Re: BSOD and Reboots

mcp6453 wrote:
John John wrote:



mcp6453 wrote:

PD43 wrote:

On Jun 12, 6:05 pm, mcp6453 <mcp6...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dave B. wrote:

Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't, you may not have it.




It's not there.

I tried the techniques I mentioned, but I cannot start the recovery
console. It rejects the Administrator password, which is blank. (The
bootable Linux CD used for password changes confirms that the password
is blank.)

What next?





Have you tried to enter Safe Mode via the F8 options?

What was that about an image being successfully created? How long
ago? Can you restore from that image?



Nothing has worked. I was finally able to boot into the Recovery Console using a CD made from an ISO I got from somewhere. (This factory installation of XP Home was apparently created with Sysprep so I cannot log into the Recovery Console with a regular XP installation CD.)

I copied ntldr and ntdetect.com to the boot drive and rebuilt boot.ini. The computer has two memory modules, so I tried to boot with one at a time, in case one is defective, but I got the same results.

Is there a way to turn off automatic reboot without being able to boot into Windows? The option is not listed with F8.



*** Build your Bart PE disk and include a registry plug-in with it. When you boot with it open the System hive of the broken installation and change the AutoReboot REG_DWORD value to 0 at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSetnnn\Control\CrashControl

The hive will be in the %systemroot%\system32\config folder. The hive you want to load is the SYSTEM hive (without an extension). You will not see a "CurrentControlSet" when you edit an offline registry, you will only see ControlSetnnn, as ControlSet001, ControlSet002, ControlSet003... To determine which one of the ControlSetnnn will load when you boot the installation go to the "Select" key and note the reference number in the Default: REG_DWORD, then edit the corresponding ControlSet. If the Default: REG_DWORD is "0x1" then edit CurrentControlSet001. You can edit all of the ControlSetnnn sets if you want, it wont hurt anything to have the AutoReboot disabled in all ControlSets.

John



Problem sort of solved. I got into the registry and set the machine so that it did not automatically reboot. The error code was session5_initialization_failed. Apparently a virus or application trashed ntoskrnl.exe and/or ntdll.dll. I expanded and restored them from i386.

There are other problems that will probably cause a reinstall, but it has been a good exercise. Thanks for all the help!

You're welcome.

John
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