RE: AMD64 Reboot Fix!
From: superpt (superpt_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/04/04
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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 23:45:02 -0700
"BP" wrote:
> My original problem was that after installing SP2 and
> rebooting, the reboot would crash and and endless reboot-
> crash cycle would follow. I was able to boot into safe
> mode, however, and use system restore to get back to my
> previous working version of SP1 with little harm done.
> The cycle can be broken by turning off the auto-reboot
> feature in control panel*system*advanced. That allowed
> me to see the "blue screen of death" that told me I had
> error "stop:0X0000007E". Didn't mean much to me or to
> the MS support tech I was emailing either. He was nice
> but of little help. Turns out, my problem is that I have
> some sort of driver/device/hardware that offends the new
> DEP (Data Execution Prevention) "feature" enabled by SP2
> on AMD64 systems (hard to understand as I have a 4 month
> old PC with all the latest hardware, bios, drivers). NO
> idea what the underlying problem is, but the workaround
> is to disable DEP. Hey, it's not there under SP1 anyway
> so there's no losing much. To fix this, you have to semi-
> manually disable DEP. Here's what to do (you'll have to
> do this under safe mode after installing SP2 - assuming
> you can get there):
> 1. Open Control Panel
> 2. Go into System
> 3. Select Advanced Tab
> 4. Click Settings under Startup and Recover
> 5. Click Edit to edit the startup options file
> 6. On the last line, change:
> from "NoExecute=OptIn"
> to "NoExecute=AlwaysOff"
> 7. Save and close
> 8. Reboot
> After doing that, I was able to fully boot into SP2 and
> everything worked great. SP2 even recognized that I had
> Zonealarm and agreed to use that and turn off the native
> WinXP firewall - nice. My greatest quibble, again, is
> that the "blue screen of death" didn't give me any useful
> info as to what driver/hardware/etc. was causing the
> problem in the first place. DEP is, potentially, a very
> useful feature and it's bugging me that I had to turn it
> off to get my system to boot. Note: I didn't include any
> other hardware info on my system such as mobo, ram, etc.
> because it's irrelivent. This is solely a
> driver/hardware problem (as far as I can tell). Anyone
> saying that SP2 WON'T work on AMD or a particular bios or
> mobo or whatever with this particular problem is
> misinformed. Please spread the word, I've seen a LOT of
> posting all over the internet about this recurrent boot
> problem and a lot of crazy assertions...
> -BP
>
> PS: I DID find one additional problem. Opening control
> panel more than once caused an error screen to popup
> telling me that there was a problem with "netsetup.pcl".
> Annoying but nothing deadly - after ackowledging the
> error, control panel opened fine. To fix this (copied
> from a newsgroup somewhere after googling "netsetup.pcl"):
>
> "Microsoft came thru with a solution via email. It seems
> that at startup I was loading IPmon32 that apparently
> caused the conflict. I disabled IPmon32 via msconfig and
> do not have the netsetup.cpl error."
>
> Worked for me...
> -BP
>
Hey BP I did what your said about the netsetup.cpl error and it worked
great!!!
Thanks for the tid bit
but I am wondering .............what does the IPmon32 do and if it is
disabled on startup is is gonna cause me a problem down the road?
If you can help let me know thanks
Paul
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