Re: Win2k3 Boot Problem - No Desktop

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From: Zolo (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:30:37 -0800

I can always restore my system with the original CD,
running the "Repair" option (which is what I have always
done in the past and again last night). I am concerned as
to why this is consistently happening, though. This server
will run for a week or a few weeks just fine - uptime is
inconsistent (though it does keep reporting in the event
log that atapi and both the drives have a controller error
(HD controller is builtin to Mobo) - yet when I ran the
same system as Win2K, I didn't have this event log entry -
also, as further troubleshooting, I booted a seperate
partition under Mandrake and can't discern any hardware,
drive or driver issues - continuing troubleshooting, in
Win2k3, SiSoftSandra reports no drive problem and System
Mechanic can't find any hardware issues). I've searched
ABIT to see if there is an update to the BIOS thinking
maybe there is something low-level that Win2k3 is groking
that no one else can see - but I have the latest. I've also
got this computer up-to-date with all the Hotfixes and SP's.

Anything else you (or anyone) can think of??? What is
"SideBySide"??? Never heard of a service called that... Are
there some other T/S steps I can do the next time this
thing loses it's icons? I really don't like having to
"repair" from the original CD and have to re-apply updates
every time this thing decides that it don't like to show me
my icons. There's a reason this thing is crapping out and
I want it to stop! I would like to think that I'm
reasonably intelligent and with all my experience (over 20+
years in the industry....), it shouldn't really be this
hard. Anyone, let me know what else to look for - I can dig
deep and am not afraid of poking around in binary and such
(I'm an engineer, btw).

