I purchased a new computer a little over a week ago, and installed a new copy of Vista on a new hard drive. Ever since, I've been having nothing but problems trying to get Vista to actually work and run stable. The system will usually run great for a day or two, then I'll get all these random errors out of nowhere, taking forever to start up, being stuck on "Configuring Update" screens, countless blue screen errors, or start up errors (corrupt files, failed to shut down, etc). I've had my system restore points dissapear. When I'd run Vista disk to do a start up repair, my HD would no longer show up as it use to before. Basically, I've reformatted and reinstalled Vista 4 times. I came across a fix for the "Configuring Updates" problem, which was the first problem I came across. Now, every time I reformat Vista, I make sure to turn Automatic Updates to inform me when I need updates, but not to download/update it automatically, I'll just do it manually. However, one fix leads to another problem, and I'm really at a loss on what to do.
I just reformatted for the 4th time yesterday. A clean install, installed my motherboard and videocard drivers, downloaded and installed SP1 (I came across a couple of blue screen errors supposedly, I wasn't around when they happened, just saw a box telling me they occured). I have Automatic Update turned to inform me, but not to automatically download and install updates. I installed Avast antivirus, Ad Aware, a PC videogame, and a Microsoft Mouse software program. Everything installed and seems to run fine. Rebooted, and the computer started up fine, within a couple of minutes.
I turned it off for the night, and now the next morning (today), it took a very long time to get to the sign in screen. I typed my password in, but it didn't show up until about 2-3 minutes after. I then finally logged in, things seemed a little laggy. I tried to reboot it. The computer remained on the 'System shutting down' screen for at least 15-20 minutes until I decided to just crash the computer. I started the computer back up by booting from the Vista disk, to try to do a system repair from it. Again, what would usually take a couple of minutes, was taking abnormally long. I finally got to the system startup repair, which ran over an hour with no update. I really have no idea if its actually doing something, or just stuck. So I canceled out, which again really didn't do anything. I was forced to crash the PC, start it back up, and attempt to start up in safe mode. The BIOS screen loads, the error screen loads (Windows failed to start up etc..) in which I chose to start up in safe mode. It's now been sitting at a black screen for over 2 hours.
I'm not sure what to do, besides reformat it again. But I'm getting the idea that reformatting the computer over and over isn't solving anything. I don't know exactly what my problem is, as there just seems to be countless problems that spring out of nowhere. Any help or suggestions would be highly appreciated.
I just reformatted for the 4th time yesterday. A clean install, installed my motherboard and videocard drivers, downloaded and installed SP1 (I came across a couple of blue screen errors supposedly, I wasn't around when they happened, just saw a box telling me they occured). I have Automatic Update turned to inform me, but not to automatically download and install updates. I installed Avast antivirus, Ad Aware, a PC videogame, and a Microsoft Mouse software program. Everything installed and seems to run fine. Rebooted, and the computer started up fine, within a couple of minutes.
I turned it off for the night, and now the next morning (today), it took a very long time to get to the sign in screen. I typed my password in, but it didn't show up until about 2-3 minutes after. I then finally logged in, things seemed a little laggy. I tried to reboot it. The computer remained on the 'System shutting down' screen for at least 15-20 minutes until I decided to just crash the computer. I started the computer back up by booting from the Vista disk, to try to do a system repair from it. Again, what would usually take a couple of minutes, was taking abnormally long. I finally got to the system startup repair, which ran over an hour with no update. I really have no idea if its actually doing something, or just stuck. So I canceled out, which again really didn't do anything. I was forced to crash the PC, start it back up, and attempt to start up in safe mode. The BIOS screen loads, the error screen loads (Windows failed to start up etc..) in which I chose to start up in safe mode. It's now been sitting at a black screen for over 2 hours.
I'm not sure what to do, besides reformat it again. But I'm getting the idea that reformatting the computer over and over isn't solving anything. I don't know exactly what my problem is, as there just seems to be countless problems that spring out of nowhere. Any help or suggestions would be highly appreciated.
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