Have you tried installing using a different HDD?
I'd be starting lower than a Vista reinstall by running the drive manufacturers
diagnostic CD & doing a long DST.
Brian Weeden wrote:
Okay this problem has returned. Vista crapped out on me after only a month
and I needed to do a fresh reinstall (kept rebooting everytime a DVD was
inserted or locking up every 15 min). So this time I pulled my RAID card
and only had my boot drive attachced when I installed. But on reboot it
stopped at the "loading DMI" part of the boot process again unless I put the
Vista install DVD in the drive. Then it would load Vista no prob.
I installed the EasyBCD proggie linked to this thread and tried just about
every option, including "write MBR" and "recreate missing/deleted boot
files".
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