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| Thread ID: 105029 | 2009-11-16 20:20:00 | Not booting | teras23 (15438) | Press F1 |
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| 830801 | 2009-11-18 22:58:00 | I have starforce installed on my PC for several games, and it hasn't given me any trouble. Possibly a file or registry key is corrupt in this case, causing problems. I would go here: www.star-force.com Uninstall starforce with the removal tool, and then reinstall it using the update tool. Of course this assumes you can actually boot the thing. Can you get into it in safe mode at all? do i have to install the programm on that computer or not because i can not get it on |
teras23 (15438) | ||
| 830802 | 2009-11-18 23:45:00 | Well that depends, first - are you getting the exact same stop code and sfsync02.sys listed? If yes, then most likely it is starforce's fault and you will need to fix it. if you are getting random errors each time, it's probably something else. Can you boot your windows at all, in safe mode or otherwise? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 830803 | 2009-11-19 21:01:00 | Well that depends, first - are you getting the exact same stop code and sfsync02.sys listed? If yes, then most likely it is starforce's fault and you will need to fix it. if you are getting random errors each time, it's probably something else. Can you boot your windows at all, in safe mode or otherwise? it is the same thing each time but i did not have that programm installed |
teras23 (15438) | ||
| 830804 | 2009-11-19 21:40:00 | Starforce gets installed when you install some PC games. Trackmania is one of them but there are many others. They often don't even tell you they are installing it, which is one reason why some people don't like it. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 830805 | 2009-11-19 22:38:00 | Starforce isnt installed with a later of version of trackamania tho. According to some sites. If it is installed, the latest version removes it | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 830806 | 2009-11-19 23:59:00 | Starforce isnt installed with a later of version of trackamania tho. According to some sites. If it is installed, the latest version removes it That is correct but we have no idea what version he might have, or even if he has that game. But if he has starforce drivers, then he must have installed some game which uses it. But either way, I think the solution here will be to load recovery console from the Windows CD or a live linux CD and rename the driver files so windows can't load them. Then this should stop them causing a BSOD, and allow for proper removal once windows can boot again |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 830807 | 2009-11-26 16:10:00 | That is correct but we have no idea what version he might have, or even if he has that game. But if he has starforce drivers, then he must have installed some game which uses it. But either way, I think the solution here will be to load recovery console from the Windows CD or a live linux CD and rename the driver files so windows can't load them. Then this should stop them causing a BSOD, and allow for proper removal once windows can boot again i had trackmania but how to get that programm out of the computer? |
teras23 (15438) | ||
| 830808 | 2009-11-26 23:41:00 | If you rename the driver files, windows can't load them. So it may at least allow you to boot windows and do a proper removal. But since you can't boot that windows, you will have to use a different method. Either 1) take the hard drive out and connect it to another computer, and rename that way 2) boot a live linux CD or the windows recovery console from a windows CD and rename them that way 1 will be hard because it's a laptop and you probably don't have any adaptor to connect a laptop drive to another PC, internal or external. 2 should be a bit easier. Do you have a Windows CD or any Linux CD (like Ubuntu)? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 830809 | 2009-11-30 22:34:00 | If you rename the driver files, windows can't load them. So it may at least allow you to boot windows and do a proper removal. But since you can't boot that windows, you will have to use a different method. Either 1) take the hard drive out and connect it to another computer, and rename that way 2) boot a live linux CD or the windows recovery console from a windows CD and rename them that way 1 will be hard because it's a laptop and you probably don't have any adaptor to connect a laptop drive to another PC, internal or external. 2 should be a bit easier. Do you have a Windows CD or any Linux CD (like Ubuntu)? where can i get the CDs if i do not have them (can i download it on my computer and burn it on a CD?) |
teras23 (15438) | ||
| 830810 | 2009-11-30 22:51:00 | If you do not have a windows CD then you can not download it - legally. But Linux is free and that would be easy to do, ubuntu should be fine, you can get it here: www.ubuntu.com (and you will get GUI instead of just command line from XP recovery console anyway) So once you burn and boot that on the laptop, you will be able to open the hard drive and have a look at the contents. Go to \Windows\System32\ and find that file "sfsync02.sys" (note the hard drive won't be called C: as Linux names things differently but it will be the only hard drive listed in the Computer folder anyway) Rename it to something like sfsync02.BAD and then reboot the computer. Hopefully, your XP will then skip loading of it (as it won't be able to find it) and then be able to boot without BSOD. |
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