Hey guys, this problem is really getting to me. I miss having my pc, so any help will be very much appreciated; at this point, it's become personal for me.
Recently my PC suffered a heinous power source failure, rendering it unable to turn on. I sent it in to get repaired, whereupon I was told that my registry had also become corrupt, and a new OS was needed. Reluctantly, I acquiesced.
I got my PC back, fired it up, and it worked. All my old files were there, although it was a fresh install of Vista, so all my old files were in the usual "windows.old" folder. Vista had to download a lot of updates (over 120, in fact) and I shut the PC down, while they got about their merry buisiness of installing and configuring as per usual when one shuts down one's PC. About 15 minutes later, I needed to use my computer for something and hit the power switch- it was at this point I realised that my pc had still been on- configuring or installing my updates, most likely (to be fair, there were a lot of them).
Any attempt to boot my PC after that resulted in a BSOD with text on it that flashed away too quickly to read, whereupon the boot process would start over again from scratch, effectively stuck in an endless loop.
I got my Vista 32 CD and decided to repair the install- I got an error message saying that it was not capable of repairing the install. I decided to reinstall then- after all, nothing I hadn't done before.
The first install attempt took about an hour and a half, and ended with the PC booting to a blank black screen, whereupon I could see and move the mouse pointer, but that was it. Pressing ctrl+alt+del had no effect, although pressing shift 5 times did cause a bleep, it did not present me with a window asking to turn on or off sticky keys. I looked online and it seemed that my USB webcam might have been to blame- I unplugged it, powered the PC down and restarted it- During the boot I received the error menu stating that windows had not shut down properly. Choosing safe mode caused the pc to get stuck seemingly forever on a "please wait" message, and choosing normal or last known good config both got as far as the green sliding progress bar that lets you know vista is loading.... and then seemingly staying stuck there (though the bar was still animating, nothing was happening). Attempting to repair would then get stuck at the "searching for problems" stage.
I attempted a second reinstall(this one took 3-4 hours), to identical results (got as far as black screen w/cursor, stuck forever, rebooted, windows did not shut down correctly, and then safe mode and normal both hang)
Any suggestions? This is really frustrating, having spent money to get it fixed, having it work once, and then blow up in my face. My pc needs to be working soon to get college assignments done, so it's extremely important. I'm not very computer literate, though I can follow almost any instruction, if you give it step-by-step.
Thank you so much in advance.
Recently my PC suffered a heinous power source failure, rendering it unable to turn on. I sent it in to get repaired, whereupon I was told that my registry had also become corrupt, and a new OS was needed. Reluctantly, I acquiesced.
I got my PC back, fired it up, and it worked. All my old files were there, although it was a fresh install of Vista, so all my old files were in the usual "windows.old" folder. Vista had to download a lot of updates (over 120, in fact) and I shut the PC down, while they got about their merry buisiness of installing and configuring as per usual when one shuts down one's PC. About 15 minutes later, I needed to use my computer for something and hit the power switch- it was at this point I realised that my pc had still been on- configuring or installing my updates, most likely (to be fair, there were a lot of them).
Any attempt to boot my PC after that resulted in a BSOD with text on it that flashed away too quickly to read, whereupon the boot process would start over again from scratch, effectively stuck in an endless loop.
I got my Vista 32 CD and decided to repair the install- I got an error message saying that it was not capable of repairing the install. I decided to reinstall then- after all, nothing I hadn't done before.
The first install attempt took about an hour and a half, and ended with the PC booting to a blank black screen, whereupon I could see and move the mouse pointer, but that was it. Pressing ctrl+alt+del had no effect, although pressing shift 5 times did cause a bleep, it did not present me with a window asking to turn on or off sticky keys. I looked online and it seemed that my USB webcam might have been to blame- I unplugged it, powered the PC down and restarted it- During the boot I received the error menu stating that windows had not shut down properly. Choosing safe mode caused the pc to get stuck seemingly forever on a "please wait" message, and choosing normal or last known good config both got as far as the green sliding progress bar that lets you know vista is loading.... and then seemingly staying stuck there (though the bar was still animating, nothing was happening). Attempting to repair would then get stuck at the "searching for problems" stage.
I attempted a second reinstall(this one took 3-4 hours), to identical results (got as far as black screen w/cursor, stuck forever, rebooted, windows did not shut down correctly, and then safe mode and normal both hang)
Any suggestions? This is really frustrating, having spent money to get it fixed, having it work once, and then blow up in my face. My pc needs to be working soon to get college assignments done, so it's extremely important. I'm not very computer literate, though I can follow almost any instruction, if you give it step-by-step.
Thank you so much in advance.
