Swickle09

Drum roll please, set back to Auto, and it all works!!! what a weird problem to have and a relativly simple solve. When the prob first happened it was set to auto so i dont have a clue what made it decide to go **** uo but so glad its solved, huh and i bought a new HDD haha. Cheers guys for all help. Pete

Nooooooooooooooooooo haha Ok i will try that when i get home from work and post the results.

Hey guys, well all fixed, sorted and running as it should without any lose of data. After disabling everything i could in the Bios (sound card, graphics card, USB controller, LAN etc i enabled everything 1 by 1 untill i had done them all, and no problem, so, the only thing it could of been is within the CPU Configuration, Overclock mode was set as Auto but i changed it to CPU, PCIE Async and this really seems to have been the solve. An experts opinion of what and why it happened would be good to conclude. Thanks to evey one :D

Hey guys, I have a break through, it works, i have access to my files, not entirly sure what has solved it so this is what i have done and hopefully you guys can shed some light on what caused the prob and how to solve. I went into BIOS and disabled the USB Controller (although i am sure that this is not the prob as disabled it yesterday), switch the graphics to the onboard graphics, but again, i dont think this was caused as did that yesteraday too, i disabled the sound card, changed settings for over clocking from auto to (second option, dont remember now), You know i think it was that, i remember yesterday someone suggesting the bios may have automatically changed this option. Once vista loads i will take a look into what i did and enable each thing until i find the culprit. Woooo Hoooo :)

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Hi, I cannot get a pic till later. will post when i do. I have been reading a lot about this and as Pete says seems like a common issue without a common solve, it appears that Vista does not like SATA HDD's very much and could be the cause, but i have had my PC running for 7 months problem free.

Hi Pete, Thanks for your reply, yeah you pretty much have it correct so far, the only thing i have not tried yet is disabling certain things from through the Bios, which i will try later. As Seth says we have tried almost every thing, i have tried a USB keyboard and a PS2 keyboard, that is the only external device connected apart from the monitor. I am totally unable to try a re install due to the freeze up occuring at the Windows loading splash screen. Looks like a may have a major problem then? Great lol. Again i just want to say a big thanks for evryone who has treid to help so far, just hope it can be solved. Pete

Pretty much, but that would not explain the sudden freeze up originally when the PC was on but not being used, and all this happens if i just try to switch on PC too, i was wondering whether there may have been a power surge that has shorted/frazzled something, could it be a virus thats gotten into the bios/registry, could it be a currupt driver, which might explain why the pc loads so far then freezes?

Yea the green bar stops, the DVD had not even been used/taken out of packet before this happened, and have tried another couple of genuine Vista disks and same everytime. \is it more likely to be some sort of hardware malfunction?

I get as far as Part 1 picture 3, when it gets to that screen it freezes.

Vista came pre installed, the disk says, exactly- Operating system, already installed on your computer, reinstallation DVD, Windows Vista Home Basic 32BIT DS/N DE-0TT848-41350-74C-1208 i guess the number is a serial number. Hope that helps

I dont personally own 3 copies of vista no, i have tried 3 different original copies, one my own and 2 from friends, which concludes the problem is not the Vista DVD.

The problem is not with the Vista Disk, PC was running fine up untill friday when it just froze, and i have not been able to boot it up since, i have tried 3 different copies of Vista so its not that, it seems to be something happening during start up. When i try to boot up the original HDD in safe mode, its runs through the boot up files and freezes after it gets to CRCDISK.SYS

ok tried old HDD as suggested, nothing, same thing.

Hi, tried that yesterday, weird thing just happened though, changed HDD's over, hit F2 checked boot sequence, hit F10 now keyboard does not work? its has been fine untill then?