Thanks to all for your advice, I did the repare from safe mode to fix it.

Just installed them on my FX-4100, no problems for me.

I suspended all my tasks first, then installed, restarted and let it do everything it wanted first and then I let BOINC start crunching again.

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Snakers, I am now thinking all along my problem was heat.
I took good advice from other members and changed my virus program, I got the update to take, and then “Bam” it all went down again. So now I have added an extra cooling pad so we will see if it can stay up.
Wish me luck.

Good luck Celt!

I missed this thread... what happened to me was: after the Welcome to Windows I got (something like) Fixing Your Desktop... then it booted into some sort of Classic mode:/ So I restarted and everything was OK. I've restarted many times since, it hasn't happend again.

A good tip though may be to make sure that Boinc doesn't restart automatically after the update, because the machine will need all processing power it has, to properly rebuild the resource cache. After it has calmed down from the HDD grinding, then you can put Boinc on autostart again, and reboot the machine.

I updated both on my machines with no problems.

I believe that the HDD thrashing that you mentioned is Windows completing the generation that was started prior to the machine recycle. While this is going on I don't believe that the auto-start programs have access to the system until the generation is completed. This is why the system tells you not to turn of the machine until it has completed its updates (generations). I may be wrong in this and if I am please correct me. But, if this is the case, then when BOINC auto- starts would have no bearing on the HDD thrashing. I have done it both ways and have not noticed any appreciable increase in the amount of time it takes for the system to come up with BOINC left in its auto-start configuration.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

I did try and Boot into Safe Mode last night, but it Blue screened there too,

My Windows 7 x64 i7-2600K, my Windows 7 x32 Atom N450 netbook and my Vista x64 C2D E8500 all updated O.K

Claggy

You can boot off of your Windows 7 installation media and use System Restore from there, so try that first

What are the system recovery options in Windows 7?

I don't have Windows 7 on it, only Vista x32 SP2, and the Blue Screen Error is Unmountable_Boot_Volume
Claggy

A Vista disc should have the same recovery options. IIRC once you boot and select the language/region there is an option on the bottom left of the screen saying something along the lines of "Repair Computer". Which will then take you to the recovery environment.

I've Booted off the Vista Recovery disk a couple of times, there is no Repair Option there on my disk,

Claggy

I had a similar problem with a customer's old XP drive a couple weeks ago. I put the problem drive in my machine and booted from my Win7 Ultimate drive. It recognized there was a boot problem on the customer's drive and promptly fixed it.

YMMV.


Lt

After waking up this morning I found my i7-2600 off.
WIN 7 OEM 64bit Pro; INTEL DP67BG mobo.
It appeared some updates had an disturbing impact on my BIOS-setting,
the 2nd PCIe slot was put in 1x mode? BIOS reports slot 3? 6 is the first?

BOINC didn't see the 2nd GPU (ATI 5870GPU), either.
I had to make a strange change, activating all virtual possebillities,
to get my 8x back on slot 6 PCIe (16x/8x).
And I'm not even sure, if the above change did get me my 8x back?

Very confusing, but it works all OK. (Also changed memory-amount to
20GByte 1333; both Kingston KVR1333D3N9{HK4/32G} 8GB/stick and 2GB/stick,
timing 1T.

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