Windows XP Pro will not boot up

October 14, 2008

I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried Safe mode

and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It appears to be

booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so quickly I cannot read

what it says. Is there any way to freeze the screen at that point? Does

anyone have any other suggestions?

Thank you.

October 14, 2008

RE: Windows XP Pro will not boot up

Go into your bios and change the halt on error option to halt on all errors,

once you have the error documented, change it back.

"Bob Johnson" wrote:

> I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried Safe mode

> and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It appears to be

> booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so quickly I cannot read

> what it says. Is there any way to freeze the screen at that point? Does

> anyone have any other suggestions?

>

> Thank you.

October 14, 2008

RE: Windows XP Pro will not boot up

Do you mean the Bios Setup Utility? If so where do I make the change? All I

can find is 'Wait for F1 if error', which is already enabled.

"sgopus" wrote:

> Go into your bios and change the halt on error option to halt on all errors,

> once you have the error documented, change it back.

>

> "Bob Johnson" wrote:

>

> > I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried Safe mode

> > and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It appears to be

> > booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so quickly I cannot read

> > what it says. Is there any way to freeze the screen at that point? Does

> > anyone have any other suggestions?

> >

> > Thank you.

October 14, 2008

Re: Windows XP Pro will not boot up

"Bob Johnson" <BobJohnson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:5A667030-58A6-455E-ADF3-705F84CCB72F@microsoft.com...

>I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried Safe

>mode

> and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It appears to be

> booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so quickly I cannot

> read

> what it says. Is there any way to freeze the screen at that point? Does

> anyone have any other suggestions?

>

> Thank you.

Hi Bob.

I don't know if sgopus's answer will be helpful or not since different

motherboards can have different BIOS setups.

The only thing I can think of is to try and press the Pause-Break button on

your keyboard right when the error pops up. Typically, it will pause the

startup proccess (BIOS POST) when you press this key. I'm hoping you'll be

able to do this quick enough in order to see your error. Other than that, I

can't think of anything. I don't know if the error you are seeing is

generated by windows or your BIOS.

HTH,

Jim

October 15, 2008

Re: Windows XP Pro will not boot up

Bob

Please post the complete Stop Error ( BSOD) Report.

Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by

allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on

the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,

Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before

Automatically Restart.

Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have

resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.

