Advanced Boot Options

Gringo · May 29, 2008

Brink, thanks buddy. I have about as much computer geek in me as the Eelephant Man had good looks, but I got through this mess nonetheless. I used Option 1 and it worked like a charm. Many thanks and I owe you a beer.

Brink · May 29, 2008

Your welcome Gringo, and welcome to Vista Forums. :party:

Cheers,
Shawn

bennys · Aug 1, 2008

Hello!
I'm also a computer challended guy. Just wondering, what does the advance boot do? does it speed up the booting time?

Thanks.

Brink · Aug 1, 2008

Hi Bennys,

Umm, the description of them had disappeared for some reason. They are back now. The Advanced Boot Options are used to help troubleshoot and fix problems with the computer.

bling · Oct 4, 2008

hey i realy need help pls!!i have vista basic and after i log on i get a black screen with a cursor on it TEMPORARILY ONLY (AFTER IT SAYS WELCOME I GET A BLACK SCREEN WITH A CURSOR ON IT TEMPORARILY FOR ABOUT 1 MIN AND 15 SECONDS )i can get in to the task manager i also tried explorer.exe but to no avail then after 1 min 15 secs i get to my desktop ive read few other threads on here but their case is worse but the biggest problem is that i had vista pre-installed (so no installation cd :cry:

)pls can u guys help me as it is vista takes some time to load and besides that this black screen
Ive heard of few other people getting it but in their case it never goes into their desktop Ive herad its called the black screen of death

Barman58 · Oct 4, 2008

Hello Bling, Welcome to the Vista Forums, :party:

Not sure if this would get you better support as a new post, :confused:

Anyway,

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/141820-create-recovery-disc.html

Have a look at the tutorial and would suggest you create such a disk for future use even if you don't use it immediately

bling · Oct 4, 2008

k i have my recovery disks given to me by my hp manufacturer

Barman58 · Oct 4, 2008

Hi Bling,

Sorry my post did not clarify what I was suggesting

It's possible to perform a start-up repair for vista, using a retail DVD, unfortunately the disks provided by most, but not all, larger manufacturers are not MS disks but their own which use an image to restore the system to it's state when leaving the factory. This is an "all or nothing" solution and may not be appropriate for many issues which can be better solved by using the options available with a repair disk, which provides the options in Shawn's tutorial

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/91467-startup-repair.html

If you want to try the startup repair option to solve your issues you will need either and original Vista Retail disk or the disk in my first post.

hope this is a little clearer :D

bling · Oct 4, 2008

k im downloading the torrent file which you specified to make the recovery disk for my 32 bit thank you so much

im sorry barman i tried it ,it says theres no problem and the problem persists

Barman58 · Oct 4, 2008

bling said:
k im downloading the torrent file which you specified to make the recovery disk for my 32 bit thank you so much

im sorry barman i tried it ,it says theres no problem and the problem persists

OK you could checkout your manufactures site for updated drivers for your system, (vista will often state that drivers are up-to-date although updates exists but have not been added to the Microsoft database).

if that doesn't help the next thing I can think of (As the black screen appears after the welcome message and the fact that you can get to Task Manager), is that the delay is caused by a program set to run on startup. the only real way to prove or disprove this is to see if the problem exists in safe mode

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/123496-safe-mode.html

If the problem does not happen in safe mode then its a case of disabling each startup item in turn via Control Panel - Programs - Change start-up options, and re-booting until the culprit is located.

This may of course take a while to locate the exact cause

bling · Oct 5, 2008

ok i went into safe boot and the black screen did not appear so i am tryin what u said and checking each startup item ill post when im done

bling · Oct 6, 2008

ok barman i took it to hp and i got a vista ultimate disk yaaay!! but the only problem its not an upgrade disk so ill have to do a fresh install so i had another question well i wanted to know now if i reinstall the operating system to ultimate from basic if i usethe recovery disk will it revrt back to basic

Brink · Oct 6, 2008

Hello Bling,

If that recovery disk is the original one that came with your computer, then Yes it will reinstall Vista Basic back.

Shawn

TeamanFL · Jan 23, 2009

In your thread:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88009-advanced-boot-options.html
I do not see any option shown on the black boot screen that says "repair". Which option is the repair option?

Brink · Jan 23, 2009

Hell Teaman, and welcome to Vista Forums.

The Repair option will only be available if you have a OEM computer with a recovery partition on your hard drive. Otherwise, you will need to use the System Recovery Options from your Vista installation disk.

mediocrates · Jun 16, 2010

when I hit the F8 key I go to a screen that gives me the option to start up with:
1) Floppy
2) HD
3) CD ROM
The screen has colors similar to the BIOS screen
I can start in Safe Mode but I am unable to change my refresh rate in Safe Mode, this of course being the problem... I mistakenly changed my refresh rate to 85MHZ at the same time I changed my res... now I get a black screen with a small blue box in the middle that says: Out of Range and has the res and several Mhz and Ghz values. I have tried finding the monitor in the Device Manager but it isn't there... I am having a hard time figuring out how to fix my refresh rate dilemna. Thanks for any help that might come from this post.

Brink · Jun 16, 2010

Hello Mediocrates,

While in Safe Mode, see if you may be able to uninstall your video drivers. This should give you the default settings so that you can restart back into Vista (normal), then reinstall the video drivers and hopefully set the correct settings.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

mediocrates · Jun 16, 2010

Thanks Brink,
Would the video drivers be on a disk? or would they be in the OS and it would auto-install when it boots up? That kinda scares me to do that...

Brink · Jun 16, 2010

It depends on what brand and model graphics card or chip you have. Normally it will either be ATI or NVIDIA. You can open Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) and expand Display adapters to see what you have, then you can select your Display adapter driver below to download the driver for the one you have.

If ATI:
Graphics Drivers & Software

If NVIDIA:
NVIDIA Driver Downloads - Advanced Search

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