Re: Server bootup problems

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:17:04 -0800

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try it.

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> This may help.
>
> http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/regmon.shtml
>
> --
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>
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> "G. D. Klein" wrote:
> |I am facing the same problem as Mujahid Iqbal. This has become a recurrent
> | nightmare for me. I have yet to satisfactorily recover from this problem
> and
> | I am looking for the cause of the C:\winnt\system32\config\system file
> | growing to an abnormally large size. I suspect that the source of the
> | problem is related to one of three hardware components: the motherboard,
> the
> | processor or the video card and/or the software and drivers associated
> with
> | those components.
> |
> | I recently rebuilt my system and replaced all three components and then
> did
> | a clean install starting with a repartitioned and formatted hard drive
> with
> | all data files stored on a second hard drive. Before installing any
> | applications software, I downloaded and installed all windows 2k and IE 6
> | updates and patches along with updating all the drivers for all hardware
> | componenets and peripherals.
> |
> | When I finished installing my applications software library, I checked the
> | problem "system" file and it was about 4 MB in size. From that point, the
> | size of the system file steadily grows and within two to three weeks on
> | average, it reaches sufficient size to overload the 16 MB memory limit in
> the
> | text phase of the boot.
> |
> | This process has repeated four times and the current size of the "system"
> | file is 17.9 MB. I am going to try to follow the instructions in the
> | knowlege base to reduce the size of the system hive before I have to
> resart
> | but I consider that to only be a make do solution because it does not
> address
> | the cause of the obese system file.
> |
> | My hardware configuration includes a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro 2 motherboard
> | with an AMD Athalon XP 2600+ processor and a Raedon 9200 SE Graphics Card
> | plus two 512 MB sticks of Geil DDR PC-3200 memory. Other hardare and
> entire
> | software suite are same as before computer upgrade.
> |
> | Win 2K had run almost flawlessly for 3 years on the old computer before
> | hardware upgrade. I even had MS Visual Studio.net installed before
> upgrade
> | and that is a massive software package when you add the MSDN library and
> | still no problems. Since the upgrade, the longest period without a boot
> | failure has been three weeks. Each time before, I have ended up having to
> do
> | a clean install rather than a reinstall because each time I did a
> reinstall,
> | I had frequent freeze-up problems requiring a hard shutdown and powerup.
> |
> | I have even tried a different hard drive as my boot drive in a futile
> quest
> | for a solution to the problem.
> |
> | If anyone has an idea what is causing the system file to balloon in size
> or
> | if anyone is having similar problems that they can associate with one of
> the
> | hardware components I listed, please respond on this board or via email to
> my
> | hotmail.com account user id gdonklein.
> |
> | Thanks,
> | Gary
>
>
>

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