jonah

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:58:38 -0800, Roy <Roy@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>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
>roysoto@yahoo.com

yep its an update, are you using Auto Updates and are you downloading
drivers from MSFT updates,

Get yourself a copy of Acronis v10, install Vista then AC 10 then make
a full drive image of Vista. When you have an image make a start up
recovery CD via the Acronis Menus. Now you can re-install it from an
image in 10 minutes by sticking the recovery disk in and booting it.

Next go to Windows Updates but do not get everything, install them one
at a time and re-boot till you find the problem. Then leave that
particular update alone.

Personally I always make an image of my OS partitions whenever I
upadte anything, its not as painfull when it goes wrong.

Jonah