Re: Automatic restart on system failure not working
- From: Joonas L. <JoonasL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 16:49:01 -0700
Gerry,
The STOP error is caused by an old Kerio Personal Firewall that is not fully
compatible with Windows XP. I have my own personal reasons for keeping this
program even if it does crash the computer sometimes (few times a month).
However, this is a bit irrelevant since the problem in hand is that XP does
not restart the computer on these errors even though I have set the option
for it to do so.
And it is not the firewall error, any blue screen stop will just stop, not
followed by a restart. The problem is that despite setting Windows to
automatically restart on system failure, it does not do so. And this is what
I would like to get fixed. Since this feature has worked a year ago on this
same computer, before reinstalling Windows a couple of months ago, I am
predicting this is some very bizarre setting inside Windows that is not
visible anywhere but is preventing this option from working correctly.
Hardware wise the changes that I have made since it did work are that I have
changed one hard drive, added one hard drive, added another 1 GB of memory
(now total 2 GB, type DDR2 PC-6400) and Ageia PhysX card.
Since I have had automatic restart disabled for most time I do not know when
it exactly stopped working, but I would like to enable it now.
"Gerry" wrote:
Joonas.
What have you done to resolve the problem causing the machine to
automatically restart. Why not post a complete copy of the Stop Error
Report
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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Joonas L. wrote:
Thank you for the reply, The Omen.
Unfortunately XP Smoker Pro trial version did not help with this
cause. I tested it using the CrashOnCtrlScroll trick, Windows went
into blue screen but did not automatically restart.
Seeing as there is an option to disable autoreboot in start up menu
(F8), this made me think that maybe the fact that Windows is
installed on different hard drive than where the boot loader is has
something to do with this issue.
The first hard drive which used to have Windows XP Home version is
used to boot up, but it start the Windows XP Pro from the second hard
drive. This is because when I installed XP Pro on the second hard
drive, it did not make itself bootable but only edited the boot list
of the first hard drive adding itself to the boot menu.
If I try to boot from the 2nd hard drive directly, I get message
saying NTLDR is missing. If there is a way I could add the boot
informaton to this hard drive too, I could try booting directly from
this and see if it has any difference. I suppose Recovery Console
could have something that might get this done, but I am not sure of
the commands.
For me it appears that all the settings are correct but Windows
will stop at the system failure, not restart like it should do.
I had a similar problem. Used XP Smoker Pro. You unfortunately have
to purchase it but it was worth it. You can try it with the trial
version and see if it works.
http://www.xp-smoker.com/
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