Windows wont start, because of blue screen. even after format.

[Seijo]

My computer seems to have died. Whenever i try to start windows it goes into the blue screen of death. it happens after the windows loading screen on windows 7 home premium.

 

Now I have tried formatting it, and reinstalling windows which only resultet in it going into blue screen within the last bit of the windows intallation.

It cannot start in safe mode because Im met with a message saying "windows cannot finish installing in safe mode"

 

The computer is not overheating.

I have not added any new hardware, clocked or otherwise modified the computer.

 

 

the primary specs are:

 

Operating system Windows 7 Home Premium, legal and has worked before.

ASUS P5VD2-MX SE Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Duo

Samsung SP2504C 250GB 7200 RPM Harddisk

Inno3D GF-8800 GTS grafics

 

I would be very thankfull for any help locating or fixing the error. And I will gladly suply any other data nescesarry.

[Seijo]

The Blue screen basically says

 

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A problem gas been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer

 

Attempt to reset the display driver and recover timeout failed

 

if this is the first time you see this stop error screen. restart your computer. if this screen appears again. follow these steps:

 

check to make sure any newhardware or software is properly installed. If this is a new installation ask your hardware or software manufacturer for any windows updates you might need.

 

If the problem continues disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components. Restart your computer press F8 to select advanced startup options. And then select safe mode.

 

Technical information:

 

*** Stop: 0x0000011* (0x85D6A008. 0x900BAA80. 0x0000(and so on...)

 

*** nvlddmkm.sys - Address 900BAA80 base at 9000E(and so on..)

 

Collecting data for crash dump...

Initializing fisk for crash dump...

beginning dump of physical memory.

dumping physical memory to disk: 50

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[danzil]

Hi

I believe nvlddmkm.sys is to do wiht your graphics card.

please can you try laoding "last known good configuration", then upgrade you graphics card driver.

Please postback if you can not boot into the system using any recovery options. do you have on board graphics as well.

kind regards

Danzil

[KenB]

You could also try removing the video card and using onboard video -( I think that board has this facility.)

Failing that - try swapping the video card for a known good one.

[Seijo]

Alright. this is seriously wierd.

 

I tried removing the grafics card and use the onboard one. Now it doesnt go into blue screen when I attempt to start windows, instead it says that an unexpected restart has damaged the installation and that I need to restart it.

 

So far so good.

 

But when I try to start the windows installation that worked halfways before, it now acts very odly. When I boot from the disk it loads the files, then when it would normally start the instalation screen where I select luanguages and such, isntead it displays a screen that looks like someone kicked over 4 buckets of brightly coloured paint.

 

Then suddently it starts the real installation, having me choose luanguages and such, but still with the grafics all kinds of messed up..

Edited April 19, 2011 by Seijo

[Seijo]

the installation worked, i fixed the grafiks, it was a config issue. I switched the original graficcard back and it mannaged to start everything normally even with that. Seemed like the issue was solved.

 

But once it enterred windows with the new card it automatically installed drivers for it, and when i restarted it went back to the blue screen again.

 

Thing is. It must almost certainly be a driver related problem? And I now have access to booting in safe mode. I have already tried the newest drivers from Nvidia's site. Those made no difference.

 

I hope this helps you get any further ideas? I truly appreciate the help already given. thanks guys.