legacywork Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Hi Guys I know this may not be the right place .... but Tinker suggested I post here as I have a nasty dilemma I have been attempting modding missions recently and have released one to the community ... and have one on Beta test at the moment ..... however, on saturday evening I decided that I would put my PC to sleep rather than shutting down as I wanted an early start after promising the Beta release of nemesis_v1 for Sunday ..... All went well .... I woke up Sunday morning ... Pc woke up and off I went ...... completed the scripting and beta released the mission .... Sunday night .... I shut the PC down and went happily off to bed knowing I had fulfilled my promise. Monday evening .... got home from work ..... turned on the PC and ..... Nada ... Nothing ..... PC just went into a loop of trying to boot ..... gets as far as the runner bar for microsoft corporation then shuts down and starts all over again ... I have used everything in the Start Up Repair suite that was bundled with Vista but nothing seems to work .... I have tried activating the DOS command to run the Bootrec.exe ..... but if I use the parameters Oscan, FixMbr, FixBoot or Rebuildbcd it tells me no windows installations can be found ... Can anyone help ? Legacy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davros Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Have you tried booting in safe mode? Press and hold F8 while booting. As I said in the other thread, I do not know Vista, however have you booted from the vista dvd and run the repair options? See this thread.... http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html Dav. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake@War Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Have you tried booting in XP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legacywork Posted December 24, 2008 Author Share Posted December 24, 2008 Nice one snake Have now done away with Vista ...... and will be installing XP this evening..... Odd thing is that all techies at the retailer that i bought the PC from know all about this problem ...... but still tried to sell me a copy of Vista Legacy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake@War Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Great to hear! Vista should be eradicated on every machine and replaced by either linux or XP... That is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrowmanUK Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Well in all honesty I was an antivista merchant but now i'm using it after all the fixes in the last service pack I havent had one single problem with it and i'm actually liking it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake@War Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Still far to system resource intensive IMO... Like I said in my previous post, "That is all." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa6 Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 No.. it isn't system intensive. XP is unsecure and I'm, happy with Vista w/ SP1. It is being reported at Neowin.net that, Windows7 will release around June/July 2009. as for the reboot loop, put in your Vista DVD, and when you get to the install screen click on "repair" and you can repair your PC. That should clear up the problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake@War Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Well not if you have a new dual core rig... Not I, sir. It's just not responsive to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 happy with Vista w/ SP1. You are in the minority there though mate, that's why XP just got ANOTHER reprieve and is still being sold well into next year (due to demand), and also why the next version of windows is coming out so soon after Vista, as you mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davros Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 as for the reboot loop, put in your Vista DVD, and when you get to the install screen click on "repair" and you can repair your PC. That should clear up the problem Too late, he's already upgraded to XP I must say, I do love new tech, but Vista needs a new version, one that does not treat me like a dummy. AFAIK the new one is better in this way. Dav. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa6 Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 You are in the minority there though mate, that's why XP just got ANOTHER reprieve and is still being sold well into next year (due to demand), and also why the next version of windows is coming out so soon after Vista, as you mentioned. The reprieve was for OEM's Stay of execution and only for Downgrade option is available only to Vista Ultimate or Vista Business users. Microsoft also recently extended the Vista "downgrade" deadline for OEMs to July 31 and netbooks and low-cost laptops will be able to run XP until at least June 2010, so chances are you'll be able to get XP until Windows 7 ships. I'll be jumping to Windows7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabellum Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 No.. it isn't system intensive. XP is unsecure and I'm, happy with Vista w/ SP1. It is being reported at Neowin.net that, Windows7 will release around June/July 2009. as for the reboot loop, put in your Vista DVD, and when you get to the install screen click on "repair" and you can repair your PC. That should clear up the problem Vista is quite system intensive. Why in the world would you think that it isn't? Let me give you an example. Here's my wife's machine: Athlon XP 2700+ processor 1.5gigs ram ATI X1600 pro 512mb Windows XP Home Here's mine: Athlon X64 4800 dual-core 4gigs ram NVidia 9500 GT 1gb Windows Vista Home My wife's machine gets FPS in EQ2 as high as my Vista machine, despite the Vista system being obviously superior. Why? Because Vista is a bloated hog of an OS. I'll be setting up a dual-boot system before we go back to work, I hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa6 Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 ok, I'm running a socket 939 athlon64, 2GB ram on a PC I bought back in 2006. outside of a Bios update, it had an issue in the beginning with Vista but SP1 fixed all my issues. I'm NOT advocating that vista is a great Os rather, the SP1 release made it more easy to deal with. I have read and read reviews of Win7 through neowin.net, alot of folks are Beta testing it and have come to the conclusion that it is what vista should have been. That's my stance, minority or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrowmanUK Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 (edited) Have you tried running the AMD fusion tool Para? Papa6 linked to it a while back and i've tried it and it seems to do what it says on the tin. Yes, vista is a bit of a hog compared to xp but i've found that when I run a game the memory used doesnt really go up that much compared to when its just tootling along, so while it's ticking over now at 600meg, when I run world of warcraft it might top out at just over a Gig so my 2Gig of ram is still plenty enough so far. http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_fusion.aspx?p=1 Edited December 26, 2008 by CrowmanUK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabellum Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 WoW doesn't come close to using the kind of ram that EverQuest II or Age of Conan use, though. Not even close. I'll try AMD Fusion. I do use another AMD processor tool, the name of which I can't remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 The reprieve was for OEM's Anyone can by OEM, not sure what your point there is...? ps Sorry Legacy, this sort of derailed your thread, I shall stop now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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