CactusWren
January 25th, 2008, 03:08 PM
My son has a dell laptop which came with vist home installed on it.
Over the Christmas break he set it up to dual boot with gutsy gibbon.
He uses vista strictly for playing games and some music stuff as well.
Earlier this week he called me from college to say that when he tries to go into vista, it starts to load, he gets the mouse pointer, the screen goes black, a screen full of numbers appears for a second or so then it reboots.
He cannot see if there are any messages on the screen with all the numbers because it flashes too quickly.
He has tried normal mode, safe mode, last known good configuration and they all have the same problem.
Gutsy boots just fine, so he can at least get his school work done.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
BTW: he doesn't have his vista cd with him, so trying to recover using that isn't an option at the moment.
Over the Christmas break he set it up to dual boot with gutsy gibbon.
He uses vista strictly for playing games and some music stuff as well.
Earlier this week he called me from college to say that when he tries to go into vista, it starts to load, he gets the mouse pointer, the screen goes black, a screen full of numbers appears for a second or so then it reboots.
He cannot see if there are any messages on the screen with all the numbers because it flashes too quickly.
He has tried normal mode, safe mode, last known good configuration and they all have the same problem.
Gutsy boots just fine, so he can at least get his school work done.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
BTW: he doesn't have his vista cd with him, so trying to recover using that isn't an option at the moment.