Re: More Vista Woes



Martin Brown wrote:

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...

What ON EARTH are you doing using Vista ?

Graham

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