Re: Vista startup lock-up/0xc00000e9

"Sefk" <> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> I recently pulled a friend's ASUS G50V running on Windows Vista Home
> Premium x64 out to try and repair.

Couldn't your friend give you a clue or some clues as to what might have
preceded this condition?

> The notebook itself is about 14
> months old, but was only running for about 3 before it began giving him
> problems. He shelved it and bought a new one, and recently offered it
> to me if I could get it running..but post 12 month warrenty and lack of
> startup/backup discs is giving me hell. Anyways, here's what it's
> doing, and what I've tried so far.

Did you try F8?

>
> Specs:
>
> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5750 @ 2.00GHz Processor
> 4096MB System Memory
> Grand total of four programs installed on it. Spysweeper, FFXI, Yahoo!
> Messenger, and AIM.
>
> The first time I booted it up, it started just fine. Got to the
> desktop, seemed to be running at a snails pace, but running. It slowed
> down over a 30 second period until it came to a standstill, except for
> the mouse. Mouse worked fine, caps lock/numlock respond, but everything
> else was frozen.
>
> Restart in safe mode, same situation.
>
> After restarting again, quickly opening up taskbar and shutting down,
> it went to "Windows is shutting down" blackscreen, progress bar moved
> for about half an hour and never shut down. Upon reloading, desktop
> never came up, computer was stuck on Vista loading screen. Stayed this
> way for 5-6 restarts, so I went into Bios and loaded Manufacture
> Defualts, which put me back on square one.
>
> On the screen loading Bios, there was a line of "Cannot detect TPM
> device!", but it doesn't come up every time. I Googled this and found
> little to no information on it, and what there was, you needed to be
> able to access program files to fix it.
>
> At some point on restart(at desktop), an error showed up on the Yahoo!
> Messenger icon, computer froze up before I could write it down, but was
> "corrupt file xxx" and "please run DskChkr"; sorry I can't give more
> info about that. Ran Disc Checker which removed and replaced three
> files, but seemed to have no effect on restart.
>
> After all this I went into Windows Boot Manager > Windows Setup [EMS
> Enabled], took me to black screen "Windows is loading files..." which
> gets to about 30% and stops. I then get:
>
> [Windows has encounted a problem communicating with a decice connected
> to your computer.
>
> This error can be caused by unplugging a removable storage device such
> as an external usb drive wile the device is in use, or by faulty
> hardware such as a hard drive or CD-ROM drive that is failing. Make sure
> any removable storage is properly connected and then restart your
> computer.
>
> If you continue to receive this error message, contact the hardware
> manufacturer.
>
>
> Status: 0x00000e9
> Info: An unexpected I/O error has occured.]
>
> And at this point I'm stuck. No matter what, it will not go past this.
> If I restart it comes to this automatically, If I continue or escape it
> brings me right back to "Windows is loading files..."
>
> If any of you are still awake by the end of this post, any advice? Is
> this something I simply wont be able to solve without a new OS, or is
> there an alternative. I don't have a problem buying a new Vista Home
> Premium, but I'd like to get it running sooner than later, and a new OS
> is a few months from now. If anyone has any suggestions, please assist,

If you tried long enough, you might get somewhere.
Usually Vista has a way of fixing itself, the trick is to find it, unless
the system is badly infected, but only your friend could tell you about
that.

Harry.

> and thank you for your time.
>
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