Vista crashes on boot

I have done a clean install of Vista Ultimate (64), and since then, everytime
I start my computer, it fails to boot correctly. It passes the BIOS page,
starts the animated bar at the bottom of the page, and a few seconds later,
the screen goes blank, and my VDU gives the messgae, "NO SIGNAL" After about
a minute, the system reboots to the BIOS page again and continues up to the
animated screen, and stops again. After it self boots for a second time, I
get the SAFE MODE option screen. If I leave it on START WINDOWS NORMALLY, and
leave it to complete the 30s count down, It boots again, and then completes
the boot into Vista. If at the count down screen, I press enter, it goes into
a boot loop that doesn't stop until I press the reset button on my box. Any
Idea's? I have done a re-install twice and problem continues.

What was it like BEFORE you performed the clean install?
And also,what LED to that installation?I mean,what was the reason behind it?

"David Brickell" <> wrote in message
news:0F477D3A-AE4B-4CCD-9A1F-...
I have done a clean install of Vista Ultimate (64), and since then,
everytime
I start my computer, it fails to boot correctly. It passes the BIOS page,
starts the animated bar at the bottom of the page, and a few seconds later,
the screen goes blank, and my VDU gives the messgae, "NO SIGNAL" After about
a minute, the system reboots to the BIOS page again and continues up to the
animated screen, and stops again. After it self boots for a second time, I
get the SAFE MODE option screen. If I leave it on START WINDOWS NORMALLY,
and
leave it to complete the 30s count down, It boots again, and then completes
the boot into Vista. If at the count down screen, I press enter, it goes
into
a boot loop that doesn't stop until I press the reset button on my box. Any
Idea's? I have done a re-install twice and problem continues.

David Brickell wrote:
> I have done a clean install of Vista Ultimate (64), and since then, everytime
> I start my computer, it fails to boot correctly. It passes the BIOS page,
> starts the animated bar at the bottom of the page, and a few seconds later,
> the screen goes blank, and my VDU gives the messgae, "NO SIGNAL" After about
> a minute, the system reboots to the BIOS page again and continues up to the
> animated screen, and stops again. After it self boots for a second time, I
> get the SAFE MODE option screen. If I leave it on START WINDOWS NORMALLY, and
> leave it to complete the 30s count down, It boots again, and then completes
> the boot into Vista. If at the count down screen, I press enter, it goes into
> a boot loop that doesn't stop until I press the reset button on my box. Any
> Idea's? I have done a re-install twice and problem continues.

Sounds like your video card is horked. First try reseating it and if
that doesn't work, use a known working video card. Of course, the
downside is that Vista may very well think that by changing your video
card, that you're a thief trying to install Vista on another computer
but welcome to the World of Windows.

Alias

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It ran perfectly. I did the clean install because I wanted to partition my
HD! I have not changed any hardware. This problem started before I had
installed any other software, drivers or updates. I have run chkdsk on the
partitions, and it is not reporting any problems. I have also run the boot
diagnostic tool on the setup disc, and it reports that there is nothing wrong
with my boot.

"Hiren" wrote:

> What was it like BEFORE you performed the clean install?
> And also,what LED to that installation?I mean,what was the reason behind it?
>
> "David Brickell" <> wrote in message
> news:0F477D3A-AE4B-4CCD-9A1F-...
> I have done a clean install of Vista Ultimate (64), and since then,
> everytime
> I start my computer, it fails to boot correctly. It passes the BIOS page,
> starts the animated bar at the bottom of the page, and a few seconds later,
> the screen goes blank, and my VDU gives the messgae, "NO SIGNAL" After about
> a minute, the system reboots to the BIOS page again and continues up to the
> animated screen, and stops again. After it self boots for a second time, I
> get the SAFE MODE option screen. If I leave it on START WINDOWS NORMALLY,
> and
> leave it to complete the 30s count down, It boots again, and then completes
> the boot into Vista. If at the count down screen, I press enter, it goes
> into
> a boot loop that doesn't stop until I press the reset button on my box. Any
> Idea's? I have done a re-install twice and problem continues.
>
>

It probably seems that while your previous installation was working,you had
made certain changes in the BIOS settings because of which a clean
installation is failing now.

"David Brickell" <> wrote in message
news:1E93E015-633E-4D31-8710-...
It ran perfectly. I did the clean install because I wanted to partition my
HD! I have not changed any hardware. This problem started before I had
installed any other software, drivers or updates. I have run chkdsk on the
partitions, and it is not reporting any problems. I have also run the boot
diagnostic tool on the setup disc, and it reports that there is nothing
wrong
with my boot.

"Hiren" wrote:

> What was it like BEFORE you performed the clean install?
> And also,what LED to that installation?I mean,what was the reason behind
> it?
>
> "David Brickell" <> wrote in
> message
> news:0F477D3A-AE4B-4CCD-9A1F-...
> I have done a clean install of Vista Ultimate (64), and since then,
> everytime
> I start my computer, it fails to boot correctly. It passes the BIOS page,
> starts the animated bar at the bottom of the page, and a few seconds
> later,
> the screen goes blank, and my VDU gives the messgae, "NO SIGNAL" After
> about
> a minute, the system reboots to the BIOS page again and continues up to
> the
> animated screen, and stops again. After it self boots for a second time, I
> get the SAFE MODE option screen. If I leave it on START WINDOWS NORMALLY,
> and
> leave it to complete the 30s count down, It boots again, and then
> completes
> the boot into Vista. If at the count down screen, I press enter, it goes
> into
> a boot loop that doesn't stop until I press the reset button on my box.
> Any
> Idea's? I have done a re-install twice and problem continues.
>
>

Try an In Place Upgrade (Vista's version of Repair Install) and see if the
issues persist. You boot into Windows, insert the Vista dvd, click on
Install now, and choose upgrade. It does not disturb your apps and files.

