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Infinite Loop, BSOD KnownDLL Failed, No safe Mode, No repair...
I am having all those issues but, I thought about posting on one of the other similar posts but, none of them are exactly like mine so I decided to make my own.
I built this rig quiet a few months ago for my neighbor and by the looks of things, it appears the problem lies after a Windows Update... I know, Impossible right?
OK, let's begin...
Basic Office Rig... ASRock B75M-DGS... CX430W... Intel G850... Corsair 4x2 1600... Spinpoint 1.0 TB (partitioned)... Samsung DVD/?/?/?... Windows 7 64bit Pro.
My neighbor tells me that it has a problem, that the computer won't start, I go check it out and I immediately see the loop and I suspect a corrupted boot, easy fix I thought, oh boy, how wrong I was... all hell breaks loose on me and here are more details.
1.- Startup Repair is my initial reaction as this has worked extremely good in the past... Nope, it lets me know that it can not repair itself OK, first sign that today will not be a good day for me.
2.- No worries, lets go back and try a system restore... first one I see is yesterday "Windows Critical Update" so I figure it damaged something or my neighbor stopped it in the middle of it, etc, etc, so I choose another one 05/10/2013, got almost all the way when it tells me it can not use it (or something to that nature), I tried the one before that one, same consequences, so I figures, wth, let me try the one from yesterday... Nope, same deal, I am dead in the water!
3.- Command Prompt is next and I see something that strikes me as odd... my Boot drive is not C: but D: ??? I'd figure Windows 7 might do that from time to time even though, none of my other windows 7 systems did it. I tried chkdsk /R to no avail.
4.- Google is my friend and I have come to learn that I am not the only one this kind of problems happen first to ... sure enough, find a few things to try and I found a "Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery" post from Dzomlija that seems to fit the bill for me, follow the instructions to a T but still, NO GO for me.
5.- Other forums suggested Forcing getting into Safe mode by using... bcdedit /set {default} safeboot but that does not do anything. Others suggested using bcdedit /rebuildbcd but I get an error when using that sintax.
6.- Finally I tried getting the Windows 7 CD, inserting it and it dawns on me that I am doing the same thing I already tried w/o the CD.
All is left for me to do is Kick the installation to the side and make a fresh installation but I feel that there might be something else I could try, that I haven't and everything will get back to normal... is there?