i screwed up...

[VooDoo-]

So I broke my laptop already... it's an Asus G50V

long story short i put windows vista ultimate 64 bit on it, and while it was installing windows "important updates" i accidentally took the battery out .. and yea..

so i think there's a major memory problem.

when i start the computer, it goes to the bios post message .. and then the windows load bar comes up ... does that for a few seconds, and then i get the blue screen telling me windows cant start blah blah error code at the bottom.

the thing is that blue screen is there literally for a flash .. and i can't even get a chance to write down the error code.

so anyways .. i tried to just reformat by doing it the way i've always done, by booting the computer from my windows CD.

so i do that, it says "windows is loading files..." with a progress bar .. it finishes, and then that widows load screen comes up again, and after a that a blue screen.

the error code is 0x0000C1F5 (0xFFFFFFFFC01A000A, 0xFFFFFA80044E1000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x000000000000000)

really i think if i can just get it to format it'll be fine .. but if i screwed it up beyond repair it's still under warranty ..

[VooDoo-]

ahh .. i think i found a fix .. tedious .. but a fix ..

i'm gona put XP on it then vista ..

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never mind .. i get a new blue screen. after XP loads all the basic drives and what not, it pops up, and it says STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78D663C, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

[Steve]

hmm i dont get it, windows is facked, but it shouldnt blue screen if doing an install.

i'd give a quick shot at booting in safe mode (this also goives access to recovery console in vista? i'm not sure). at least you might get into windows that way.

if that fails then try the repair install again, you are sure that the lappy booted from the dvd?

if that fails then format the hard drive and do a fresh install.

if you have stuff to recover, i'd go and buy a hdd caddy and hook upto a pc and save your files that way.



actually, what the hell were you doing taking the battery out?

[VooDoo-]

man i didn't mean too .. i picked it up a weird way from the back and the locking switches weren't locked ... and yea ..lol

safe mode does nothing .. same thing happens..

yea it should boot from the CD ... i changed it in the bios to do that .. and there's a screen at one point saying "press any key to boot from CD" ...

and i don't know how to format any other way .. is there a way to get into DOS?

[atholon]

You can create a boot disk and do a manual fdisk.
XP will probably give you an error because it doesn't come with SATA support for your HDD (happened to mine)

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
Make sure you set the bios to setup defaults too....

[VooDoo-]

exactly why XP wasn't working, ath, because of that...

but that stuff is beyond me .. i can barley navigate the website lol

[atholon]

That Boot CD has tons of apps to whipe the HDD then you can just pop your Vista CD in.

[VooDoo-]

hehe yea i figured it out .. right now it's just wiping the HD clean ..

so hopefully this will work.

[.Simon.]

Silly Doodoo

[VooDoo-]

alright we're in business now .. i just wiped the HDD and popped in the recovery CD that came with the laptop .. it's on it's way ..

after this is done i'll install vista ultimate again ..

thanks for the help (ath is specific ) i was afraid I'd disappoint myself and not be able to fix it .. i went as far as to find the .. gasp .. warranty card

[atholon]

Originally posted by .Simon.
Silly Doodoo

Yeah, sounds like something Simon would do

Hope it works out bro.

[Hellfighter]

i was going to say if you can disconnect the battier to it to wipe out the bois! it may reset it.

i found on my desktop some time the power company cut the power and PC crash. i try everything, but i get that blue screen from hell, i remove the battier to the mob and let it seat for 20min, all reset the battier its back to normal again boot up nice

[VooDoo-]

i got it .. we're golden.

[Hellfighter]

thats great VD

[atholon]

GJ

[.Simon.]

Originally posted by atholon
Yeah, sounds like something Simon would do

Hope it works out bro.

I don't have a laptop so i have nothing to pull the battery out of ;P

Glad you got it fixed

[atholon]

ahhh but if you did...