Vista - Startup Repair

Ok, I hope it goes well.

Problem solved. I've inserted an original vista dvd and did the repair.

Thanks for the help!

LOL, that's one way.

Thank you for posting back your results.

Shawn

Thank you very much for the tutorial, it works, yesterday I downloaded the necessary file and burned the .iso image to CD. Today I tested it, well I went as far as the screen that shows all the options you can do, I didn't carry on to try out the repair as I didn't have a problem but I have all the options showing so hopefully it would work.

This site and the tutorials you provide are much appreciated by this old lady

You are very welcome Joan. I'm happy to hear that it works for you so far, but it should work completely since it got that far.

Shawn

Hey,

First of all thanks for setting up this forum.

Recently I built a computer and installed vista home premium 64. It was running great for a couple weeks until my computer crashed and when I tried to restart vista I got the BSOD. I tried booting up in safe mode and also got the BSOD. I checked out your tutorial, and created the recovery disk. When I boot off the recovery disk it gets to the "windows loading" screen and then again I get the BSOD. I've tried changing some things in the bios (based on some googled forum posts) but I still get the BSOD mostly with the message "Your motherboard is not ACPI compatible."

EDIT: I went into the BIOS and activated every ACPI feature it had, and now when I boot up i get the error "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"

I've tried running my recovery disk on my old computer (windows XP), and it boots fine and I get get to Step 3 in the tutorial (which I could not on my Vista machine). I also have a Mythbuntu 8.04 live cd which I am able to boot on the Vista machine.

At this point I'm stumped, my only guess is that my hardware somehow became incompatible with vista after it was installed?

Russell

My system:
Q6600 quad core processor 2.4 ghz
ASRock X48TurboTwins-WiFi LGA 775 Intel X48
ATI radeon 4870
4 gigs corsair OCZ DDR2 1066

Hello Russell, and welcome to Vista Forums.

This link may be able to help you troubleshoot the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error message and hopefully fix it.

Stop 0×0A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL — MAXIMUMpcguides


If this does not help, then check to make sure that you have the DVD listed first in the boot order in BIOS. Next, use it to do a System Restore, using Method Two in this tutorial below, with a restore point dated before this problem.

System Restore - How to

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Okay Shawn, beam me up into your all-knowing alien spaceship!

Wracking my brain here. I have a Dell XPS 420, processor, memory big and nice -- NVIDIA 8800gt card -- issue: getting blue screen errors on startup (sort of a dashed lines pattern across Dell and Microsoft screens, then just the lines, then blank, then crash dump blue screen).

I've run every diagnostic I can find, tested everything -- found a few minor issues, and infrequently I can boot up fine. However, more often than not, especially if the computer is turned off, I can't reboot and get the error.

Okay, so obviously I end up in startup repair. It seems to run a "short" repair, that never works (all this via safe mode) -- but in a long version, usually triggered automatically by Vista, it seems to work. Then I can boot for another day or so before it goes "bad" on me again.

Recently I got Startup RepairV2 error, autofollower, and tons of junk, including no root cause and unknown. What does all that mean....and of course, despite that, it managed to reboot.

I'm willing to restore to factory default if that sounds like it would help. I've tried all the tricks of switching items off, updated every driver I could find, unplug all USB, virus scan, etc.

Bottom line, does it sound like software or hardware to you.....and any advice would be SUPER appreciated.

Hello Adam,

Are you able to startup in Safe Mode?

It sounds like it could be a bad driver. Possibly the video driver. I would double check that you have all of the latest driver versions installed including your motherboard's chipset and BIOS. You may need to redownload some of them if they have become corrupted.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I can still boot in safe mode -- never a problem there.

Will update BIOS and chipset....never done that, before....always learning something new!

Thanks -- will let you know.