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Continual Reboot
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Can you boot to safe mode (F8 on the first windows screen)? If so then you can go to my computer and select properties. Go to advanced tab and select startup and recovery. Under system failure uncheck the automaticly reboot box. If you can do this then the BSOD will stay on screen rather then reboot.
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I had this problem and had to reintall Windows. It was a real mess.
You might try the reboot with Last Known Good Configuration Feature - did you try this?
What I had to do as nothing else worked, was to reinstall Windows in a second directory, Log into this second installation, backup all my data, make a copy of everything in the WINNT/SYSTEM32/ Directory, then reinstalled Windows over the original installation. Then I went into the second installation and moved all the files from the WINNT/SYSTEM32 backup into the reinstalled location - minus the most recent files (do a search and find the most recently modified files - these are the registry files). The I logged into the New installation and restored my registry (I had backed it up recently - if you haven't you may be out of luck - use regedit). Then I edited the registry to use the correct Documents and settings files using redit.
Over all Most everything worked OK - I had to reinstall the latest updates for WIN2000, Office XP, and Wordperfect, as well as a couple other programs. I also had to reinstall my LAN connection for my Cable Modem, and my Video and Sound Card drivers.
It took me about 2 days to get back up and running.
You might try the reboot with Last Known Good Configuration Feature - did you try this?
What I had to do as nothing else worked, was to reinstall Windows in a second directory, Log into this second installation, backup all my data, make a copy of everything in the WINNT/SYSTEM32/ Directory, then reinstalled Windows over the original installation. Then I went into the second installation and moved all the files from the WINNT/SYSTEM32 backup into the reinstalled location - minus the most recent files (do a search and find the most recently modified files - these are the registry files). The I logged into the New installation and restored my registry (I had backed it up recently - if you haven't you may be out of luck - use regedit). Then I edited the registry to use the correct Documents and settings files using redit.
Over all Most everything worked OK - I had to reinstall the latest updates for WIN2000, Office XP, and Wordperfect, as well as a couple other programs. I also had to reinstall my LAN connection for my Cable Modem, and my Video and Sound Card drivers.
It took me about 2 days to get back up and running.
slave the drive in another machine if you need data off of it, and then put it back in that box and reinstall windows. It's not worth the time to spend troubleshooting a faulty installation when it only takes an hour to reinstall 2K and start clean.
get in the habit of adding /SOS to the end of the line in your boot.ini, and change the setting 101101011..blah, blah said about "automatically reboot" for diagnostic purposes.
When you blue-screen..it doesnt do any good troubleshooting a screen that just goes away a second later after it blows up. You need to be able to read it and have the user call you over when it happens so you can see what the problem is.
Some PC's dont start back up after a BSOD reboot so a memory dump becomes useless.. :
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get in the habit of adding /SOS to the end of the line in your boot.ini, and change the setting 101101011..blah, blah said about "automatically reboot" for diagnostic purposes.
When you blue-screen..it doesnt do any good troubleshooting a screen that just goes away a second later after it blows up. You need to be able to read it and have the user call you over when it happens so you can see what the problem is.
Some PC's dont start back up after a BSOD reboot so a memory dump becomes useless.. :
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Do the fundamental registry revert to its last good state. This is a different process than "last known good" and requires a bit of work:
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