Re: Repair Install gives BSOD; next step?

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Sorry to hear about the situation. You may have to use the BIOS jumper
reset to get things back up & running. Certainly wouldn't have made that
suggestion if I'd known it would make things worse.

"stlsailor" <stlsailor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I now seem to be hosed even further, for reasons I don't understand. Here's
what happened.

1. Disabled FDC, Audio, LAN -- the only options available.
2. Rebooted. Got BSOD.
3. Rebooted and hit F2 to reenter BIOS -- no video on screen at all.
4. Rebooted and hit F2 to reenter BIOS -- no video on screen at all.
5. Booted up on Windows Install CD and had video.
6. Rebooted without Windows CD and hit F2 -- no video on screen at all.
7. Reseated all USB cables and rebooted -- no video at all.

Those settings should not have affected the video, and since I've got a
good
connection or the video wouldn't show when I boot off the windows CD I'm
perplexed.

"R. McCarty" wrote:

Enter BIOS setup and turn off every peripheral that you can ( NIC, Audio
USB, Serial ....) try to boot and resume setup again.
*Don't disable USB if your system has either USB Mouse/Keyboard.

"stlsailor" <stlsailor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I tried another step based on this and earlier suggestions, but it
didn't
work. So I seem to be dead in the water. Here's a recap. If anyone
knows
how
to get out of this loop and complete the repair install, I'd really
appreciate it.

1. Received BSOD. (0x50)
2. Did System recovery. Still received BSOD on boot.
3. Did System recovery from another point. Still received BSOD on boot.
4. Tried to uninstall Outlook Calendar Print assistant that I'd just
added.
It was not installed and did not appear in Outlook Add-ins.
5. Ran diagonostics. Everything was clean.
6. Did repair install. It told me I needed to reboot. Got BSOD on
reboot.
7. Tried to reboot in Safe Mode. Got message that setup can't boot into
safe
mode.
8. Tried to go to recovery console to rename video drivers. Could not
access
directory.
9. Removed video card from machine and used motherboard VGA connector.
No
video showed on monitor.

At this point the repair install is half done and it boots into the
BSOD.
It
won't let me boot into safe mode. I don't have time to reinstall my
programs
right now, so I need to get the repair install to complete. Any other
ideas
would be appreciated.


A STOP x50 error indicates an incompatible video driver. Safe mode
should
get you far enough to install the correct driver. See here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329293








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