Continuous reboot after chkdsk

[dr electron]

Running Vista home basic on a Gigabyte GA-G33M/S2 with an Intel E4300 and 4GB of Corsair memory. I tried to install SP1 and it failed so I ran chkdsk to make sure there were no disk problems. It finished, fixed a couple of minor problems, and told me the disk was fine. Then it got stuck in a reboot cycle where it would get to the "Microsoft Corporation" progress bar, stay there for 5 to 10 seconds, then reboot again. When trying safe mode it would load some files then stop. After a couple of tries I got it going again with my Vista disk and a restore point (which I'm glad I remembered to make before I started). It seems to be running fine but I'd like to know what happened.

[jaybansal]

Originally Posted by dr electron

.....I tried to install SP1 and it failed ......

Please if you can tell me something more about how you got to know the SP1 installation failed??

[dr electron]

When it had finished it told me the installation failed and it was restoring previous settings or something to that effect.

[jaybansal]

Search for System Update Readiness Tool from microsoft. Download and install it.

Then update your system with sp1 hope this works...

[dr electron]

Thanks Jay. I ran the tool and it found a couple of problems. I fixed them and re-ran it and it told me there were no errors. I tried SP1 again and it crashed my whole system. I couldn't even get my Vista disk to repair it with a restore point (let it run all night) I had to do a new install. That would be the third try with SP1. Now that I have a clean install I'm going to try installing all of the updates, through SP2, before I install any other programs. Downloading the first batch right now. Wish me luck!

[jaybansal]

Sorry Dr. electron because of the system crash.

I want to tell you that system reboot after installation of SP1 is a serious issue with even Microsoft. Microsoft has also given special guidelines when you have such a kind of problem.

Don't worry this problem is not only with you.

Here are some links which will help you.

http://4sysops.com/archives/list-of-...ervice-pack-1/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949358