Ketzl's Dad

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:26:48 -0500, jonah wrote:

> 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

I'm not being flip, but: when do you get your *work* done?

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