Hi again

Thanks for replying to my problem!

Firstly, I noticed I have made a small mistake in original post - The
loading bar for Vista _does_ come up and run for a second or two before
the computer shuts down and reboots - not sure if that would make any
difference to the issue.

Rick Rogers

- Command line mode (non-gui) and run rstrui.exe to load system restore
would
be your best choice.-

I am assuming the only way I can boot to DOS is with a boot cd? I will
have to acquire another computer to make one as I only have a floppy
and this computer has no floppy drive. :( I will try and do that today.
Would a USB drive work as a boot disk?

- You can't affect a repair install by booting the installation disk,
that can
only be done as an in-place upgrade from a working installation. You
can
install to a new folder, just remove other devices from the list of
bootable
items to not give the system any choice as to what to load.

-Are you saying just install another copy of Vista in a different
folder then try to repair from there?

Mike Hall

- If you used the shutdown procedure, you would have gotten the message
NOT to
turn it off while the updates were configured. Did you force the total
shutdown?-

I did use the shutdown process to switch off computer. The updates had
finished installing then it wanted to restart to finish configuration.
When I used the shutdown process it came up with a screen telling me
that it was configuring the updates. I figured the problem may be that
it also needed to restart to finish those configurations but couldn't
because I had selected shutdown.

- You may have experienced a co-incident hardware failure.
For example a dying power supply can cause what you describe

-Hopefully not.. although I'm not sure which would be better!
If the power supply was faulty I would assume that it wouldn't allow me
to access this Asus Utility page? There doesn't appear to be any other
problems apart from Vista not loading and the computer restarting.


Thanks again guys, Hope to hear back soon.
Will let you know if I have any luck.

Kind Regards
Sam


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