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21 Aug 2009

Hang on boot, wth

My god, I go into Vista to update my media library, I reboot the machine and it hangs on the XP loading screen. Knew that wasn’t good so I turned the pc off. “Vroooooom” it says and I get the safe mode screen. There I selected ‘boot normally’ and we’re here again. I hope this isn’t going to be the standard bullshit now that I’ve installed Vista service pack 2 for real!

:eek:

If there’s anything I can point out I guess it would be the videocard. That thing has always been doing weird shit. Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE, need I say more? nv4mini.sys, 6.14.10.9147. Driver version 9.1.4.7. See this user here? It’s similar from what I get from time to time, though a hang is new. Usually windows starts up with rgb dots when my videocard fails, I shut it down blindly and then poke around on the cables and the next boot is fine. Arrrr! I bet it’s the video card.

Now let’s just hope I’ll never get that one again.

:innocent:

I do remember I had a black screen white mouse pointer thing over a year ago…

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18 Aug 2009

Vista SP2

I was so busy doing stuff I didn’t even notice SP2 for Vista is out. As usual I spy out problems other users are having after install or during install.

  • USB problems (2 reports): not all users, but some have problems with mouses, keyboards, external hard drives.
  • This is downright scary: BSOD.
  • A couple also reported WMI corruption, this article is worth a ton of gold imho.

Trouble shooting page (Microsoft).

Seeing as the intarweb isn’t full of angry users, I’ll install it.

Edit: Quick and painless. I’m on SP2 now. The only thing that keeps happening after a Service Pack upgrade on my dual boot system is that when I enter Windows XP for the very first time my modem appears DEAD. Quite frankly, I can’t even call the modem interface in the browser window, it’s that dead. The McAfee window appears extremely fast every time I boot into XP after I’ve been in Vista, which is not normal. After a Service Pack upgrade “it appears even faster” and my network is non existent. A simple reboot of the machine fixes it, I don’t even have to touch the modem itself. I find these kind of quircks rather scary.

:confused:

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