Blue Screen of Death on system start

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I am going crazy with this...

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System = brand new Vista Home Premium installed on new bare HDD last week.  Worked.

Updates = all issued to SP2 level, this week.  Worked.

This morning, purchased & installed Acronis True Image Home 2009 and let it do all offered defaults.  OK. Registered the product.

Restarted the PC.

NOW, blue screen of death, and system loops through re-boots.

Tried going into Safe Mode to Uninstall Acronis. Not possible.

Tried Repair from the Vista dvd.  Vista found nothing to repair.

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Any ideas / guidance / suggestions?

Thanks,

RK

Fri, 09/25/2009 - 02:57
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Just following on:-

It dawned on me, after I finished my first post that Acronis had run through the offered defaults during installation.

Therefore, there should be a image of C: drive so I should be able to Restore and all would be well.

Booted from the Acronis disc and I was back within the application.

Yep, there was the image sitting on D: drive.

Told Acronis to Restore C: and it ran to completion (about 30 minutes).

Low and behold - it still does BSOD upon Boot!!!!!!!!!

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OK, I give up.  Will reformat C: & re-install Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 then download the all the updates, again.

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May seek further advice from Jack Daniels and Jim Beam...

RK

Fri, 09/25/2009 - 04:10
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What build of TI 2009 are you using?

Do you have any media card readers connected to the computer? If so, have you tried booting with them disconnected?

Fri, 09/25/2009 - 05:20
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Thanks Mudcrab,

AFAIK, it is the current build, as per check with Acronis web site this morning, after installation.  All hardware that could be removed has been removed.

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UPDATE:

The reformat & re-install of Vista failed.  Odd, PC has been working well for one week since first built.

Discovered, subsequent to above:-

(1)  PartionMagic found defective locations (fixable) on C: drive.

(2) MEMTEST shows massive FAILURES on the  2 x 2GB GEIL DDR2 800 in this HTPC.

Swapped out the memory sticks.

MEMTEST is now PASSing all locations.

I deduce the GEIL RAM sticks started failing earlier today.

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One of those days!

Now, to re-install Acronis.

Will let you know tomorrow...

RK

Fri, 09/25/2009 - 07:21