Boot Manager Missing & BSOD's

Amongst a lot of BSOD's I recieved this message and had to ctrl/alt/del or
something like that. Just curious to what is meant be this ? Not long before
I was running a linux distro from a CD and was wondering if that had
anything to do with it.


I have just installed Vista on a different Hard Drive and will see what
happens with BSOD's. Machine was pretty stable until I installed the latest
drivers from Nvidia for my sli setup and a program for increasing the size
of my images ( photozoom or something like that ). The BSODs in the end just
froze......


Oh what a lovely couple of hours wasted.......thankfully the install vista
without code and then reinstall saved a lot of time

Hi,

Booting from a Linux CD distribution shouldn't have any effect on the Vista
installation unless you tried to start setup or write to the hard drive. I
would suspect more a bad install of the drivers.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"will_s" <willsjunkremove@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> Amongst a lot of BSOD's I recieved this message and had to ctrl/alt/del or
> something like that. Just curious to what is meant be this ? Not long
> before I was running a linux distro from a CD and was wondering if that
> had anything to do with it.
>
>
> I have just installed Vista on a different Hard Drive and will see what
> happens with BSOD's. Machine was pretty stable until I installed the
> latest drivers from Nvidia for my sli setup and a program for increasing
> the size of my images ( photozoom or something like that ). The BSODs in
> the end just froze......
>
>
> Oh what a lovely couple of hours wasted.......thankfully the install vista
> without code and then reinstall saved a lot of time
>
>
>
>

There are lots of problems with the latest nVidia drivers. I haven't had a
BSOD, but numerous driver crash and recoveries and frozen cursors for up to
10-15 seconds.

"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Booting from a Linux CD distribution shouldn't have any effect on the
> Vista installation unless you tried to start setup or write to the hard
> drive. I would suspect more a bad install of the drivers.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "will_s" <willsjunkremove@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:468298F1-4486-47DE-8348-F300E4245365@microsoft.com...
>> Amongst a lot of BSOD's I recieved this message and had to ctrl/alt/del
>> or something like that. Just curious to what is meant be this ? Not long
>> before I was running a linux distro from a CD and was wondering if that
>> had anything to do with it.
>>
>>
>> I have just installed Vista on a different Hard Drive and will see what
>> happens with BSOD's. Machine was pretty stable until I installed the
>> latest drivers from Nvidia for my sli setup and a program for increasing
>> the size of my images ( photozoom or something like that ). The BSODs in
>> the end just froze......
>>
>>
>> Oh what a lovely couple of hours wasted.......thankfully the install
>> vista without code and then reinstall saved a lot of time
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
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> There are lots of problems with the latest nVidia drivers. I haven't had
> a BSOD, but numerous driver crash and recoveries and frozen cursors for up
> to 10-15 seconds.



The games run great with the drivers but the system is unstable now this may
be the hard drive or the drivers.