Windows Vista Ultimate Stops after CRCDrive.sys Load

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Windows Vista Ultimate Stops after CRCDrive.sys Load

Windows Vista12
On Jan 10, My PC was updated by Microsoft's automatic updates. Since the

auto update, my pc hangs after loading CRCDrive.sys. All I get is continious

scrolling. Any Idea what is going on? This PC was stable before this

update.

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UncleHenry

Registered User

Thu Jan 17 12:18:26 PST 2008

Re:Windows Vista Ultimate Stops after CRCDrive.sys Load

I had a problem very similar to your one.

When booting normally, Windows would hang on the screen with the green

scrolling bar. When booting with the option to see the loading of

drivers, the last one displayed was CRCDrive.sys. The system booted in

safe mode. Neither "Last known good" nor System restore fixed the

problem.

I was blaming the last piece of software I installed, a driver for my

Samsung monitor, but it turned out I was completely off the mark.

Instead, I finally discovered that the problem is due to the network

card initialization, but only shows up under certain conditions.

First of all, if I disconnect the PC from the electrical power, it

boots succesfully. However, it's not enough to turn it off, I have to

disconnect it from the mains power altoghether.

Then, as long as I don't connect a network cable into the ethernet

port, I can reboot or shut down/start succesfully.

If I plug a network cable with the machine turned off, I can still boot

succesfully once. However, subsequent boots hang, even if I turn the

machine off and even if I unplug the network cable. The only way to

recover the situation is to disconnect the PC from the mains power.

I guess the network adapter is partly powered even when the PC is off,

to enable wake on lan, hence the need to unplug the power cable.

I don't have any Windows update installed: the system is the same as it

was when I installed it from the original DVD.

Below you'll find a summary of my configuration.

Hope this helps.

PC: Notebook Asus F3SV

Network adapter: Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/100Base-T

Controller

Windows: Vista Ultimate 64 bit

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UncleHenry

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AlexB

Registered User

Thu Jan 17 16:47:24 PST 2008

Re:Windows Vista Ultimate Stops after CRCDrive.sys Load

It is a fascinating story. I took a note of it. Very helpful.

"UncleHenry" <UncleHenry.33cko2@no-mx.forums.net>wrote in message

Quote

I had a problem very similar to your one.

When booting normally, Windows would hang on the screen with the green

scrolling bar. When booting with the option to see the loading of

drivers, the last one displayed was CRCDrive.sys. The system booted in

safe mode. Neither "Last known good" nor System restore fixed the

problem.

I was blaming the last piece of software I installed, a driver for my

Samsung monitor, but it turned out I was completely off the mark.

Instead, I finally discovered that the problem is due to the network

card initialization, but only shows up under certain conditions.

First of all, if I disconnect the PC from the electrical power, it

boots succesfully. However, it's not enough to turn it off, I have to

disconnect it from the mains power altoghether.

Then, as long as I don't connect a network cable into the ethernet

port, I can reboot or shut down/start succesfully.

If I plug a network cable with the machine turned off, I can still boot

succesfully once. However, subsequent boots hang, even if I turn the

machine off and even if I unplug the network cable. The only way to

recover the situation is to disconnect the PC from the mains power.

I guess the network adapter is partly powered even when the PC is off,

to enable wake on lan, hence the need to unplug the power cable.

I don't have any Windows update installed: the system is the same as it

was when I installed it from the original DVD.

Below you'll find a summary of my configuration.

Hope this helps.

PC: Notebook Asus F3SV

Network adapter: Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/100Base-T

Controller

Windows: Vista Ultimate 64 bit

--

UncleHenry