Hi all
At the weekend I purchased (via online download from Microsoft website) Windows Vista Home Premium SP1.
My son built me a media PC using a motherboard and processor he already had. I purchased brand new SATA hard drives (4 x 1 terrabyte).
He built the PC, loaded vista and it all worked beautifully, except we couldn't get the media player to display properly. We decided that as we had already invested a fair bit into this system we would buy a new motherboard which included onboard graphics that could display HDMI through our new TV. Motherboard and new ram arrived today and all duly installed. It all boots up but gets to the 'windows won't start' screen - and lists the options choose safe mode etc., and it seems to load windows drivers (lists all of them on the screen) and then just goes round in circles and does the whole thing again.
I tried to do a repair your computer, but that doesn't work either.
My other son tells me he thinks that as it is considered a new pc (motherboard change means most parts are onboard and therefore Vista thinks it's a whole new PC) I will have to do a complete reinstall - is this the case?
One other to note is that we have tried using both VGA and HDMI display outputs, but the problem remains the same with both.
Anyway - this is my setup
Motherboard - Asus P5Q-EM
Ram 4GB
Hard Drives - 4 x 1 TB
Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 (full version, not upgrade or OEM)
Display screen is a Toshiba 40ZF355DB
I hope this is enough information for someone to help me.
(PS. two of the 1 TB drives are set up in a raid mirror configuration as I am a photographer and this is my storage and back up for photographs/slideshows etc)...but I don't think that makes any difference.
At the weekend I purchased (via online download from Microsoft website) Windows Vista Home Premium SP1.
My son built me a media PC using a motherboard and processor he already had. I purchased brand new SATA hard drives (4 x 1 terrabyte).
He built the PC, loaded vista and it all worked beautifully, except we couldn't get the media player to display properly. We decided that as we had already invested a fair bit into this system we would buy a new motherboard which included onboard graphics that could display HDMI through our new TV. Motherboard and new ram arrived today and all duly installed. It all boots up but gets to the 'windows won't start' screen - and lists the options choose safe mode etc., and it seems to load windows drivers (lists all of them on the screen) and then just goes round in circles and does the whole thing again.
I tried to do a repair your computer, but that doesn't work either.
My other son tells me he thinks that as it is considered a new pc (motherboard change means most parts are onboard and therefore Vista thinks it's a whole new PC) I will have to do a complete reinstall - is this the case?
One other to note is that we have tried using both VGA and HDMI display outputs, but the problem remains the same with both.
Anyway - this is my setup
Motherboard - Asus P5Q-EM
Ram 4GB
Hard Drives - 4 x 1 TB
Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 (full version, not upgrade or OEM)
Display screen is a Toshiba 40ZF355DB
I hope this is enough information for someone to help me.
(PS. two of the 1 TB drives are set up in a raid mirror configuration as I am a photographer and this is my storage and back up for photographs/slideshows etc)...but I don't think that makes any difference.
