Windows Vista is not starting up

> I ran into these same symptoms recently with an old HP laptop running
> XP. The customer had also talked to HP about it to no avail. I tried
> everything I could think of, including doing a complete system recovery
> using the set of recovery CDs that came with the laptop. Although it
> kept looking like I was getting somewhere, everything failed at some
> point and I could never make it to the desktop. Finally, I popped in a
> bootup CD with Spinrite on it to check the hard drive and the first
> thing that it said was to turn off the computer immediately because the
> hard drive was running too hot. Only then, did the customer tell me
> that, quite some time ago, a cooling fan had gone out and he had failed
> to replace it. So the hard drive was fried, he needed a new cooling fan,
> and had lost all his data.
>
> Daze
>
> tomduo wrote:

> > I came home from class, turned my PC on, and it booted up. It got to the
> > loading screen (With the Microsoft logo and the moving green bar) and then it
> > went black, and I saw a flash of the blue screen, and then it restarted to
> > the startup screen. It then went to the "Windows did not start properly" And
> > so I selected 'startup repair'. It then went to the green bar screen, and
> > then went black. My mouse pointer appeared and I could move it, but aside
> > from that, nothing.
> >
> > I restarted after a few minutes and tried to start in safe mode, but again a
> > quick flash of the bluescreen and then it restarted. I tried to do the system
> > restore, but similar to the black screen with the pointer, except this screen
> > was blue. The pointer moved with my mouse, but nothing.
> >
> > I called HP support, they had me check the BIOS, and everything seemed fine.
> > They said I had to use a system restore disc they are sending me in the mail
> > (which will knock out my files) and I am wondering if there's a way to fix
> > this, or are my documents screwed?
> >
> > Also what could cause this? How do I prevent it? I just switched from my
> > prefered anti-virus (Kapersky) to one that my university prefered (McAffee)
> > which I needed to install otherwise I could not access the internet. Is it a
> > virus?

>

> This is a new HP Pavillion Tower (month old) and the fans work fine. I have
> made it past the blue screen by just leaving it on, and now it's doing the
> startup repair. It's saying it could take an hour to complete. Hopefully
> everything is good, but still is this a heat problem? If so I'm not sure why,
> the computer was off all day in an air conditioned room (I keep the temp
> around 70)
>
> "Daze N. Knights" wrote:
>

> > I ran into these same symptoms recently with an old HP laptop running
> > XP. The customer had also talked to HP about it to no avail. I tried
> > everything I could think of, including doing a complete system recovery
> > using the set of recovery CDs that came with the laptop. Although it
> > kept looking like I was getting somewhere, everything failed at some
> > point and I could never make it to the desktop. Finally, I popped in a
> > bootup CD with Spinrite on it to check the hard drive and the first
> > thing that it said was to turn off the computer immediately because the
> > hard drive was running too hot. Only then, did the customer tell me
> > that, quite some time ago, a cooling fan had gone out and he had failed
> > to replace it. So the hard drive was fried, he needed a new cooling fan,
> > and had lost all his data.
> >
> > Daze
> >
> > tomduo wrote:

> > > I came home from class, turned my PC on, and it booted up. It got to the
> > > loading screen (With the Microsoft logo and the moving green bar) and then it
> > > went black, and I saw a flash of the blue screen, and then it restarted to
> > > the startup screen. It then went to the "Windows did not start properly" And
> > > so I selected 'startup repair'. It then went to the green bar screen, and
> > > then went black. My mouse pointer appeared and I could move it, but aside
> > > from that, nothing.
> > >
> > > I restarted after a few minutes and tried to start in safe mode, but again a
> > > quick flash of the bluescreen and then it restarted. I tried to do the system
> > > restore, but similar to the black screen with the pointer, except this screen
> > > was blue. The pointer moved with my mouse, but nothing.
> > >
> > > I called HP support, they had me check the BIOS, and everything seemed fine.
> > > They said I had to use a system restore disc they are sending me in the mail
> > > (which will knock out my files) and I am wondering if there's a way to fix
> > > this, or are my documents screwed?
> > >
> > > Also what could cause this? How do I prevent it? I just switched from my
> > > prefered anti-virus (Kapersky) to one that my university prefered (McAffee)
> > > which I needed to install otherwise I could not access the internet. Is it a
> > > virus?

