Vista Update K#B941649 is crashing my PC (Blue screen of death)...

I'm crashing (blue screen death/dump) during Windows Vista Business Update #
941649…
Running Windows Vista Business, all current updates installed. P4-3.0 GHz.
W/HT, Intel 945 chipset/board, 2 GB ram, SATA drive, ATI graphics. I've had
this running and stable for 6-8 months now. Originally installed a fresh copy
of Vista Biz, 32 bit and aside from the occasional Vista bug here and there,
it's
been pretty stable...up until now. I can't imagine I'm the only one having
this same problem. When I install update #941649, my pc re-boots as it's
suppose to, when booting-up and during "configuring updates", I get a blue
screen dumb and in a matter or 1-2 seconds, it reboots on its own and will
continue to cycle unless I intervene. It happens so fast that I can't even
read the error message. I've tried re-booting and selecting "last known good
configuration" and "safe mode" and still the same problem. The only way I
can get
around this is to boot-up in "safe mode with command prompt", run a "chkdsk
/f" command, let it reboot and perform a chkdsk and then it boots up but
without the update installed. I've also tried running the "SFC /SCANNOW"
command from the command prompt and that runs and returns an error "Windows
resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them".
Needless to say, I'm not installing the update as I've tried several times
with the same failed results.

Any ideas or work a rounds out there? I understand this is a pretty
significant update and possibly one or two updates away from Vista SP1.

I think I'm in the same boat as you. I have been using Vista Premium since
July, installing all critical and recommended updates without problem. Last
night I installed at least 1 critical and 2 recommended, I don't even
remember what they were for. I think one was for Media Center or Media
Player. When I came back to my machine (after restarting it) I saw it was
stuck in a reboot loop. I only see a blue screen for a fraction of a second.
I was not able to boot in safe mode either, but, have not tried safe mode
with command prompt -- I'll try that tonight. My machine also reboots when
I try to boot using the Vista setup CD.

ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe, AMD 64 5200, nForce 570
4GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 8600GT (with most recent NVidia drivers as of this
date..which had been working)
1 SATA drive (boot), 2 IDE CD/DVD on mobo, 2 IDE hard drives on Rosewill IDE
controller

MJ




"JT" wrote:

> I'm crashing (blue screen death/dump) during Windows Vista Business Update #
> 941649…
> Running Windows Vista Business, all current updates installed. P4-3.0 GHz.
> W/HT, Intel 945 chipset/board, 2 GB ram, SATA drive, ATI graphics. I've had
> this running and stable for 6-8 months now. Originally installed a fresh copy
> of Vista Biz, 32 bit and aside from the occasional Vista bug here and there,
> it's
> been pretty stable...up until now. I can't imagine I'm the only one having
> this same problem. When I install update #941649, my pc re-boots as it's
> suppose to, when booting-up and during "configuring updates", I get a blue
> screen dumb and in a matter or 1-2 seconds, it reboots on its own and will
> continue to cycle unless I intervene. It happens so fast that I can't even
> read the error message. I've tried re-booting and selecting "last known good
> configuration" and "safe mode" and still the same problem. The only way I
> can get
> around this is to boot-up in "safe mode with command prompt", run a "chkdsk
> /f" command, let it reboot and perform a chkdsk and then it boots up but
> without the update installed. I've also tried running the "SFC /SCANNOW"
> command from the command prompt and that runs and returns an error "Windows
> resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them".
> Needless to say, I'm not installing the update as I've tried several times
> with the same failed results.
>
> Any ideas or work a rounds out there? I understand this is a pretty
> significant update and possibly one or two updates away from Vista SP1.
>
>

My Vista Home Basic is also crashing when running MS Office Word and Excel
AND while doing updates. I have to run repairs, and restore. The initial
startup freezes the system and I endure a loud alarm sound. I think the
KB941649 is one of the culprits also.
JIM

"JT" wrote:

> I'm crashing (blue screen death/dump) during Windows Vista Business Update #
> 941649…
> Running Windows Vista Business, all current updates installed. P4-3.0 GHz.
> W/HT, Intel 945 chipset/board, 2 GB ram, SATA drive, ATI graphics. I've had
> this running and stable for 6-8 months now. Originally installed a fresh copy
> of Vista Biz, 32 bit and aside from the occasional Vista bug here and there,
> it's
> been pretty stable...up until now. I can't imagine I'm the only one having
> this same problem. When I install update #941649, my pc re-boots as it's
> suppose to, when booting-up and during "configuring updates", I get a blue
> screen dumb and in a matter or 1-2 seconds, it reboots on its own and will
> continue to cycle unless I intervene. It happens so fast that I can't even
> read the error message. I've tried re-booting and selecting "last known good
> configuration" and "safe mode" and still the same problem. The only way I
> can get
> around this is to boot-up in "safe mode with command prompt", run a "chkdsk
> /f" command, let it reboot and perform a chkdsk and then it boots up but
> without the update installed. I've also tried running the "SFC /SCANNOW"
> command from the command prompt and that runs and returns an error "Windows
> resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them".
> Needless to say, I'm not installing the update as I've tried several times
> with the same failed results.
>
> Any ideas or work a rounds out there? I understand this is a pretty
> significant update and possibly one or two updates away from Vista SP1.
>
>

I have also install the Update for Windows Vista (KB941649)

Installation date: ?11/?3/?2007 4:16 PM

Installation status: Successful

Update type: Important

Fix for KB941649

More information:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941649

Help and Support:
http://support.microsoft.com

however, it's not crash anything..I don't think if it's the problem..
last two week, my computer system is crashed..then I just press F8 and repair my notebook..It's successful..


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On my 3rd attempt I was able to boot from the Vista CD and did a repair
operation, with system restore. That got be back into Windows. I tried
downloading and installing the updates again and this time everything worked
ok.