Originally Posted by
Shawn H
Thanks for the replies guys. Here's what I tried lastnight:
I formatted the laptop (again), and then re-installed Vista Ultimate.
With that done, I just ran Vista as it is and everything was working
fine. I shut-down and re-started the laptop many times to see if it
would freeze up, but it never did.
I then installed most of the hardware drivers, but leaving out all the
Windows updates, and then shutdown/restart my laptop a few times, and
it didn't freeze either.
So I then went and installed the first 2 Windows updates (I thought
about doing 2 updates at a time because I was a little lazy), and then
shutdown/restart, and that's when it froze at the bootscreen.
So on my next successful bootup, I uninstalled 1 of the 2 updates I
installed previously (to see which one caused the problem), and then
rebooted and it didn't freeze on the bootscreen, so I thought maybe
that first update was causing the problem.
I then went and install the next 1 Windows update (different update to
the last 2), and then shutdown/restart the laptop. This time it froze
on the bootscreen again.
....
Before I formatted and re-installed Vista, I was so sure that it's a
hardware problem, but now I'm not so sure, because it seems that this
problem only occurs when I install Windows Updates. How bizzarre!!!
What do you guys think? Software or hardware?
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