Zolo
>-----Original Message-----
>Does running the "Repair" option when booting from the CD
get the original
>files back onto the system?
>
>I've recently seen just ONE file, gdiplus.dll, that was
corrupted, and it
>made the system became quite unusable. It sounds like
you've got a load of
>them.
>
>--
>//David
>IIS
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>//
>"Zolo" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>news:12bdb01c3f699$0ae64c40$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>I am have a devil of a time with my Win2003 Enterprise
>Server. Once in a while, when I have to boot the computer
>for some reason (for example - today a squirrel suicide
>bomber took out a transformer and killed power long enough
>for my UPS to perform a shutdown of all servers...). When
>power was finally restored and I methodically rebooted all
>the servers, my 2003 box goes into the startup sequence -
>displays logon prompt - I authenticate - cursor turns to
>hourglass - the prompt goes away - the wallpaper displays -
>after a little while the cursor is again an arrow. BUT no
>desktop icons, no taskbar, nothing! I try CTRL-ALT-DEL and
>select Task Manager - nothing. I reboot into administrator
>account - same thing, nothing, no desktop other than the
>wallpaper. On another computer, I can connect via file
>manager (OK, showing my age - via Explorer) and view files,
>it's all there and looks normal. I can open MMC and connect
>- looking at the Event Viewer looks like everything was
>humming right along until a bunch of strange messages (most
>likely the culprit???...) that occured a couple of days ago
>(while no one was around this machine):
>EventID: 36 Source: SideBySide Description: The assembly
>x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.0.0_x-ww_1382D70A
>has missing or invalid files; recovery of this assembly
failed.
>EventID: 36 Source: SideBySide Description: The assembly
>x86_Microsoft.Windows.WinHTTP_6595b64144ccf1df_5.1.0.0_x-ww_E0651936
>has missing or invalid files; recovery of this assembly
>failed.
>EventID: 36 Source: SideBySide Description: The assembly
>x86_Microsoft.Windows.SystemCompatible_6595b64144ccf1df_5.2.0.0_x-ww_40208A0
>C
>has missing or invalid files; recovery of this assembly
failed.
>EventID: 36 Source: SideBySide Description: The assembly
>x86_Microsoft.Windows.SystemCompatible_6595b64144ccf1df_5.1.0.0_x-ww_FC342B0
>B
>has missing or invalid files; recovery of this assembly
failed.
>EventID: 36 Source: SideBySide Description: The assembly
>x86_Microsoft.Windows.IsolationAutomation_6595b64144ccf1df_1.0.0.0_x-ww_FD9D
>A872
>has missing or invalid files; recovery of this assembly
failed.
>EventID: 36 Source: SideBySide Description: The assembly
>x86_Microsoft.Windows.IsolationAutomation.ProxyStub_6595b64144ccf1df_1.0.0.0
>_x-ww_7CFAC880
>has missing or invalid files; recovery of this assembly
failed.
>EventID: 36 Source: SideBySide Description: The assembly
>x86_Microsoft.Windows.GdiPlus_6595b64144ccf1df_1.0.100.0_x-ww_0D1F9F94
>has missing or invalid files; recovery of this assembly
failed.
>EventID: 36 Source: SideBySide Description: The assembly
>x86_Microsoft.Windows.GdiPlus_6595b64144ccf1df_1.0.0.0_x-ww_8D353F13
>has missing or invalid files; recovery of this assembly
failed.
>EventID: 36 Source: SideBySide Description: The assembly
>x86_Microsoft.Windows.CPlusPlusRuntime_6595b64144ccf1df_7.0.100.0_x-ww_94AA2
>4EB
>has missing or invalid files; recovery of this assembly
failed.
> = = = = 4 hours pass; then = = = =
>EventID: 32 Source: SideBySide Description: Dependent
>Assembly Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls could not be
>found and Last Error was The referenced assembly is not
>installed on your system.
>EventID: 59 Source: SideBySide Description: Resolve
>Partial Assembly failed for
>Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls. Reference error message:
>The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.
>EventID: 59 Source: SideBySide Description: Generate
>Activation Context failed for
>F:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll. Reference error message:
>The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.
>EventID: 32 Source: SideBySide Description: Dependent
>Assembly Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls could not be
>found and Last Error was The referenced assembly is not
>installed on your system.
>EventID: 59 Source: SideBySide Description: Resolve
>Partial Assembly failed for
>Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls. Reference error message:
>The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.
>EventID: 59 Source: SideBySide Description: Generate
>Activation Context failed for
>F:\WINDOWS\system32\urlmon.dll. Reference error message:
>The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.
>EventID: 32 Source: SideBySide Description: Dependent
>Assembly Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls could not be
>found and Last Error was The referenced assembly is not
>installed on your system.
>EventID: 59 Source: SideBySide Description: Resolve
>Partial Assembly failed for
>Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls. Reference error message:
>The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.
>EventID: 59 Source: SideBySide Description: Generate
>Activation Context failed for
>F:\WINDOWS\system32\TAPI32.dll. Reference error message:
>The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.
> = = = = 5 hours pass and last sequence repeats = = = =
> = = = = 5 more hours, again a repeat = = = =
>OK, the sequence repeats in 5 hour intervals with minor
>variations in which of the DLLs in the system folder can't
>be found or recovered until the forced shutdown. All the
>files are system dependent and necessary files like
>shell32, shdocvw, urlmon (shows up in every seq), mlang,
>shlwapi - all having major components referenced in
>Explorer. Looking at the above sequence, it seems that
>something perhaps went awry somewhere in DOT NET? I
>recently updated the MSDN Library on this machine to the
>January 2004 library - it has Visual Studio 6 and Dot Net
>both (this is a developer server/work tool).
>
>This is the first time I've dug into looking for the
>culprit rather than just pulling out the install disk and
>doing a recover. This is the third or fourth time I lost
>the desktop on this machine. Anyone have any clue???
>
>This computer is running on an Abit KT7-RAID mobo, 900Mhz
>Duron, 768Mb PC133 RAM, 120Mb WD Hard Drive (one single
>megapartition NTFS - all Win2K3), a cheap NetworkEverywhere
>10/100 NIC, and a cheap SIS6326 AGP 2.0 w/ mere 8Mb video
>Ram. Just a work machine - ran stable as a Win2K, but
>upgraded to Win2k3 about 6 months ago - I've had problems
>ever since! I'm really getting frustrated with this problem
>and really don't like having to waste hours on going
>through the SETUP disk and re-installing some of the apps
>that have an issue with the recovery process. (Oh yeah, I
>didn't mention... ASR doesn't resolve this issue, either!)
>
>Thoroughly Confused... Sure would appreciate some insight
>or some more troubleshooting steps to take. Please help.
>Respond to l a s z l o AT l a n s c a p e DOT n e t
>(without all those darned spaces...) TIA
>
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