Blue Screen constantly rebooting. Please help

Please help!

I put together a PC with brand new parts and installed Vista Ultimate about
a year ago. Besides for waiting for driver updates at the begining when
vista first came out, I have not had a problem with vista until yesterday.

I kept getting blue screen, it would reboot, I could get it to safe mode,
the Microsoft prompt would come up to check for solutions, but nothing came
of that. I have a Radeon 1600x and I think after one of the restarts it
tried to fix it but it didnt work. And it blue screened and restarted.

I am to the point now where it allows me to select what mode to go into but
once I select safe mode it goes through the command prompts and eventually
just restarts again. I thought it may be the graphics card, I took that out
but I still get the same issue.

Do you think my Hard drive is the problem now? Or is my PC toast?

If you press F8 during the 'black screen' portion of a restart, right after
the BIOS screen, you get the recovery menu. You may be able to use System
Restore, or other repair option.

One thing I would try is a command prompt run of:
chkdsk /r

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"Eugene" <> wrote in message
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> Please help!
>
> I put together a PC with brand new parts and installed Vista Ultimate
> about
> a year ago. Besides for waiting for driver updates at the begining when
> vista first came out, I have not had a problem with vista until yesterday.
>
> I kept getting blue screen, it would reboot, I could get it to safe mode,
> the Microsoft prompt would come up to check for solutions, but nothing
> came
> of that. I have a Radeon 1600x and I think after one of the restarts it
> tried to fix it but it didnt work. And it blue screened and restarted.
>
> I am to the point now where it allows me to select what mode to go into
> but
> once I select safe mode it goes through the command prompts and eventually
> just restarts again. I thought it may be the graphics card, I took that
> out
> but I still get the same issue.
>
> Do you think my Hard drive is the problem now? Or is my PC toast?
>

Thanks Mark,

F8 was what I was looking for.

I didnt get me to a recovery menu(let me select if I want to boot with
floopy, DVD, or hard dreive) but allowed me to access my vista disk DVD to
repair pc. I ran through a couple times and it allowed me to do a system
restore. I was able to get to my desktop(while hooked up to my PC monitor.
So I thought I was in the clear.

I then hooked up to my LCD TV(via HDMI). After I started it up, I got a
blue screen.
After a reboot I was able to get to my desktop in safe mode, and then i did
another system restore for a week from today. And so far so good. I
disabled system restart when the blue screen comes up so I can see what it
says next time.

A prompt came up saying that one of the things I installed caused this whole
problem

So far so good.

Do you think i should install vista's sp1? I have a feeling that is what
caused this whole thing.
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"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> If you press F8 during the 'black screen' portion of a restart, right after
> the BIOS screen, you get the recovery menu. You may be able to use System
> Restore, or other repair option.
>
> One thing I would try is a command prompt run of:
> chkdsk /r
>
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> "Eugene" <> wrote in message
> news:F0EFBD48-47D4-4052-AED1-...
> > Please help!
> >
> > I put together a PC with brand new parts and installed Vista Ultimate
> > about
> > a year ago. Besides for waiting for driver updates at the begining when
> > vista first came out, I have not had a problem with vista until yesterday.
> >
> > I kept getting blue screen, it would reboot, I could get it to safe mode,
> > the Microsoft prompt would come up to check for solutions, but nothing
> > came
> > of that. I have a Radeon 1600x and I think after one of the restarts it
> > tried to fix it but it didnt work. And it blue screened and restarted.
> >
> > I am to the point now where it allows me to select what mode to go into
> > but
> > once I select safe mode it goes through the command prompts and eventually
> > just restarts again. I thought it may be the graphics card, I took that
> > out
> > but I still get the same issue.
> >
> > Do you think my Hard drive is the problem now? Or is my PC toast?
> >