Seems to me that a less disruptive way to verify you don't have these types
of hardware problems would be to boot from a few types of disks like BartPE
and run diagnostics. If you don't get similar failures, your memory & power
supply are probably OK. My Vista Compaq allows me to create a PC Doctor
bootable CD which tests most of my hardware.
-Paul Randall
"Charlie Tame" <> wrote in message
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> Cisco wrote:
>> Whenever I try to boot my computer now, a blue screen appears right
>> before the welcome screen. At this point my PC reboots and so the
>> loop continues. All I have been able to get from the blue screen is
>> "Fatal Error" and "computer has been shut down," as it appears for
>> less than a second.
>>
>> I have tried using the Windows Vista repair on the DVD, including the
>> following commands under Windows RE Command Prompt:
>> bootsec /fixmbr
>> bootsec /fixboot
>> bootsec /rebuildbcd
>> Unfortunately the problem still exists. No new hardware has been
>> added and after testing there don't seem to be any faults with the
>> hard drive. I am about to test the memory now.
>>
>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Cisco
>> --
>> Windows Vista Ultimate
>> Dell Dimension 4600
>> Pentium 4 3.2GHz Processor
>> 1GB RAM
>> 160GB and 500GB SATA Hard Drives
>>
>
>
> Not sure what that means because a hardware fault can give numerous
> deceptive messages.
>
> I assume this just started to happen and previously the machine was okay.
>
> Could be - the CPU fan has failed and the CPU is reaching critical temp as
> the load increases. Memory has gone bad so as soon as the system tries to
> use it it falls over. A driver for the Motherboard has been damaged, or
> just possibly a video card driver. Power supply has gone bad. Motherboard
> capacitors fail sometimes, that would probably look like it's been hot and
> / or swelled up or even burst.
>
> If you are taking the case off check the fans first and memory... easiest.
> Get a memory test program, the BIOS memory things is not really good
> enough. If the 1G is in the form of 2 X 512 you could try them one at a
> time, maybe only one is bad and that would be a clue. If so get 2 1GB
> sticks at the same time, same spec, it will go better with 2G anyway. You
> can try unplugging drives and things leaving only the HD with the OS on it
> but that won't reduce the power much so not a good check on the power
> supply really. Won't hurt to re-seat the connectors though, but it goes
> without saying be careful with connectors so no pins get bent.
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