FOAK, vista update broke me pooter.

People on here are good with pooters, well beter than me anyway,

This morning i quickly went on geocache.com to get some cache locations for
a place i was going today (found 1 of them, and near another i found a young
pet rat wandering about, so i now have 3 pet rats

Anyhoo, half way through getting the geocache data, windowz informed me it
had downloaded an update, and would re-start my pooter in a few seconds, i
told it to **** right off and clicked wait an hour.

When i got the shit i needed transfered to me gps, i clicked to let windowz
restart me pooter (a laptop btw, HP G5000, came with vista home on it when
new 7 months ago, but that fucked up and i recently put vista buisenes with
SP1 on it.. the buiseness version cos me dad gets all the windows discs for
his company, and i am allocated one of the licences)

Anyhoo, the laptop took the usual 10 minutes to shut down with much disc
thrashing due to the update doing it's shit, went to restart and the fucker
freezes, i get a quick blue screen of death and a re-start.

putting it into safe mode, it gets as far as the 'CRCDISK.SYS' jobbie, and
re-starts,

i tried the auto repair thingy by putting the vista dvd in the drive, it
couldent do owt, seems a fresh install is the only solution,

I can do that, nowt on the pooter i dont have a back up of, but if i do a
fresh install, when it gets that update again it'll do it again,

So anyone got any ideas of how to fix this?

 

<Derek Turner>

Install Linux.

</DT>

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TD
1991 VFR400R NC30 (black and red)
2001 ZX-9R (red and black)
1999 M5 (neither black nor red)
Missing: SOB, Unreliable Italian exotica, Lardy tourer

 

There's a thread up there somewhere about HP computers with AMD processors
going tits-up after a windows update. The thread was specifically about the
SP3 update for XP.

Apparently, the update reactivated an intel specific utility in Windows
which sent the AMD processor into apoplexy. Perhaps something similar has
happened with the Vista update...

 

"Gazz" <> schreef in bericht

It probably crashed on your spelling skills. Cannot be fixed easily.

 

Reading the press and the register, there's a rash of problems with
the Vista SP1 update.

Best to avoid until they've ironed the bugs out of the bugfixes.

P.

 

Bastard thing wouldent restore, had to re-install, just over 3 weeks since i
put vista back on this pooter,

i've now turned automatic updates off, was getting pissed off with a new one
coming out every 3 minutes anyway,

i have considered linux many times, but i've just blagged a pda which runs
WM5, (ipaq RX5935) so don't know if i could sync it with linux,