claycoconut
Member
Hi, im quite a computer idiot so bear with me
im using a 3+ year old second hand sony VGN-C25G vaio laptop running on vista home
recently my computer blue screened everytime i turn it on, just before the sign up page
so i did some homework and found this http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Vista+Bootloader+from+the+DVD
i burnt the cd, followed the instructions, everything in step 2 did not change anything
reading step3, i realised that the cd did not have bootsect.exe, and so i dled it from the internet and burnt a new cd
followed the instructions, but
del C:\boot\bcd
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd
didnt work
so i closed command prompt and restarted the computer
to my surprise normal startup seems to have somewhat worked, except that it always starts with the screen completely black except for 2 windows, one being the system properties and the other about performing offline system restore, needing to specify which windows installation i would like to restore.
upon closing both windows, everything started to load, background, desktop shortcuts, even eset started to load.
to my dismay it blue screened in less than a minutes time
ive tried putting back the vista recovery disc from the link above again but nothing happened.
safe mode works like normal startup with the system properties and the thing about system restore but doesnt blue screen.
any help would be greatly appreciated ><
im using a 3+ year old second hand sony VGN-C25G vaio laptop running on vista home
recently my computer blue screened everytime i turn it on, just before the sign up page
so i did some homework and found this http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Vista+Bootloader+from+the+DVD
i burnt the cd, followed the instructions, everything in step 2 did not change anything
reading step3, i realised that the cd did not have bootsect.exe, and so i dled it from the internet and burnt a new cd
followed the instructions, but
del C:\boot\bcd
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd
didnt work
so i closed command prompt and restarted the computer
to my surprise normal startup seems to have somewhat worked, except that it always starts with the screen completely black except for 2 windows, one being the system properties and the other about performing offline system restore, needing to specify which windows installation i would like to restore.
upon closing both windows, everything started to load, background, desktop shortcuts, even eset started to load.
to my dismay it blue screened in less than a minutes time
ive tried putting back the vista recovery disc from the link above again but nothing happened.
safe mode works like normal startup with the system properties and the thing about system restore but doesnt blue screen.
any help would be greatly appreciated ><