply is not working nor is it repairing or reinstalling as it
should. Any suggestions? Ask any questions you may need to get the
information required to give a response. Do NOT post a link unless
absolutely necessary to explain your procedure. Thank you!

Oh, and if this is not the appropriate discussion group, please be aware
that there are two others I will post on because I simply don't know what
this would fall under.

I have had the same problem as you recently. Around the same date (november
16th or so) I had problems booting up Vista. I bought an Emachines computer
about 8 months ago, and everything was working fine until shut down the
computer and tried to reboot after a day or so. It wouldn't boot.. I tried to
run the diagnostics and tried the system repair...to no avail it wouldn't
boot. I had to wipe Vista off and reformat my hard drive. I then reinstalled
the disk that came with my computer that had the operating system. But then
again...after losing all of my stuff off my computer and reinstalling the
Vista, It wouldn't boot. I tried xp..nothing. Wouldn't boot.

You are not the only person here who has had this problem. I thought it
might have to do with the window's update that was recently released around
the same date. I haven't installed it yet and had told the computer to ignore
it. Until I know for sure what's going on here. Because..it worked just fine
until the November 16th update.

 

[Peter Foldes]

You have crossposted this to different newsgroups. Did you read the answers ? Particularly since you stated in your thread that you did many scans over the weekend and was told or should I say asked if you used a reg cleaner to clean the registry. Sure sounds like you did and it removed a needed line which most if not all reg cleaners set to automatically clean will do.
To get to your back up is not possible either.

What you might want to try is the following to get into your system and then get those back ups back in. The below KB is valid also for Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q307545

 

[John Barnes]

You don't provide any useful information to even start. How do you know
your BIOS works fine. Does it pass control to the MBR and does it pass
control to the boot record? How do you know? What messages do you get?
What is happening when it stops? Can you see POST or do you see some idiot
display? What did you use to do the tests you talk about. I also realise
that the Dell people are not the brightest at the first level, but they can
usually walk a novice user thru getting the system to factory condition, so
what happened when you were working with them, what did they have you do,
etc.

 

[John Barnes]

I hope you have learned the importance of having a complete backup. It is
too late now, but the first thing you should have done, if it was indeed
caused by the update, is to do a system restore procedure from the install
DVD. As to using XP, you need to make sure that you have the needed drivers