Error 0x800736b1

TonyLisaP

Did you wipe the partition before reinstalling or did you go over the top of your current installation?

Ashok_2

I first deleted the partition then made a new one and formatted it.

TonyLisaP

Your machine is showing symptons of a HDD with bad blocks. Goto start, all programs, accessories and run command prompt with admin rights. Type in the black window
chkdsk /f/v/r

Then reboot and wait a while.

Ashok_2

It asks me to schedule to do it when rebooting? So I pressed Y and going to reboot now.. will write back when done.

Ashok_2

The check ran for over 2 hours but in the end it said no bad sectors...

Any other advice?

mdbarber

had a quick look but appears this is a general "access violation".
unfortunately that is not much to go on so you are down to procedural fault finding With a clean install off original disks assuming there are no infected machines on same network i would suspect a hardware error.
Once vista is installed have you made sure all drivers are present and correct
any changes to the memory configuration of the machine recently?
perform a memtest (can be done off vista cd)
try another optical drive to perform install

Ashok_2

I haven't actually bothered installing any drivers as everythingis working fine without them... Should I?

Thanks

TonyLisaP

mdbarber wrote: »

had a quick look but appears this is a general "access violation".
unfortunately that is not much to go on so you are down to procedural fault finding With a clean install off original disks assuming there are no infected machines on same network i would suspect a hardware error.
Once vista is installed have you made sure all drivers are present and correct
any changes to the memory configuration of the machine recently?
perform a memtest (can be done off vista cd)
try another optical drive to perform install

You don't need the Vista CD to run the memtest, just goto run and type in mdsched or goto control panel, administrative tools, memory diagnostics tool

Ashok_2

Ran it and it found no errors!

TonyLisaP

Goto control panel, hardware and sound, device manager and have a look if there are any exclamation marks or red crosses next to anything.

What brand PC are you running or is a home build?