Hello everybody, I write here hoping somebody can help me solving a serious trouble I'm into with a new PC installation. System is composed as follows:
AMD Athlon K7 1,4Ghz FSB266 (not Athlon XP, the series AMD made before issuing XP!!)
Epox EP8K7A mobo
512 MB DDR RAM (Samsung)
Quantum Fireball AS 40GB UATA100
Pioneer EIDE DVD ROM 105SZ
Waitec Saurus EIDE CD-recorder
Hercules 3D Prophet II KyroII 64MB video card
Operating system is Win2k.
Everything runs fine installing operating system, VIA 4in1 4.35, video and audio drivers, SP2...then....after one week of shutdowns/restarts the fatal error: Windows2000 cannot start as the following file is missing or corrupt: WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM. And that's all.
MS article on the knowledgebase states that this issue can have two origins: the system hive being bigger than 23 MB or many DNS zones. I checked dimensions of the system hive in the \CONFIG directory (the hive identified as corrupt or missing) and it's normal: 2,5 megs.And the PC is not part of a network. So I started thinking of a hardware problem, or some disk controller incompatibility....the system ran stable for a week running all sorts of applications...scanning, printing, CD-Recording, performing all kinds of tests...no errors, nothing signalled on event viewers, no strange behaviors. The only thing I noticed is that the PC shuts down very very quickly, sometimes you don't even have the time to see the small window 'Windows is shutting down' and power is already down. I saw another thread on this forum where the error was different (STOP C0000218 due to loading of fragmented registry hives unsuccessful) but the 'victims' of this error claimed it had something to do with shutdown too fast. While putting up my system again the setup program kept telling me there was something wrong on the HD,no damaged clusters, just something that had been lost.I wonder if this is the case for system shutting down so fast that the system hive cannot be realigned correctly....please can someone help me? This problem's driving me nuts!!!! (excuse my poor english, I'm from Italy...)
AMD Athlon K7 1,4Ghz FSB266 (not Athlon XP, the series AMD made before issuing XP!!)
Epox EP8K7A mobo
512 MB DDR RAM (Samsung)
Quantum Fireball AS 40GB UATA100
Pioneer EIDE DVD ROM 105SZ
Waitec Saurus EIDE CD-recorder
Hercules 3D Prophet II KyroII 64MB video card
Operating system is Win2k.
Everything runs fine installing operating system, VIA 4in1 4.35, video and audio drivers, SP2...then....after one week of shutdowns/restarts the fatal error: Windows2000 cannot start as the following file is missing or corrupt: WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM. And that's all.
MS article on the knowledgebase states that this issue can have two origins: the system hive being bigger than 23 MB or many DNS zones. I checked dimensions of the system hive in the \CONFIG directory (the hive identified as corrupt or missing) and it's normal: 2,5 megs.And the PC is not part of a network. So I started thinking of a hardware problem, or some disk controller incompatibility....the system ran stable for a week running all sorts of applications...scanning, printing, CD-Recording, performing all kinds of tests...no errors, nothing signalled on event viewers, no strange behaviors. The only thing I noticed is that the PC shuts down very very quickly, sometimes you don't even have the time to see the small window 'Windows is shutting down' and power is already down. I saw another thread on this forum where the error was different (STOP C0000218 due to loading of fragmented registry hives unsuccessful) but the 'victims' of this error claimed it had something to do with shutdown too fast. While putting up my system again the setup program kept telling me there was something wrong on the HD,no damaged clusters, just something that had been lost.I wonder if this is the case for system shutting down so fast that the system hive cannot be realigned correctly....please can someone help me? This problem's driving me nuts!!!! (excuse my poor english, I'm from Italy...)