Can't boot up Vista in any mode, recovery CD doesn't work

snorlax2

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Hi,

Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving and managed to get some good deals on black Friday.

I'm having problems with my Gateway P-7811FX. I was playing a game and the computer completely froze. After powering down and trying to reboot, I get the Gateway load screen, Microsoft loading bar, then black screen with _ in the upper left. This always happens when I try restarting normally. On some occasions I get the white cursor afterwards, but thats it.

Sometimes I will get the boot unsuccessful screen and the option for Windows repair or Windows normally. Neither works and results are the same. On one attempt I received the following message

STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
The registry cannot load the hive (file):
\SystemRoot\System32\Config\COMPONENTS
or its log or alternate. It is corrupt, absent, or not writable

On a second attempt I received this message

STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error}
The verification of a knownDLL failed. system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000221
(0x0068cba0 0x00000000).

I have tried booting into safe mode or last known good configuration, I end up with the black screen and _ or white cursor

I tried using the recovery cd and after hitting a button to boot from cd, I get the windows installation bar, then again it gets to the black screen with white cursor.

Also, when I navigate the bios menu, it's sluggish and sometimes takes a couple of seconds to register keystrokes.

If anyone can help me I'd greatly appreciate it.
 

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I suggest starting all troubleshooting with the following diagnostic tests. They'll save you a lot of time and heartache if there is a hardware failure, and you'll have the disks on hand in case you need them in the future:
H/W Diagnostics:
Please start by running these bootable hardware diagnostics:
Memory Diagnostics (read the details at the link)
HD Diagnostic (read the details at the link)
 

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