Blue Screen STOP error

[JoeySpills]

Anyone ever get this or recognize it upon booting? This screen shows it's ugly face bout 30 seconds in:

"STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
The registry cannot load the hive (file):
\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE
or its log or alternate.
It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.

Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete.
Contact your system admin blah blah blah"

Any help appreciated, TYIA

-JS

 

[allteltec]

If booting from CD and runing chkdsk /r dose not help, This

http://www.digitalwebcast.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=8658

is about your only hope.

 

[muthabored]

Have you tried the Last Known Good Configuration?
Reboot your PC and seconds before you even see the XP splash screen, begin hitting F8 (this will take you into a screen where you can select the Last Known Good Configuration). Also, try booting the PC into Safe Mode (another option under the selective login screen after hitting F8). Another possibility is that a driver that loads during startup has corrupted the registry (while loading into memory)or the place in memory where the registry in loading could be bad (run a check on your physical RAM).

 

[JoeySpills]

Holy Moley!

Never saw this before! So, I run the recovery console, it took about 1 hr and finished successfully (can you beleive it?)But anyhow, I get to a Windows logon, punch in various usernames and passwords, local or network, hit "ok" and i see this:
Loading your personal settings
then:
Saving your personal settings
then:
Right back where the frig i started athe the Welcome to Windows logon screen.


Anyone seen this before?

 

[allteltec]

Try safe mode and let us know is that works. I have seem what you are experiencing if a virus or spyware highjacks your winlogon key. The problem will show up after you run a virus or spyware scan that removes the bad file that the winlogon key was change to.

 

[BadBigBen]

0xC0000218: UNKNOWN_HARD_ERROR {KB 156640} Win NT, Win 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=156640

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry that Prevents Windows XP from Starting {KB 307545} Win XP (includes error messages that \WINDOWS \ SYSTEM32 \ CONFIG \ SYSTEM or \WINDOWS \ SYSTEM32 \ CONFIG \ SOFTWARE is missing)

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307545

How to Troubleshoot Registry Corruption Issues {KB 822705} WinNT 4.0, Win 2000, Win XP Pro, Server 2003 (computer will not restart due to corrupt Registry hive)

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822705

How to Troubleshoot a Stop 0xC0000218 Error {KB 314874} Win XP

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314874

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[linney]

I'm recieving the folling error at start up can someone help?
thread779-1216011

Some things for you to look at.

http://www.winxptutor.com/wsaremove.htm

http://www.paulscomputerservice.net/index.php?body=./os/autoLogoff.php

Log in Logs straight back Out
Thread779-924408

logs you on loads personal settings then logs you off?
Thread779-919265

A second reason can be security polciy settings:

http://www.exodus-dev.com/techtips/windows_xp_pro_login_problems.htm

Removing adware & spyware
FAQ608-4650


If they don't work you could try repairing windows by running it over itself. You will lose all your windows updates but your files will be untouched.

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP (Q315341)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q315/3/41.asp