"David Brickell" <> wrote in message
news:1E93E015-633E-4D31-8710-...
> It ran perfectly. I did the clean install because I wanted to partition my
> HD! I have not changed any hardware. This problem started before I had
> installed any other software, drivers or updates. I have run chkdsk on the
> partitions, and it is not reporting any problems. I have also run the boot
> diagnostic tool on the setup disc, and it reports that there is nothing
> wrong
> with my boot.
>
> "Hiren" wrote:
>
>> What was it like BEFORE you performed the clean install?
>> And also,what LED to that installation?I mean,what was the reason behind
>> it?
>>
>> "David Brickell" <> wrote in
>> message
>> news:0F477D3A-AE4B-4CCD-9A1F-...
>> I have done a clean install of Vista Ultimate (64), and since then,
>> everytime
>> I start my computer, it fails to boot correctly. It passes the BIOS page,
>> starts the animated bar at the bottom of the page, and a few seconds
>> later,
>> the screen goes blank, and my VDU gives the messgae, "NO SIGNAL" After
>> about
>> a minute, the system reboots to the BIOS page again and continues up to
>> the
>> animated screen, and stops again. After it self boots for a second time,
>> I
>> get the SAFE MODE option screen. If I leave it on START WINDOWS NORMALLY,
>> and
>> leave it to complete the 30s count down, It boots again, and then
>> completes
>> the boot into Vista. If at the count down screen, I press enter, it goes
>> into
>> a boot loop that doesn't stop until I press the reset button on my box.
>> Any
>> Idea's? I have done a re-install twice and problem continues.
>>
>>

No, I did not make any changes to the BIOS!

"Hiren" wrote:

> It probably seems that while your previous installation was working,you had
> made certain changes in the BIOS settings because of which a clean
> installation is failing now.
>
> "David Brickell" <> wrote in message
> news:1E93E015-633E-4D31-8710-...
> It ran perfectly. I did the clean install because I wanted to partition my
> HD! I have not changed any hardware. This problem started before I had
> installed any other software, drivers or updates. I have run chkdsk on the
> partitions, and it is not reporting any problems. I have also run the boot
> diagnostic tool on the setup disc, and it reports that there is nothing
> wrong
> with my boot.
>
> "Hiren" wrote:
>
> > What was it like BEFORE you performed the clean install?
> > And also,what LED to that installation?I mean,what was the reason behind
> > it?
> >
> > "David Brickell" <> wrote in
> > message
> > news:0F477D3A-AE4B-4CCD-9A1F-...
> > I have done a clean install of Vista Ultimate (64), and since then,
> > everytime
> > I start my computer, it fails to boot correctly. It passes the BIOS page,
> > starts the animated bar at the bottom of the page, and a few seconds
> > later,
> > the screen goes blank, and my VDU gives the messgae, "NO SIGNAL" After
> > about
> > a minute, the system reboots to the BIOS page again and continues up to
> > the
> > animated screen, and stops again. After it self boots for a second time, I
> > get the SAFE MODE option screen. If I leave it on START WINDOWS NORMALLY,
> > and
> > leave it to complete the 30s count down, It boots again, and then
> > completes
> > the boot into Vista. If at the count down screen, I press enter, it goes
> > into
> > a boot loop that doesn't stop until I press the reset button on my box.
> > Any
> > Idea's? I have done a re-install twice and problem continues.
> >
> >
>

Have just tried that, but it wont let me do an upgrade as it says I would be
down-grading.

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

> Try an In Place Upgrade (Vista's version of Repair Install) and see if the
> issues persist. You boot into Windows, insert the Vista dvd, click on
> Install now, and choose upgrade. It does not disturb your apps and files.
>
> "David Brickell" <> wrote in message
> news:1E93E015-633E-4D31-8710-...
> > It ran perfectly. I did the clean install because I wanted to partition my
> > HD! I have not changed any hardware. This problem started before I had
> > installed any other software, drivers or updates. I have run chkdsk on the
> > partitions, and it is not reporting any problems. I have also run the boot
> > diagnostic tool on the setup disc, and it reports that there is nothing
> > wrong
> > with my boot.
> >
> > "Hiren" wrote:
> >
> >> What was it like BEFORE you performed the clean install?
> >> And also,what LED to that installation?I mean,what was the reason behind
> >> it?
> >>
> >> "David Brickell" <> wrote in
> >> message
> >> news:0F477D3A-AE4B-4CCD-9A1F-...
> >> I have done a clean install of Vista Ultimate (64), and since then,
> >> everytime
> >> I start my computer, it fails to boot correctly. It passes the BIOS page,
> >> starts the animated bar at the bottom of the page, and a few seconds
> >> later,
> >> the screen goes blank, and my VDU gives the messgae, "NO SIGNAL" After
> >> about
> >> a minute, the system reboots to the BIOS page again and continues up to
> >> the
> >> animated screen, and stops again. After it self boots for a second time,
> >> I
> >> get the SAFE MODE option screen. If I leave it on START WINDOWS NORMALLY,
> >> and
> >> leave it to complete the 30s count down, It boots again, and then
> >> completes
> >> the boot into Vista. If at the count down screen, I press enter, it goes
> >> into
> >> a boot loop that doesn't stop until I press the reset button on my box.
> >> Any
> >> Idea's? I have done a re-install twice and problem continues.
> >>
> >>
>