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| Thread ID: 15374 | 2002-02-05 09:45:00 | Registry Problem on Startup | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 34464 | 2002-02-05 09:45:00 | Recently my PC has been coming up with message on startup 'Windows encountered an error accessing the system registry' also tells me Windows will restart. After a restart and the registry checker working a backup registry copy is restored and all works well. This keeps occurring once daily after the PC has rested for a long period (usually overnight or after some hours turned off). I was told that this could be due to 'flakey' RAM and so took out the single PC133 256Mb chip and replaced with some older PC100 64 Mb RAM which was part of the original PC. The PC133 had been working perfectly well for a long time prior to the startup problems. Although I have had one clean startup with the old RAM back in place the problem has returned. wHere to from here - do I have a serious problem or can I feel comfortable in the fact that a reboot with the registry checker and a restored clean copy of the registry will continue to save my bacon. I operate Windows 98 with a PII 350mHz chip. |
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| 34465 | 2002-02-05 10:07:00 | Dennis, Been working on my father's system recently, and it started out with that message - couldn't solve it. Did everything we (us at PressF1) could think of: formatting, reinstalling, trying new Win versions, etc. etc. and nothing could solve it. Then it progressed to the HDD not starting properly on startup. After a while I started getting CMOS Checksum errors, and so we've decided it was probably a BIOS problem, so the board is now away at the shop (luckily still under warranty). We'll see when it gets back if the problem is fixed! That reminds me, I haven't heard from them yet, and its been almost 2 weeks... they were just supposed to be replacing it. |
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| 34466 | 2002-02-05 10:28:00 | You can restore the registry when booted into dos by copying system.da0 to system.dat and user.da0 to user.dat (note that the 0 is a zero). The da0 files are backups of the last known good startup I think. Not too sure. You may first of all make a backup of system.dat & user.dat by copying it as system.bak and user.bak as these are the registry. These files should be found in the windows directory. |
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| 34467 | 2002-02-06 03:48:00 | Thanks for the tips people. I am working throguh a number of options. | Guest (0) | ||
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