Vista - Vista won't boot up normally but safe mode will work.

Okay, they wouldn't let me do the first Vaio update because they won't allow the Windows Installer to go through and the video card one didn't work because they said that they didn't detect it on my computer for some reason. So back to square one~

Does anyone think that this could be repaired with the Vista DVD or would a clean re-install end up working better?

I'm very tempted to just burn a recovery disk from the Microsoft website but I'm insure if that'll fix my problems.

a clean install is always better than a repair but you could try the repair first and she if that fixes the porblem if not than you could always do a clean install.

word of advice though, buckup everything you want to keep before you do either one.

Hey, Fadedrs.
The repair didn’t work but I actually have an idea. I don’t think that there is anything wrong with the video card or anything but I think that I just have some freaked out computer virus. Do you have any programs that I can download to try and possibly figure out what the virus is and weed it out before doing a clean re-install?

I recently ran a VAIO Hardware Diagnostics and these were my results:

= CPU Test Start =

CPU Test 1 OK
CPU Test 2 OK
CPU Test 3 OK
CPU Test 4 OK
CPU Test 5 OK
CPU Test 6 OK
CPU Test 7 OK
CPU Test 8 OK
CPU Test 9 OK

= No error was detected. =

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= Memory test start =

Memory access Test OK

= No error was detected. =


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= Video Test start =

Video Test #1 Failed
Video Test #2 Failed
Video Test #3 Failed

= Errors were detected. Verify that the hardware accelerator is set to the maximum value. --- (E-VIDEO-008) =


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= CF/PC Card Controller Test start =

CF/PC Card Controller Test OK

= No error was detected. =


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= HDD Test Start =

Drive 0

Linear Seek Test OK

= No error was detected. =

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Errors were detected on this VAIO.

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so there is a issue with your video card!

you could download

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Alrighty! Installing now and I'll get back to you on the results.

sounds good hope it works. if it does not a clean install should get rid of everything. just make sure you do a full format and not a quick format.

Do you guys have any tutorials on clean installs and full formatting? I used to do it all the time on XP but this is my first time doing it on Vista.