Hi Johnny_mango,

Have you tired installing the Standalone version of Service Pack 1?

Checkout this thread for more information...

http://www.vistax64.com/windows-upda...u-how-get.html

Steven


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Thanks again for the reply.

I believe I did install that one, as the service pack did not appear in
Windows Update. I suspect something is badly wrong with all the updates
it tries to install, as I see those repeated errors in the Event Viewer
upon each restart, like it thinks they aren´t relevant, or it fails to
install them correctly.

I found this thread:
'Dell Inspiron 1420 Blue Screen when restart - Page 2 - Notebook Forums
and Laptop Discussion'
(http://forum.notebookreview.com/show...=207087&page=2)

and will try that suggestion and post back here with the results.

Cheers.


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johnny_mango

My Vista started to update itself. After Vista downloaded Service Pack 1 it
asked me to confirm installation, so I started to install it. It took more
than 1 hour until Vista installed Service Pack on my laptop. Then I restarted
the system and it stopped working at all. Vista gives me the blue screen
saying that I might have a virus and asks me to insert Vista CD to repair the
system. My laptop doesn't even work right now and it doesn't run Vista.

If you restart the system, I believe you can press F12 or F2 to choose
the starting mode. Therein, you can choose "Last known good
configuration" which is the configuration which was used the last time
you successfully booted the system. In this way, you should be able to
go back to before you installed the service pack.

If you do a repair with the Vista cd you might be able to go back to
the restore point from before installing the SP.

Good luck!!

Btw, the last link appeared to work and I can re-start my comp now,
although the service pack installation also failed - perhaps the
hibernation thing kicked in.


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