[mexjungleboy]

Hola... Well, A Vista issue..

A perfectly working Vista machine, on startup after login we go to a black screen with a cursor in normal or safe mode, thought it might be busy, but ran all night and never completely booted up, if ctl-alt-del, you can log off normal, and shut down or restart.

Unfortunately I was a MS dummie and never made a sys restore point, but beyond that this should not happen, and I am probally not the only one.

Any others with this issue and any resolve other than re-installing windows.

Thank you in advance.

[DaveA]

Call the OEM of this machine and see what they have to say.
Different OEM's are having different issues with their hardware.

[mexjungleboy]

I am the OEM, The machine is an MK1000 Gigabyte board and works perfect with other hard disks of Vista, or XP or Win 2003 or Win 2008 servers, it a Vista Ultimate license from my MSDN... hopefully someone has an idea, I have installed Vista more than 100 times so far on various machines, I guess maybe this will be time 101.. if no resolve, probally with sys restore point it can come back, but do not have.. such a prepared ms engineer, no... ok, thanks