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I started up my PC and I always have to press F1 to continue past the bios message "Your CPU fan speed is too low". My monitor was off still while I was spamming F1. When my monitor turned on, boot manager was open. I just pressed enter cause Vista was highlighted. Then it started doing a scan or something. I turned my PSU off and on cause I didn't need to do any scan or whatever it was doing. I restarted my PC when the scan (or what was it?) was at something like 3140/102 235. Now when I try starting up Vista I get a quick blue screen and it restarts. I tried using my Vista DVD to repair but when I click repair and it started repairing, I got a bluescreen. I really don't wanna have to reformat...any idea what boot manager was doing?

PS: I'm pretty sure it wasn't doing a chkdisk. Usually when it does that it asks me if I want to do it and with that scan thing that happened all it had on the screen was names of some files or registries and and number like 2341/104 561 while chkdisk usually has a bunch of other stuff.

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boot manager controls the way you want to boot your system u can access it by pressing f8 also but i cant see how pressing f1 gets u there too, also turn off the fan monitor or well decrease the fan threashold so u wont get that msg every time u boot! It kinda sould like ur system is going a CHKdsk a normal BSOD will have an error code like stop 0x0000000blah blah


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