CiC

hey, havin trouble booting windows at the moment.

i get to just before it switches to the login screen were it says microsoft and has a horisontal green bar scrolling, then it just goes black. mouse pointer is there and i can move it but nothing else. only way i can get windows on is to rebooot with system restore.

However if i try to run any system programs/tools such as msconfig/task manager i get a error saying
fle System error (65535) did a bit of searching for this error and I found that if irun a dos screen ad type sfc /scannow it should fix it, however i cant get it started in safe mode and in normall mode it wont let me do it in admin mode ( if that makes sense) any one else had similar probs?

Reinstall recomended


chiz

frags

i sometimes get the same error, i press off button for 4 secs then it reboots and says i gotta start in safe mode which i do, then turn off proprtly and it works after that, doesnt do it all the time but when it does its a pain and i also have no idea why it does it, i got win xp btw

running vista myself, some stats. only thing i have done is added a new monitor sinse it started to fuck up but that was few days earlier.

some stats

vista home edition (legit copy)!!!!!!!!

8800gt 512 nvida card (latest drivers)

intel dual core 2.5gz wolfdale cpu

asus p5q mobo

4 gb crucilal ballistix DDR2 PC2-8500C5

60gb pata western dig hdd (os) installed on

250gb sata hdd

seems to have gone tits up after a windows update according to sytem restore cant get it to boot after that update.

chkdsk normally fixes my boot problems

I always find that if I cant see the error, it isn't there..

Easiest solution...

cant run chkdsk as it wont let me open command promt as administrator and says i have get the same error. You need to do this in vista. might try it in the command promt option with the boot disk see if that works .

you can get a selection of pre-boot tools like techies toolkit which can run tests booting from the cd, also there are quite a few manufacturers tools downloadable from their sites that can run before boot.
you can also get some bootdisks from bootdisk.com to give you a command prompt to run commands.
ned

Gave up and reinstalled windows. thanks anyhows chaps