Jonas said:
Well, here I am. Stuck in the Lenovo Rescue And Recovery center, posting
panically from an Opera installation.
My computer gets a bluescreen during boot. Error code 123.
"The cryptographic subsystem failed a mandatory algorithm self-test during
bootstrap."
I have found a lot of guesses online, but can anyone tell me what this
REALLY means and how to SOLVE it?
I tried a safe bott with command prompt. The systems hangs on crcdsk.sys
and
then crashes. After that i succeeded in renaming this file, just so see
what
happens, but then tho boot hangs on another file and crashes.
/Jonas
Hi Jonas--
Wow. The down to earth syntax of that error message reminds me of my
physics prof who spent the entire semester trying to teach relativity with
handouts that included to small airplanes x and x prime.
I did a little searching, and then gave up because I don't think you need to
interprete this message to fix this, although it would be nice. I'll let
someone else search it.
I'd try these:
If you don't have the Vista DVD with Startup Repair Features to boot from
then
Download Vista Repair Disk
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/
1) First try 3 options from Startup Repair. If you have a Vista DVD then
restart with it in the drive>press any key to boot from it and run Startup
Repair. From Startup Repair you have 3 good tools with an excellent chance
of fixing your system. If you don't have a Vista DVD from which to boot to
Startup Repair, no problem, Download the .iso from the link below and
burn it, and you'll have the Microsoft Vista Repair Disk with Startup
Repair.
Download Vista Repair Disk
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/
How to Use Startup Repair from the Vista DVD or the Repair Disk you make:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial142.html
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/5c59f8c1-b0d1-4f1a-af55-74f3922f3f351033.mspx
2) If Startup Repair does not get your Vista back, then use the 3 bootrec
commands from the command prompt available on the Statup Repair Menu:
The menu I refer to is in this set of directions with a grey background.
http://vistahomepremium.windowsreinstall.com/repairstartup/repairstartup.htm
Those are:
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd
3) If my second option doesn't work, then try System restore from the
Startup Repair list.
4) If by rare chance you have an actual Vista DVD, you can put it in, boot
from it>choose the Upgrade Option>choose your current broken Vista Drive and
try to do a repair install with the Vista DVD.
How To Perform a Repair Installation For Vista
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88236-repair-install-vista.html
5) If the above 3 tools don't work, then use the 4 tools available by
restarting your pc and tapping F8 once per second to get to the Windows
Advanced Options Menu.
From this menu click on 3 Safe Mode links to use System Restore. Make sure
you try all 3 if one doesn't work, because just one of them may work.
Tap F8 to Reach Windows Advanced Options Menu Pictured Below:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/...ank/techbliss/Vista-Advanced-Boot-Options.jpg
Safe Mode
Safe Mode with Networking
Safe Mode with Command: At the prompt you would type the command to use
for system restore at the safe mode cmd prompt is:
%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe
If these 3 tools don't work, you have one more you can try which is Last
Known Good Configuration.
Good luck,
CH