> >

> You uninstalled Kapersky from the computer?
> You can only run one anti-virus.
>
> "tomduo" wrote:
>

>> This is a new HP Pavillion Tower (month old) and the fans work fine. I have
>> made it past the blue screen by just leaving it on, and now it's doing the
>> startup repair. It's saying it could take an hour to complete. Hopefully
>> everything is good, but still is this a heat problem? If so I'm not sure why,
>> the computer was off all day in an air conditioned room (I keep the temp
>> around 70)
>>
>> "Daze N. Knights" wrote:
>>

>>> I ran into these same symptoms recently with an old HP laptop running
>>> XP. The customer had also talked to HP about it to no avail. I tried
>>> everything I could think of, including doing a complete system recovery
>>> using the set of recovery CDs that came with the laptop. Although it
>>> kept looking like I was getting somewhere, everything failed at some
>>> point and I could never make it to the desktop. Finally, I popped in a
>>> bootup CD with Spinrite on it to check the hard drive and the first
>>> thing that it said was to turn off the computer immediately because the
>>> hard drive was running too hot. Only then, did the customer tell me
>>> that, quite some time ago, a cooling fan had gone out and he had failed
>>> to replace it. So the hard drive was fried, he needed a new cooling fan,
>>> and had lost all his data.
>>>
>>> Daze
>>>
>>> tomduo wrote:
>>>> I came home from class, turned my PC on, and it booted up. It got to the
>>>> loading screen (With the Microsoft logo and the moving green bar) and then it
>>>> went black, and I saw a flash of the blue screen, and then it restarted to
>>>> the startup screen. It then went to the "Windows did not start properly" And
>>>> so I selected 'startup repair'. It then went to the green bar screen, and
>>>> then went black. My mouse pointer appeared and I could move it, but aside
>>>> from that, nothing.
>>>>
>>>> I restarted after a few minutes and tried to start in safe mode, but again a
>>>> quick flash of the bluescreen and then it restarted. I tried to do the system
>>>> restore, but similar to the black screen with the pointer, except this screen
>>>> was blue. The pointer moved with my mouse, but nothing.
>>>>
>>>> I called HP support, they had me check the BIOS, and everything seemed fine.
>>>> They said I had to use a system restore disc they are sending me in the mail
>>>> (which will knock out my files) and I am wondering if there's a way to fix
>>>> this, or are my documents screwed?
>>>>
>>>> Also what could cause this? How do I prevent it? I just switched from my
>>>> prefered anti-virus (Kapersky) to one that my university prefered (McAffee)
>>>> which I needed to install otherwise I could not access the internet. Is it a
>>>> virus?

> This is a new HP Pavillion Tower (month old) and the fans work fine. I have
> made it past the blue screen by just leaving it on, and now it's doing the
> startup repair. It's saying it could take an hour to complete. Hopefully
> everything is good, but still is this a heat problem? If so I'm not sure why,
> the computer was off all day in an air conditioned room (I keep the temp
> around 70)
>
> "Daze N. Knights" wrote:
>

>> I ran into these same symptoms recently with an old HP laptop running
>> XP. The customer had also talked to HP about it to no avail. I tried
>> everything I could think of, including doing a complete system recovery
>> using the set of recovery CDs that came with the laptop. Although it
>> kept looking like I was getting somewhere, everything failed at some
>> point and I could never make it to the desktop. Finally, I popped in a
>> bootup CD with Spinrite on it to check the hard drive and the first
>> thing that it said was to turn off the computer immediately because the
>> hard drive was running too hot. Only then, did the customer tell me
>> that, quite some time ago, a cooling fan had gone out and he had failed
>> to replace it. So the hard drive was fried, he needed a new cooling fan,
>> and had lost all his data.
>>
>> Daze
>>
>> tomduo wrote:

>>> I came home from class, turned my PC on, and it booted up. It got to the
>>> loading screen (With the Microsoft logo and the moving green bar) and then it
>>> went black, and I saw a flash of the blue screen, and then it restarted to
>>> the startup screen. It then went to the "Windows did not start properly" And
>>> so I selected 'startup repair'. It then went to the green bar screen, and
>>> then went black. My mouse pointer appeared and I could move it, but aside
>>> from that, nothing.
>>>
>>> I restarted after a few minutes and tried to start in safe mode, but again a
>>> quick flash of the bluescreen and then it restarted. I tried to do the system
>>> restore, but similar to the black screen with the pointer, except this screen
>>> was blue. The pointer moved with my mouse, but nothing.
>>>
>>> I called HP support, they had me check the BIOS, and everything seemed fine.
>>> They said I had to use a system restore disc they are sending me in the mail
>>> (which will knock out my files) and I am wondering if there's a way to fix
>>> this, or are my documents screwed?
>>>
>>> Also what could cause this? How do I prevent it? I just switched from my
>>> prefered anti-virus (Kapersky) to one that my university prefered (McAffee)
>>> which I needed to install otherwise I could not access the internet. Is it a
>>> virus?