[Eddey]

Evening all,

A friend asked me to install a game on his Vista laptop, so of course I did and all was well until BSODs started to happen. Initially the system just needed a reboot and all was well but at some point a 'major' one must have occoured.

After post the screen goes blank, but the laptop still accepts num, caps and scroll lock. After an indeterminate period, pressing the power button again causes the Vista boot loader menu to appear offering me a memory test or F8 for advanced options on Vista. The memory test goes through, but pressing F8 (or indeed enter) causes the screen once again go blank and back to nothingness.

Has anyone any idea of waht might be wrong, and possible fix's (other than get him XP)?

[Rich-M]

Unless you have a VIsta dvd to use to repair the system, and you could try to get to safe mode and/or use "last known good configuration" (which I have yet to see ever work), you probably need to access the Recovery Partition and start over. Vista does njot forgive incompatible installs easily.

[Rollin' Rog]

Try removing the hard drive and reseating it.

Also, if you can get hold of an IDE to USB converter for the drive try connecting it to another system and see if you can access it and run chkdsk on it.

http://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-USB-DS...=1XVAV5P7YIBXT