Windows Vista BSOD on startup

Hello zfreeland. I have Windows Vista Ultimate and I tried that option too because I saw it on a tweak site. I tried the no GUI boot option in msconfig in Windows Vista and I got the different startup screen as you said but my computer booted up without any issues. Since you have the gotten the BSOD can you access safe mode or any of the advanced boot options by tapping the f8 key on startup? If none of those options work and you get that BSOD then do you have the Windows Vista disk? If so then you can put it in your DVD-Rom and boot from the DVD. Make sure you can boot off the DVD by enabling the option in the BIOS. Once you have booted from the DVD you can click the option to repair your computer and then there will be a list of different repair options. I would first try the first option which is startup repair, which will search for reasons why Windows isn't starting and fix them. If that doesn't work you can try launching system restore from the DVD and restore your computer from an earlier time. If all else fails you can do an in-place upgrade over the previous installation of Windows Vista and that should hopefully fix your BSOD. I Hope this helps with your issue. Let me know if these suggesstions helped. Good Luck.

 

Sorry to hear you have to do a clean install of Windows Vista. That must be infuriating to not be able to repair your computer using the HP recovery disk. But I am glad that you backed up your data so you won't lose it. I hope your system gets back up and running. Let me know if you run into anymore problems.