14 replies to this topic

[IronSheik]

I recently installed Alcohol 120% on my vista, and as soon as it got done installing, the system crashed and shutdown, now when I try to startup I get a blue screen as it is loading the startup icons, and I can't disable automatically restarting and safe mode crashes BEFORE it even loads desktop, the only thing I can get from the error is

STOP 0x00000005e (0xC0000005, 0x81c90722) and 0x9B3E7A68

I can't do searches or uninstall alcohol or anything, did I install and outdated version that doesn't support vista, what do I do?

[zamiel]

What version did you install?

Can you boot up in safe mode and uninstall Alcohol? Also have a look in the C:\Windows\Minidump folder for the latest minidump and attach it here so we can isolate what is causing the BSOD.

[Charalambos]

Try to boot using the "Last known good configuration" option.

Edited by Charalambos, 05 November 2007 - 08:53 AM.

[IronSheik]

Thanks booting to the last known good config worked, and I thought I installed the latest version for Vista but I could be mistaken

[Charalambos]

The latest version of Alcohol is 1.9.6.5429, you can try installing that.

[Watchboy]

I downloaded the trial version today and am having very similar problems. The error message I am given is:

STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0x82090722, 0xa85BBA68, 0xA85BB764)

When I try to boot using Last Known Good Configuration the OS loads, but seems to resume installing the bad driver from where it left off once I am logged in. Is there any way to cancel or prevent this?

[Watchboy]

I've also noticed that if I boot normally, Windows runs a bit longer. Using these few extra seconds, I've discovered that I don't have the latest version... I somehow got Alcohol 120% trial version 1.9.5.3105 from one of the mirrors linked to by the main site rather than 1.9.6.5429.

Edited by Watchboy, 11 November 2007 - 02:02 PM.

[zamiel]

Tried booting up in Safe Mode and uninstalling Alcohol?

[Watchboy]

I did, but to no avail. As in IronSheik's case, Vista crashes before it's loaded. Though I have been running a Linux Live CD to access some very important files of mine, so if anyone happens to know which files I need to get rid of, that might work...

[zamiel]

Have you tried booting up using step by step confirmation? (not sure if Vista has this still), this allows you to say no to the sptd.sys file before its loaded.

[Watchboy]

Unfortunately Vista doesn't have this feature. Is the file necessary for Vista to run, though? If not, would deleting it solve the problem?

[zamiel]

If you are unable to go to a previous restore point, boot up normally or in safe mode then you could try deleting the file. It is located in your system32 directory.

[Charalambos]

I somehow got Alcohol 120% trial version 1.9.5.3105 from one of the mirrors linked to by the main site rather than 1.9.6.5429.

Just to make it clear: which one of the two versions you have now installed?

[taufoofah]

If you are unable to go to a previous restore point, boot up normally or in safe mode then you could try deleting the file. It is located in your system32 directory.

May i know what are the files to be deleted????
thanks in advance

[Charalambos]

It depends on the version that you have installed...