Guest Dave Marden Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 At work we have several pc's that use windows 2000 professional for vision systems, and for some reason when we have to shut down our sub-stations invertently one of our pc's gets the bsod and upon restarting the pc's say that the system file is corrupt. We have about 100 pc's and it wouldn't be very possible to physically go around and shut off all the pc's as this would require too much manpower and it would be less expensive to just replace the pc and replace the hard drive and ghost the new one for later use. I am wondering if anyone has any ideas as to what would be causing this. I suspect dirty hard drives, as I work in a foundry. Any help would be appreciated. If the problem is the hard drives is it possible to use a USB hard drive as our primary hard drive, or another type of hard drive which is impervious to being dirty? Dave Marden
Guest Dave Patrick Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 Re: Blue Screen Of Death System File Corrupt If the system hive is corrupt, and assuming you already tried LKG (F8 and choose Last Known Good), It may be possible to rename the system hive found in %systemroot%\system32\config\system to system.old then rename %systemroot%\system32\config\system.alt to %systemroot%\system32\config\system You can also try using the most recent backup found in %systemroot%\repair\regback If that fails you haven't much choice but to copy/ use the original-as-installed system hive from %systemroot%\repair\system to %systemroot%\system32\config\system You'll need to reinstall the device drivers for any hardware added since the original OS install. To start the Recovery Console, start the computer from the Windows 2000 Setup CD or the Windows 2000 Setup floppy disks. If you do not have Setup floppy disks and your computer cannot start from the Windows 2000 Setup CD, use another Windows 2000-based computer to create the Setup floppy disks. At the "Welcome to Setup" screen. Press F10 or R to repair a Windows 2000 installation, and then press C to use the Recovery Console. The Recovery Console then prompts you for the administrator password. If you do not have the correct password, Recovery Console does not allow access to the computer. If an incorrect password is entered three times, the Recovery Console quits and restarts the computer. Note If the registry is corrupted or missing or no valid installations are found, the Recovery Console starts in the root of the startup volume without requiring a password. You cannot access any folders, but you can carry out commands such as chkdsk, fixboot, and fixmbr for limited disk repairs. Once the password has been validated, you have full access to the Recovery Console, but limited access to the hard disk. You can only access the following folders on your computer: drive root, %systemroot% or %windir% Make sure that your drive controller has Write Cache disabled. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=281672 We use them in all areas of coal mining (very dirty, dusty conditions) and don't have this problem. Usually we see the case cooling paths blocked causing mobo and or power supply failures and of course floppy drives that never work because of the coal dust. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Dave Marden" wrote: > At work we have several pc's that use windows 2000 professional for vision > systems, and for some reason when we have to shut down our sub-stations > invertently one of our pc's gets the bsod and upon restarting the pc's say > that the system file is corrupt. We have about 100 pc's and it wouldn't > be very possible to physically go around and shut off all the pc's as this > would require too much manpower and it would be less expensive to just > replace the pc and replace the hard drive and ghost the new one for later > use. > > I am wondering if anyone has any ideas as to what would be causing this. > I suspect dirty hard drives, as I work in a foundry. Any help would be > appreciated. If the problem is the hard drives is it possible to use a > USB hard drive as our primary hard drive, or another type of hard drive > which is impervious to being dirty? > > Dave Marden >
Guest Dave Marden Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 Re: Blue Screen Of Death System File Corrupt Thanks, I will try what you suggested and get back with you. Thanks, Dave "Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@nospam.gmail.com> wrote in message news:9F22AB39-50DB-446F-94AB-39F2BD7410A8@microsoft.com... > If the system hive is corrupt, and assuming you already tried LKG (F8 and > choose Last Known Good), It may be possible to rename the system hive > found in > %systemroot%\system32\config\system > to system.old > then rename > %systemroot%\system32\config\system.alt > to > %systemroot%\system32\config\system > > You can also try using the most recent backup found in > %systemroot%\repair\regback > > If that fails you haven't much choice but to copy/ use the > original-as-installed system hive from > %systemroot%\repair\system > to > %systemroot%\system32\config\system > You'll need to reinstall the device drivers for any hardware added since > the original OS install. > > To start the Recovery Console, start the computer from the Windows 2000 > Setup CD or the Windows 2000 Setup floppy disks. If you do not have Setup > floppy disks and your computer cannot start from the Windows 2000 Setup > CD, use another Windows 2000-based computer to create the Setup floppy > disks. At the "Welcome to Setup" screen. Press F10 or R to repair a > Windows 2000 installation, and then press C to use the Recovery Console. > The Recovery Console then prompts you for the administrator password. If > you do not have the correct password, Recovery Console does not allow > access to the computer. If an incorrect password is entered three times, > the Recovery Console quits and restarts the computer. Note If the registry > is corrupted or missing or no valid installations are found, the Recovery > Console starts in the root of the startup volume without requiring a > password. You cannot access any folders, but you can carry out commands > such as chkdsk, fixboot, and fixmbr for limited disk repairs. Once the > password has been validated, you have full access to the Recovery Console, > but limited access to the hard disk. You can only access the following > folders on your computer: drive root, %systemroot% or %windir% > > > Make sure that your drive controller has Write Cache disabled. > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=281672 > > We use them in all areas of coal mining (very dirty, dusty conditions) and > don't have this problem. Usually we see the case cooling paths blocked > causing mobo and or power supply failures and of course floppy drives that > never work because of the coal dust. > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. > Microsoft Certified Professional > Microsoft MVP [Windows] > http://www.microsoft.com/protect > > "Dave Marden" wrote: >> At work we have several pc's that use windows 2000 professional for >> vision systems, and for some reason when we have to shut down our >> sub-stations invertently one of our pc's gets the bsod and upon >> restarting the pc's say that the system file is corrupt. We have about >> 100 pc's and it wouldn't be very possible to physically go around and >> shut off all the pc's as this would require too much manpower and it >> would be less expensive to just replace the pc and replace the hard drive >> and ghost the new one for later use. >> >> I am wondering if anyone has any ideas as to what would be causing this. >> I suspect dirty hard drives, as I work in a foundry. Any help would be >> appreciated. If the problem is the hard drives is it possible to use a >> USB hard drive as our primary hard drive, or another type of hard drive >> which is impervious to being dirty? >> >> Dave Marden >> >
Guest Dave Patrick Posted September 3, 2007 Posted September 3, 2007 Re: Blue Screen Of Death System File Corrupt You're welcome. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Dave Marden" wrote: > Thanks, I will try what you suggested and get back with you. > > Thanks, > Dave
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