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| Thread ID: 31726 | 2003-03-30 02:21:00 | Win 2k keeps restarting before Logon | Ashley Matthews (550) | Press F1 |
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| 132098 | 2003-03-30 02:21:00 | Hey, I had a system running Windows 2000 that worked perfectly. When I installed a few programs and updates - namely SP3, Office XP and Winzip, and I restarted the computer (as it tells you to do for the installation, i found that my computer will no longer boot into windows. Instead it goes through both of the loading screens and then quickly flashes to a blue screen that is gone before I can read it or press the pause button. The computer then restarts itself. Any suggestions please? |
Ashley Matthews (550) | ||
| 132099 | 2003-03-30 03:30:00 | Try an F8 start to Safe Mode. If you can get it started that way, disable the "auto-restart when crash" option. Or if you can boot so you can edit boot.ini, you could add " /bootlog" to the OS entry. That might get you the evidence. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 132100 | 2003-03-30 04:00:00 | or "boot with command prompt" will show a verbose boot, which might shed some light on whereabouts the boot process gets to before the problem arises. once booted into safe mode, right click on "my computer" and then click "manage" and open up the event viewer and look through your event logs, you might be able to determine even more from there... |
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| 132101 | 2003-03-30 09:43:00 | I learnt the hard way that adding new programs and tweaking cleaning up excess files etc are best done with a revert prog was using GoBack but found it thrashed my HDD too much so now just do a complete image oc my C: drive using Drive Image 2002 saved onto a cdr plus another HDD means a 6 minute reinstall instead of 10 to 15 hours hours wasted | kiwibeat (304) | ||
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