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Latest Microsoft Updates crashed Vista Home Premium on HP laptop (Vanity)
My son's dorm room ^
| 09/26/2009
| blueflag
Posted on 08/26/2009 12:04:52 PM PDT by Blueflag
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[THIS IS A GOOD OLE' FASHIONED VANITY]
OK, so my son calls me from Auburn ...
Right after downloading and installing the latest updates from our friends in Redmond, the OS crashes into a memory dump/ BSOD.
Vista Home Premium 64 bit on an HP notebook duo core 2 quad etc etc.
It'll boot and run in safe mode, but something Microsoft sent out conflicts BIG time.
I called Geek Squad to set up an appt for him, and the gentleman at Geek Squad said they had been getting a LOT of calls about laptops crashing after a Windows update.
Shoulda bought him that Macbook ;-)
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:04:53 PM PDT
by
Blueflag
To: Blueflag
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:06:36 PM PDT
by
Paul46360
To: Blueflag
1. Close laptop.
2. Buy beer.
3. Drink beer.
4. Problem solved.
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:07:55 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Paul46360
The “SO???” is be sure to make use of “restore points” if you are a MS victim ... so you can go backwards in time if “undocumented features” of an update ruin your computing day.
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:08:11 PM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur)
To: Blueflag
Yessir. I updated 8 systems and 6 are unusable now. Thank God I stopped at only 8.
We were planning a move to Ubuntu anyway, I guess I’ll get it installed on those 6 first.
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:09:25 PM PDT
by
BJClinton
(One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Blueflag
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:10:13 PM PDT
by
fatima
(Free Hugs Today :))
To: Blueflag
It happened to me once on an old NT (4?) installation. I downloaded the latest patches and it resized the kernel, which ended up overwriting the boot sector, resulting in a somewhat expensive door stop.
I had to do a Level 0 format and reinstall from scratch.
Hope that didn’t happen here...
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:10:56 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: Blueflag
*Very* common with the latest MSFT updates. I generally advise waiting for about a month after they come out except for security patches.
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:11:10 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(It's better to give a Ford to the Kidney Foundation than a kidney to the Ford Foundation.)
To: Blueflag
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:11:12 PM PDT
by
fatima
(Free Hugs Today :))
To: 1rudeboy
LOL!
You’re just a simply kinda guy, huh?
;-)
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:12:51 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” -George Orwell)
To: fatima
my son’s laptop WILL boot in safe mode, so he can do a system restore point thing ...
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:14:17 PM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur)
To: Blueflag
"Shoulda bought him that Macbook ;-)"
Should've installed Win7 x64.
To: Blueflag
This is the message I got on my new HP laptop (w Vista)
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
rolling back my video driver worked for a while, but this last time, my laptop wouldn't respond at all. I had to rebuild the OS from the rescue discs.
Had I the cash on hand, I would have purchased a MAC and needed software, but hindsight is 20/20
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:17:13 PM PDT
by
The Louiswu
(I live vicariously, through myself.)
To: Blueflag
I tried system restore and it begins and then says error.GRRRRRR
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:17:45 PM PDT
by
fatima
(Free Hugs Today :))
To: Blueflag
Could you tell me a little more about the specific error code? Might help me to look it up. I'm finding a lot on Vista update crashes for laptops on
google.
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:20:02 PM PDT
by
mysterio
To: Blueflag
You called Geek Squad? LOL!
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:20:25 PM PDT
by
ledzep75
To: fatima
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:24:15 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: the anti-liberal
—> THIS machine *IS* windows 7 RC 64
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:25:17 PM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur)
To: Blueflag
Your son is in college. Surely, he can find someone to barter with than having you get raped by the Geek Squad!
As far fixing the problem, doing system restore in safe mode should roll it back before the patch was applied.
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:25:56 PM PDT
by
ledzep75
To: mysterio
I can’t see the error code, cuz my son is at school. He says it displays briefly for about 5 seconds then the screen goes blank. Lots of usual stuff about BIOS and hex code addresses.
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posted on
08/26/2009 12:26:28 PM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur)
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