[joeten]

Hi eperdomo50 have tried reseating the ram and video card if you have one is this a latop or desktop,if the former try a vga monitor and cable then try booting and using the fn key and one of the Fkeys to see if you can switch to the monitor,if a desktop check the cable for damage, or bent pins,strectching,try another cable or monitor all pretty basic but allways worth running through just to rule out the obvious

[eperdomo50]

first things i did!!! i did everything obvious!! i basically took everything off the motherboard and back on!!! lol and i really have no clue what it is!!! my hard drive works fine on another computer!! could it be a faulty sata cable?

[eperdomo50]

or what if i change the sata port its plugged into?

[joeten]

Hi i don't see it hurting anything and you can always put it back

[eperdomo50]

i tried and still nothing! right now i am running a test on my ram.. apparently now it boots from the cd drive

[joeten]

Hey that at least is a start who knows where it could take us

[eperdomo50]

so... i come to conclusion..its the mother board!! i put in a different har drive to check and i got a bsod... so new motherboard and processor ftw

[MrLOL2341]

earlier i talked about it being the RAM because RAM is use for files that are used allot and need to be used fast like explorer.exe witch controls the desktop and start menu.

now while vista starts up it sends files to the RAM and that process may be cut off therefore no vista boot up

[eperdomo50]

tried it already! plus would it not make a sound for faulty ram? plus i ran a memory check on the ram and i switched ram sticks!!!! so i really cant think of anything else other than mobo!! lol

[joeten]

Hi at this point since you can boot from a disc try running a repair from your disc and see if it sorts out the issue method 1 http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial148.html
method 2 http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88...all-vista.html for systems with service packs