An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and select

option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry

~~~~

FCA

Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bob Johnson wrote:

> I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried

> Safe mode and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It

> appears to be booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so

> quickly I cannot read what it says. Is there any way to freeze the

> screen at that point? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

>

> Thank you.

October 15, 2008

Re: Windows XP Pro will not boot up

I ended up taking a digital picture of the screen. The error message is

Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}

The registry cannot load the hive (file):

\SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software

or its log or alternate.

It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.

Beginning dump of physical memory

Physical memory dump complete.

I have tried Article ID 830084 and checkdisk did find and repair at least 1

error but that did not fix the problem. I have seen it suggested that I could

try Article ID 307545 but it warns not to use it if using an OEM operating

system. I am using an OEM O/S. Any other suggestions or is it probably a

damaged hard drive?

"Gerry" wrote:

> Bob

>

> Please post the complete Stop Error ( BSOD) Report.

>

> Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by

> allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on

> the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,

> Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before

> Automatically Restart.

>

> Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have

> resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.

>

> An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and select

> option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.

>

> --

>

> Hope this helps.

>

> Gerry

> ~~~~

> FCA

> Stourport, England

> Enquire, plan and execute

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>

> Bob Johnson wrote:

> > I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried

> > Safe mode and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It

> > appears to be booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so

> > quickly I cannot read what it says. Is there any way to freeze the

> > screen at that point? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

> >

> > Thank you.

>

October 15, 2008

Re: Windows XP Pro will not boot up

Another Registry Cleaning Tool showing it's teeth

How to recover from a corrupt Registry if Windows does not start

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q307545

--

Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others

Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

"Bob Johnson" <BobJohnson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:214036B6-96E6-47EB-A64D-E47DFB2E360A@microsoft.com...

>I ended up taking a digital picture of the screen. The error message is

> Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}

> The registry cannot load the hive (file):

> \SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software

> or its log or alternate.

> It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.

>

> Beginning dump of physical memory

> Physical memory dump complete.

>

> I have tried Article ID 830084 and checkdisk did find and repair at least 1

> error but that did not fix the problem. I have seen it suggested that I could

> try Article ID 307545 but it warns not to use it if using an OEM operating

> system. I am using an OEM O/S. Any other suggestions or is it probably a

> damaged hard drive?

>

> "Gerry" wrote:

>

>> Bob

>>

>> Please post the complete Stop Error ( BSOD) Report.

>>

>> Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by

>> allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on

>> the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,

>> Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before

>> Automatically Restart.

>>

>> Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have

>> resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.

>>

>> An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and select

>> option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.

>>

>> --

>>

>> Hope this helps.

>>

>> Gerry

>> ~~~~

>> FCA

>> Stourport, England

>> Enquire, plan and execute

>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>>

>> Bob Johnson wrote:

>> > I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried

>> > Safe mode and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It

>> > appears to be booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so

>> > quickly I cannot read what it says. Is there any way to freeze the

>> > screen at that point? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

>> >

>> > Thank you.

>>

October 15, 2008

Re: Windows XP Pro will not boot up

This is the article that says do not try it if I am running an OEM installed

operating system, which I have.

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

> Another Registry Cleaning Tool showing it's teeth

>

> How to recover from a corrupt Registry if Windows does not start

>

> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q307545

>

> --

> Peter

>

> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others

> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

>

> "Bob Johnson" <BobJohnson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:214036B6-96E6-47EB-A64D-E47DFB2E360A@microsoft.com...

> >I ended up taking a digital picture of the screen. The error message is

> > Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}

> > The registry cannot load the hive (file):

> > \SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software

> > or its log or alternate.

> > It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.

> >

> > Beginning dump of physical memory

> > Physical memory dump complete.

> >

> > I have tried Article ID 830084 and checkdisk did find and repair at least 1

> > error but that did not fix the problem. I have seen it suggested that I could

> > try Article ID 307545 but it warns not to use it if using an OEM operating

> > system. I am using an OEM O/S. Any other suggestions or is it probably a

> > damaged hard drive?

> >

> > "Gerry" wrote:

> >

> >> Bob

> >>

> >> Please post the complete Stop Error ( BSOD) Report.

> >>

> >> Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by

> >> allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on

> >> the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,

> >> Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before

> >> Automatically Restart.

> >>

> >> Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have

> >> resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.

> >>

> >> An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and select

> >> option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.

> >>

> >> --

> >>

> >> Hope this helps.

> >>

> >> Gerry

> >> ~~~~

> >> FCA

> >> Stourport, England

> >> Enquire, plan and execute

> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> >>

> >> Bob Johnson wrote:

> >> > I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried

> >> > Safe mode and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It

> >> > appears to be booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so

> >> > quickly I cannot read what it says. Is there any way to freeze the

> >> > screen at that point? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

> >> >

> >> > Thank you.

> >>

>

October 15, 2008

Re: Windows XP Pro will not boot up

Bob

Do you have data files you need to recover? You need to resolve this

issue first. You may be able to recover the data by placing the hard

drive in another computer as a second (slave) drive and use the the

operating system from that computer to back up your data to removable

media. An alternative is to place the hard drive in an external cradle,

connect it to another computer and back up your data to removable media.

Background information on Stop Error message

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms797160.aspx

0xC0000218: UNKNOWN_HARD_ERROR

A necessary Registry hive file couldn't be loaded. The file may be

corrupt or missing (requiring either an Emergency Repair Disk or a

Windows reinstallation). The Registry files may have been corrupted

because of hard disk corruption or some other hardware problem. A driver

may have corrupted the Registry data while loading into memory, or the

memory where the Registry is loading may have a parity error (turn off

the external cache and check the physical RAM).

Source: http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

Do you have an Emergency Recovery Disk?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Repair_Disk

What do you have by way of a Windows XP CD? I think you will have to do

a new install of Windows XP.

I cannot say if it has been caused by a damaged hard drive. When you

tried chkdsk did it complete the process?

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry

~~~~

FCA

Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bob Johnson wrote:

> I ended up taking a digital picture of the screen. The error message

> is

> Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}

> The registry cannot load the hive (file):

> \SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software

> or its log or alternate.

