Running Vista Home Premium 32-bit, SP1.
Vista will not boot normally. I get to the black screen just before the Welcome, and then... nothing. Just a black screen.
I CAN start in safe mode with networking, however. I disabled EVERYTHING in the msconfig startup, as well as all non-Microsoft service, to no avail.
When I run ComboFix, I get the msg 'ComboFix is preparing to run', followed by 'Acess Denied. Administrator permissions are need to use the selected options. Use an administrator command prompt to complete these tasks'. I did right click on the CF icon on my desktop, and selected 'run as administrator' but got the same result.
If I just let it run as is, I get the usual 'Scanning for infected files... This typically doesn't take more than 10 minutes, etc...', but NOTHING ever happens for at least 15 minutes after which ComboFix finally does start. However, while its running through the 50 stages, embedded in those stages is the occasional ''Access Denied. Administrator permissions are needed....".
The completion of CF and subsequent restart did absolutely nothing to change the boot problem.
I do have a MS Vista install disk, and I've run Startup repair. No change.
Anyway, I have continued to play with safe mode & the vista boot disk, running sfc /scannow, running chkdsk /r, and running a series of bootrec commands at the command prompt accessed from the Vista boot disk, and still nothing....
I've gone into Event viewer after an unsuccessful attempt at normal booting, and I see the msg:
The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043c from line 45 of d:\vistasp1_gdr\com\complus\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp.
Could someone please give me some guidance?
Vista will not boot normally. I get to the black screen just before the Welcome, and then... nothing. Just a black screen.
I CAN start in safe mode with networking, however. I disabled EVERYTHING in the msconfig startup, as well as all non-Microsoft service, to no avail.
When I run ComboFix, I get the msg 'ComboFix is preparing to run', followed by 'Acess Denied. Administrator permissions are need to use the selected options. Use an administrator command prompt to complete these tasks'. I did right click on the CF icon on my desktop, and selected 'run as administrator' but got the same result.
If I just let it run as is, I get the usual 'Scanning for infected files... This typically doesn't take more than 10 minutes, etc...', but NOTHING ever happens for at least 15 minutes after which ComboFix finally does start. However, while its running through the 50 stages, embedded in those stages is the occasional ''Access Denied. Administrator permissions are needed....".
The completion of CF and subsequent restart did absolutely nothing to change the boot problem.
I do have a MS Vista install disk, and I've run Startup repair. No change.
Anyway, I have continued to play with safe mode & the vista boot disk, running sfc /scannow, running chkdsk /r, and running a series of bootrec commands at the command prompt accessed from the Vista boot disk, and still nothing....
I've gone into Event viewer after an unsuccessful attempt at normal booting, and I see the msg:
The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043c from line 45 of d:\vistasp1_gdr\com\complus\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp.
Could someone please give me some guidance?
