I got a Vista Business machine in that is in an infinite boot loop from SP-1. It will go to 38% of the SP-1 install, and reset. I tried to boot from the First Vista disk in the set and do a repair, but it goes blue screen before it loads. I've tried Last Known Good, and Safe mode, but they just go to 38% and reset too. Turned audio off in BIOS, the only thing I haven't done yet is try another video card. It has an Nvidia 7600. Live linux CD's run fine on the machine. Does anyone have any other ideas as to what I may have missed?

System Restore is your only option for something like that while booting with the Vista disk... you need to be able to boot Windows to do a repair install (reinstall with upgrade option) lol

You can get to System Restore while booting with the Vista CD after you choose to Repair your computer. It's one of the Advanced options in the Recovery Environment.

Clean install time if that doesn't work.

Grogan

I would really like to do that, but it goes blue screen before windows starts from the CD. I'll pull his hard drive and run a CHKDSK from my Vista laptop. This one doesn't make a lot of sense if it is just the SP-1 issue and not a combination of problems.

Windows doesn't really load from the Vista disk. If your computer won't boot from the Windows Vista CD, (I thought you meant that it wouldn't boot after restoring last known good) then you probably have a hardware issue that has nothing to do with the installation of Service Pack 1 or the filesystem on the disk.

Grogan

Thinking about this, a problem with the hard disk sure could cause that when the recovery environment goes to read your Windows installation.

Grogan

It seams his hard drive is pretty hosed up. He has only had the computer several weeks. I am running the complete SeaGate diagnostics on the drive now. I reinstalled his Vista on a WD drive and will do all the updates including SP-1. I personally think he had major problems before the update.

So... another Seagate bites the dust?

Grogan

Failed the diagnostics test, 7200.10. Odd looking skinny looking drive. Another sterling product from China.

The new install of Vista also had a problem with the Intel Chipset drivers after SP-1, but Microsoft pulled up the warning with a direct link to Intel for a driver update. Everything is working great.