> It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.

>

> Beginning dump of physical memory

> Physical memory dump complete.

>

> I have tried Article ID 830084 and checkdisk did find and repair at

> least 1 error but that did not fix the problem. I have seen it

> suggested that I could try Article ID 307545 but it warns not to use

> it if using an OEM operating system. I am using an OEM O/S. Any other

> suggestions or is it probably a damaged hard drive?

>

> "Gerry" wrote:

>

>> Bob

>>

>> Please post the complete Stop Error ( BSOD) Report.

>>

>> Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by

>> allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on

>> the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,

>> Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before

>> Automatically Restart.

>>

>> Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have

>> resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.

>>

>> An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and

>> select option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.

>>

>> --

>>

>> Hope this helps.

>>

>> Gerry

>> ~~~~

>> FCA

>> Stourport, England

>> Enquire, plan and execute

>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>>

>> Bob Johnson wrote:

>>> I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried

>>> Safe mode and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It

>>> appears to be booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears

>>> so quickly I cannot read what it says. Is there any way to freeze

>>> the screen at that point? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

>>>

>>> Thank you.

October 15, 2008

Re: Windows XP Pro will not boot up

I already have my data files backed up. I did a chkdsk and it did find at

least 1 error but that did not help the problem (I ran it twice).

Unfortunately, I do not have an Emergency Repair Disk, can I create one from

another computer?

If I do a new install without reformatting will the data files still be there?

Thank you.

"Gerry" wrote:

> Bob

>

> Do you have data files you need to recover? You need to resolve this

> issue first. You may be able to recover the data by placing the hard

> drive in another computer as a second (slave) drive and use the the

> operating system from that computer to back up your data to removable

> media. An alternative is to place the hard drive in an external cradle,

> connect it to another computer and back up your data to removable media.

>

> Background information on Stop Error message

> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms797160.aspx

>

> 0xC0000218: UNKNOWN_HARD_ERROR

> A necessary Registry hive file couldn't be loaded. The file may be

> corrupt or missing (requiring either an Emergency Repair Disk or a

> Windows reinstallation). The Registry files may have been corrupted

> because of hard disk corruption or some other hardware problem. A driver

> may have corrupted the Registry data while loading into memory, or the

> memory where the Registry is loading may have a parity error (turn off

> the external cache and check the physical RAM).

> Source: http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

>

> Do you have an Emergency Recovery Disk?

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Repair_Disk

>

> What do you have by way of a Windows XP CD? I think you will have to do

> a new install of Windows XP.

>

> I cannot say if it has been caused by a damaged hard drive. When you

> tried chkdsk did it complete the process?

>

> --

>

> Hope this helps.

>

> Gerry

> ~~~~

> FCA

> Stourport, England

> Enquire, plan and execute

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>

> Bob Johnson wrote:

> > I ended up taking a digital picture of the screen. The error message

> > is

> > Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}

> > The registry cannot load the hive (file):

> > \SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software

> > or its log or alternate.

> > It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.

> >

> > Beginning dump of physical memory

> > Physical memory dump complete.

> >

> > I have tried Article ID 830084 and checkdisk did find and repair at

> > least 1 error but that did not fix the problem. I have seen it

> > suggested that I could try Article ID 307545 but it warns not to use

> > it if using an OEM operating system. I am using an OEM O/S. Any other

> > suggestions or is it probably a damaged hard drive?

> >

> > "Gerry" wrote:

> >

> >> Bob

> >>

> >> Please post the complete Stop Error ( BSOD) Report.

