So I decided to reformat my hard drive last night. Everything was going good. When I went to bed, I had a fully operational computer with pretty much just Vista Ultimate on it. When I woke up this morning and turned it on, it worked fine, so I went about my daily routine. When I came back about 10 minutes later, I discovered that it had just rebooted. Concerned - I monitored it. It went to the Vista loading screen and just sat there, looping around. When I tried safe mode I noticed that the last file it loaded was CRCDISK. Of course I have seen this before, and was checking my drives etc etc. I had powered it down while I was checking everything, and when I turned it back on, I realized that there was no video. I have tried everything! Rebooting - Clearing CMOS - Removing every nonessential device - Trying another monitor - Everything I could possibly think of, and I still haven't got it to work. Could someone please help me resolve this issue. My motherboard does not have integrated video. My specs are:

MSI P7N-SLI motherboard
Gigabyte 9800GTX+ 1GB video card (Yes, I did update the firmware when I got it)
8GB OCZ RAM
Intel Quad core 2.4GHZ

Thanks in advance for the help.


Edit: I have video again. However, Vista is still stuck on the CRCDISK thing (I am aware that CRCDISK is fine because it was loaded into the list, I just don't know the name of the next file). Anyone know why this is, and what could I do to prevent this?

This post has been edited by Project 2501: 16 Jun, 2009 - 12:54 PM

What type of hard drive do you have? is it a SATA hard drive?

Yeah, I probably should have included that. I got it working. I actually just reinstalled Vista. Turns out the problem I was having could have been caused by a number of things.

Thing is that you usually need to install additional drivers when installing windows to a SATA hard drive.