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SnesTea on 14 March 2012

Problem seems to be resolved, however, run DXDIAG and share your specs :)



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Mummelmann on 14 March 2012

You have a Sony laptop AND Vista? (Hyneman voice) "Well, there's your problem." (Hyneman voice off).



leatherhat on 14 March 2012
trasharmdsister12 said:

If you can't get safe mode working again I'd suggest downloading and burning Ubuntu if you have another machine that you can use. Ubuntu is a Linux based OS and a neat thing about the installation CD is that you can actually run the entire OS right from the CD to test it out before you install anything.

So you can actually get access to all your Windows based drives and partitions while running Ubuntu from a CD. If Ubuntu fails to load or has similar freezing problems then there's a good chance that you have yourself a hardware oriented issue. Otherwise, you'll be able to back up all your stuff and reinstall the Windows OS.

If your laptop came preinstalled with an OS what is typically done is you're also given a recovery disc or there's a partition that holds an image of the laptop at first startup. Before getting into this I'd suggest trying the Ubuntu thing as that way we can be more sure whether this is just a Windows registry/system integrity issue or whether there is also some faulty hardware at work.

Thats good advice



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cloud1161 on 15 March 2012
Alby_da_Wolf said:
cloud1161 said:
Hey, just so everyone knows, Vista was the culprit yet again. I installed Windows Ultimate 7 and my laptop is working fine (at least for now I hope). I did have to create a new partition though so if anyone knows of a way to reclaim files from a deleted partition I would really like to know but I am fairly certain you can not recover files once the partition is deleted. C'est la vie.

That's the reason why using a Linux live CD, that runs from CD without installing anything, was the best option to check and exclude HW failures and to backup files.
Anyway, as Samuel told you in the post before mine, acting before you wrote too many things on the new partition you still have some chances to recover some files with undelete utilities.

PS If from now on you make for programs and data files partitions separate from the Windows one, you should greatly reduce the risk of data losses in the future. A separate partition for the swap file too is a good thing, as it will greatly reduce the fragmentation of the system partition (after creating and formatting it, you must tell Windows to use it, I'm using Linux now and my Windows installation is broken and not repaired yet, so I can't check the exact steps you must follow for this, but it's easy, just google for windows separate swap partition).

Well here's the thing.   I started installing Win7 but then I got so far and it said please insert the disc even though it was already in.   So I was figuring the disc was messed up.   Then I tried the Linux disc and it didn't even boot up when I started, so I went back to the Win7 install.  Then I did some research and realized the BIOS priority didn't have boot from disc as the first priority, so I switched that.  By this point I was so focused on Win7 that I completely forgot about the Linux cd... needless to say it was a dumb mistake on my part.  In regards to the partition though, I did make a separate partition just in case something like this happens again.  Thanks though for all your help.



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cloud1161 on 15 March 2012
Snesboy said:
Problem seems to be resolved, however, run DXDIAG and share your specs :)


Here's the main bit.  

Time of this report: 3/15/2012, 11:35:56

       Machine name: JOSH-PC

   Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.111118-2330)

           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: Sony Corporation

       System Model: VGN-FW480J

               BIOS: BIOS Date: 05/09/08 11:12:06 Ver: 08.00.10

          Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P7350  @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz

             Memory: 6144MB RAM

Available OS Memory: 6112MB RAM

          Page File: 1395MB used, 10824MB available

        Windows Dir: C:Windows

    DirectX Version: DirectX 11

DX Setup Parameters: Not found

   User DPI Setting: 120 DPI (125 percent)

 System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)

    DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled

     DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 32bit Unicode



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SnesTea on 15 March 2012
cloud1161 said:
Snesboy said:
Problem seems to be resolved, however, run DXDIAG and share your specs :)


Here's the main bit.  

 

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That's a pretty good laptop.



Soleron on 15 March 2012
Snesboy said:
cloud1161 said:
Snesboy said:
Problem seems to be resolved, however, run DXDIAG and share your specs :)


Here's the main bit.  

 

 

That's a pretty good laptop.


It's claiming DX11. Does it have a discrete GPU, because Intel's graphics don't do DX11 afaik.



SnesTea on 15 March 2012
Soleron said:
Snesboy said:
cloud1161 said:
Snesboy said:
Problem seems to be resolved, however, run DXDIAG and share your specs :)


Here's the main bit.  

 

 

That's a pretty good laptop.


It's claiming DX11. Does it have a discrete GPU, because Intel's graphics don't do DX11 afaik.

It didn't show it. I'm gonna look up the model.



SnesTea on 15 March 2012

Chipset : Mobile Intel® PM45 Express Chipset
Graphics Processor : ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4650 with Total Available Graphics Memory of 3820MB (max.)13
Graphics Video RAM : 512MB dedicated Video RAM



cloud1161 on 15 March 2012
Soleron said:
Snesboy said:
cloud1161 said:
Snesboy said:
Problem seems to be resolved, however, run DXDIAG and share your specs :)


Here's the main bit.  

 

 

That's a pretty good laptop.


It's claiming DX11. Does it have a discrete GPU, because Intel's graphics don't do DX11 afaik.

Thanks Snesboy.  As for Soleron, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by discrete GPU, but the graphics card is an ATI Radeon HD 4650.  When vista was installed,  the laptop was running DX10, so I'm guessing the DX11 was installed with Windows 7.  



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