Vista wont load just goes to a black screen

[Tony Campbell]

A couple of hours after a Windows update, i had a crash wich i had to shut
down my pc but it didnt complete the shut down, so had to do it with the
power button.
Now every time i try to boot up it will get as far as the windows
corporation screen with the sliding bar, then it just goes black and nothing
after that.
I have tried various things....

1. safe modes(dont work)
2. booting from vista disk(dont work)
3. have tested all hardware(all passed)
4. system repair(just freezes)
5. Full pc factory restore(ran for 18 hours no change of screen)

And a few others and nothing works, iam no pc geek so can someone please
help iam going out of my mind here

 

[AlexB]

This is the option of the last resort as it comes to salvaging your data and
OS.

Turn the machine off, turn it back on and IMMEDIATELY press two keys: CTRL +
F6. If you hear a distress series of beeps (around 5/sec) keep pressing for
about 1 min. After that release F6 but keep pressing Ctrl for a while.

At this point the MS Windows Boot Console (CMOS screen) should appear and
offer you choices. Choose Boot in Safe Mode With Internet.

Now, that combination Ctrl+F6 is maker specific. It worked for my DELL
towers. Other manufacturers reportedly have other "secret" codes.

You may try Alt, Del, PgUp, PgDn instead of Ctrl. Also F6 is not cast in
concrete. You may try other function keys. Some machine may require only one
key to be pressed. Every machine MUST have a code like this. It took me
about 10 min to find mine.

 

[Tony Campbell]

If you mean just pressing F8 and clicking on safe mode with networking i have
tried that and it just gets to crcdisk.sys then stops working.

 

[John Barnes]

May be too late, but have you tried last known good. How far do you get
with the Vista DVD? Can you do start-up repair? Are you running the
restore from a partition or from a restore disk? What was on the screen
when it stopped changing?

 

[Tony Campbell]

last known repair gives me a list of 3 restore points before the updates but
when i click on any of them it says there is a corrupt OS file in c drive and
it tells me to check the disk for errors which then also freezes
Iam supposed to have a seperate back up space on my hard drive but dont know
how to run the factory restore from my back up
on the complete pc restore on the vista disk it comes up no valid back up
locations could be found
memory diagnostics are all fine but cant seem to get the pc to want to do
anything
right

 

[AlexB]

Tony, please read my post CAREFULLY. It is from my own experience. I've
never mentioned F8. Where did you get it? I salvaged two systems this way.

I will try to find the website that served for me as the springboard

 

[NoStop]

Tony, please read my post CAREFULLY. It is from my own experience. I've
never mentioned F8. Where did you get it? I salvaged two systems this way.

I will try to find the website that served for me as the springboard

Careful AlexB, they drained the pool when they put out Vista.

Cheers.


--
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Proprietary Software: a 20th Century software business model.

Q: What OS is built for lusers?
A: Which one requires running lusermgr.msc to create them?

Contact AlexB to find out how to "delouse" your Vista system.

 

[Tony Campbell]

well i have tried a good few combination of buttons with no joy going back to
the F8 button i get a menu listing
Repair your computer.
safe mode
safe mode with networking
safe mode with command prompt
enable boot logging
enable low resolution
last know good config
debugging mode
start windows normally

most of these options dont work and the pc will just freeze!

 

[John Barnes]

Last known good is one of the items on the F8 menu screen (along with the
safe modes etc.) Read your manual for how to restore from either your
restore partition or from the restore disk. You might try the low
resolution start also. Have you tried the start-up repair, not restore?