More Vista Woes

Ho hum. The last whizzo 1/10/08 Vista update did for my only Vista PC - a Toshiba portable. It totally destroyed itself beyond repair.

The update finished and upon reboot it generated a genuine BSOD sysnurdle error message screen which persisted for all of 200ms before the machine spontaneously switched itself off with a loud click (not enough time to read it and barely enough time even to recognise what it was). Blink and you would have missed it entirely.

After that nothing worked - the repair functions basic and advanced diagnostics could see the previous known good configurations but were unable to finalise them even given several hours trying. It got stuck in some kind of verification loop. The first serious attempt to boot after that failed whilst it was checking modules with about 3300/68990 displayed on the screen when it went click and switched off. Then it got even worse and stuck at 667/68990 but now it did not instantly switch off so it was possible to write down the error message for all the good that does:

!! 0xc0000034 !! 667/68990 (qwave.dll)

The display appeared to be refreshing this text at glacial speed.

Hardware testing with Vista not loaded shows nothing wrong.

I finally lost patience this morning and trashed the whole thing back into working with the master install disk. Thank heavens for backups.

Their lame slogan "Working just got more fun" really grated.

I wonder how long it will last this time...

Regards,
Martin Brown
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