> >>

> >> Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by

> >> allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on

> >> the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,

> >> Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before

> >> Automatically Restart.

> >>

> >> Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have

> >> resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.

> >>

> >> An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and

> >> select option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.

> >>

> >> --

> >>

> >> Hope this helps.

> >>

> >> Gerry

> >> ~~~~

> >> FCA

> >> Stourport, England

> >> Enquire, plan and execute

> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> >>

> >> Bob Johnson wrote:

> >>> I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried

> >>> Safe mode and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It

> >>> appears to be booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears

> >>> so quickly I cannot read what it says. Is there any way to freeze

> >>> the screen at that point? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

> >>>

> >>> Thank you.

>

October 16, 2008

Re: Windows XP Pro will not boot up

Just to let you and the others know I was able to get my hard drive to boot.

I did use the Article #307545 that was mentioned, only I used the 'Manual

steps' section. There was one part that did not work and that was trying to

get the System Volume Information file to open. I did not have a security tab

on mine so that part of the article did not work. I found a non Microsoft

article at

http://webcast.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=8658 that

helped with that part. Once I finished, the only issues I had were some

networking problems and I had to reinstall my security. Other than that all

seems to be working fine.

Thank you for all your responses.

"Gerry" wrote:

> Bob

>

> Do you have data files you need to recover? You need to resolve this

> issue first. You may be able to recover the data by placing the hard

> drive in another computer as a second (slave) drive and use the the

> operating system from that computer to back up your data to removable

> media. An alternative is to place the hard drive in an external cradle,

> connect it to another computer and back up your data to removable media.

>

> Background information on Stop Error message

> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms797160.aspx

>

> 0xC0000218: UNKNOWN_HARD_ERROR

> A necessary Registry hive file couldn't be loaded. The file may be

> corrupt or missing (requiring either an Emergency Repair Disk or a

> Windows reinstallation). The Registry files may have been corrupted

> because of hard disk corruption or some other hardware problem. A driver

> may have corrupted the Registry data while loading into memory, or the

> memory where the Registry is loading may have a parity error (turn off

> the external cache and check the physical RAM).

> Source: http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

>

> Do you have an Emergency Recovery Disk?

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Repair_Disk

>

> What do you have by way of a Windows XP CD? I think you will have to do

> a new install of Windows XP.

>

> I cannot say if it has been caused by a damaged hard drive. When you

> tried chkdsk did it complete the process?

>

> --

>

> Hope this helps.

>

> Gerry

> ~~~~

> FCA

> Stourport, England

> Enquire, plan and execute

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>

> Bob Johnson wrote:

> > I ended up taking a digital picture of the screen. The error message

> > is

> > Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}

> > The registry cannot load the hive (file):

> > \SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software

> > or its log or alternate.

> > It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.

> >

> > Beginning dump of physical memory

> > Physical memory dump complete.

> >

> > I have tried Article ID 830084 and checkdisk did find and repair at

> > least 1 error but that did not fix the problem. I have seen it

> > suggested that I could try Article ID 307545 but it warns not to use

> > it if using an OEM operating system. I am using an OEM O/S. Any other

> > suggestions or is it probably a damaged hard drive?

> >

> > "Gerry" wrote:

> >

> >> Bob

> >>

> >> Please post the complete Stop Error ( BSOD) Report.

> >>

> >> Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by

> >> allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on

> >> the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,

> >> Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before

> >> Automatically Restart.

> >>

> >> Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have

> >> resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.

> >>

> >> An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and

> >> select option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.

> >>

> >> --

> >>

> >> Hope this helps.

> >>

> >> Gerry

> >> ~~~~

> >> FCA

> >> Stourport, England

> >> Enquire, plan and execute

> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> >>

> >> Bob Johnson wrote:

> >>> I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried

> >>> Safe mode and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It

> >>> appears to be booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears

> >>> so quickly I cannot read what it says. Is there any way to freeze

> >>> the screen at that point? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

> >>>

> >>> Thank you.

>

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