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[(FPSN)lordsearider]

I have been having boot problem after windows updates for some time. Being that the system had not been seeing the windows 7 OS in the harddrive, first thing i did was replace the harddrive. This did not work, after windows install and in the process of installing drivers and software. After eliminating various components and hard ware. This included two Mother boards (As-rock supercomputer X58) one possessor (I7 940) several video cards (one Navida 940 and three ADM 5770) [I now have several spare parts]. I also install Windows 7 ultima, win7 professional as well as win 7 home premium. All were installed and restored, then formated several time. However, all OS's seemed to work well until updates started.

Usually half way through the updates (every time i started PC there was anywhere from 5-20 updates) PC would lock up on the "Windows Starting" screen or not Boot at all. After several hardware changes i noticed that the code "Error 0x-490" kept coming up. after long searching the problem and trying different things and starting over. This article seemed to work----- http://www.windowsxp...x490-fix.html#1 Basically it is a process that you rewrite the book execute file. i also found this article ---- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135 that help me eliminate a lot of guess work in the hardware issues.

Hope this may help somebody .............. I know if i knew this 6 monthes ago i would have saved a lot of money.

It's been about two days without a lockup on bootup, so we're still testing ............. (with our fingers crossed) (knocking on wood)

Edited by {FKR}lordsearider, 04 February 2012 - 01:21 PM.

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Great post Searider! That's a keeper.