Windows update bricked my computer

moultano

<div class="IPBDescription">Thank you microsoft!</div>After windows update forcibly restarted my computer last evening, I can no longer boot outside of safe mode. I woke up this morning to the windows booting screen spinning. The strange thing is that doing a system restore to before the update doesn't seem to help. Any ideas? Anyone dealt with a similar situation?

[WHO]Them

<!--quoteo(post=1687774:date=Sep 10 2008, 02:34 PM:name=moultano)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(moultano @ Sep 10 2008, 02:34 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1687774"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->After windows update forcibly restarted my computer last evening, I can no longer boot outside of safe mode. I woke up this morning to the windows booting screen spinning. The strange thing is that doing a system restore to before the update doesn't seem to help. Any ideas? Anyone dealt with a similar situation?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

While I sympathize with your plight. That's not what bricked means. That's a reinstall at worst.

ANeM

I had a problem a couple months back where windows update broke my usb ports.. Upon start up it would randomly choose one usb port that would actually work, and the rest would wouldn't... and unplugging whatever was in the working port at that time would cause it to stop working. Trying roll back that update was just all sorts of awesome, with the lack of keyboard and mouse and all that.. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />

Zaggy

Tried booting into safe mode and removing the last update(s) ?

If all fails, yes a reinstall might be in order.

aNytiMe

Preferably using some kind of linux os.

Also, Windows Mobile almost bricked my phone last night. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Kouji_San

If you're going to be using somekind of restore program, in case a major update like this kills windows. Ya might want to look at something like symantec Ghost. Just ghost an image of you OS drive/partition at the point you normaly would do a system restore...

This way you are not dependant on windows to do the restoring of said OS <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> Besides you can put that ghost image on a DVD if your OS drive is smaller then one (it can also compress, if I remember correctly).


Normally Ghost is used on networks with identical office pc's, but it could work for personal use if used like above... And I'd trust Ghost over system restore everytime <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />


Also yeah, this is a reinstall not a brick where hardware has damage as Them said. If it would damage hardware and you Pc is not able to function anymore I'd go out on a limb and not call it a brick, but a rock (yaknow bigger, heavier... /hides)