Wintendo Down...

Subject: Wintendo Down... Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:20 am

Gents,
Not sure how long I'll be out, but after patching this morning my Wintendo (gaming computer) went into an infinite blue screen & reboot cycle. Very annoyed the default configuration is to reboot on a blue screen so damn quick I can't even see what the error truly might be.

So much for my free evening tonight Smile

I'll keep you all updated; however, I maybe offline for a bit. I'll make the meeting tomorrow through my tablet / TS app.

Subject: Re: Wintendo Down... Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:53 am

That sucks!!!

Subject: Re: Wintendo Down... Wed Mar 14, 2012 5:17 pm

Been there done that total suckage my friend. If you need help post some info and this great community might be able to help.

Subject: Re: Wintendo Down... Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:59 am

if you haven't already started reinstalling your system if im not mistaken there is a way to stop it from restarting on system hang / blue screen :S.

go in to the bios and disable the restart on systemhang function

hope i correct on this its been a while since i had to use it.

good look and all the best Smile

Subject: Re: Wintendo Down... Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:43 am

I was able to stop the automatic reboots by pressing F8 and disabling that. So when I finally saw the BSOD it said it was having issues reading the boot sector, to check for virii.

I put my Win7 DVD in and wanted to start a repair, and it said it couldn't read the boot sector.

So I was like damn it... then I let it reboot again and windows finished installing the patches from yesterday morning, let me log in. I backed up everything off of the drive I wanted to keep.

I've not rebooted the system again yet. Just letting it run right now; need it for tomorrow morning's work and then I'll reboot.

Subject: Re: Wintendo Down... Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:36 am

good to hear your backup and running but im sorry to hear you lost some stuff Sad

hopefully cya tonight before or at the meeting Very Happy

take it easy Smile

Subject: Re: Wintendo Down... Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:49 am

Not sure if I lost anything yet lol... The system hasn't changed since the patch installed. I'm just not gonna reboot until I finish working tomorrow morning. Have all day off tomorrow; plan on enjoying it away from the computer Smile

Since I managed to get into windows, I haven't "lost" anything except time for now. I've managed to copy off all my user profile, book marks, password db, saved games, and all my current game installs to another location.