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| 466860 | 2006-06-28 06:53:00 | My system is: Athon 64 3500 1GB Ram 160 GB SATA HD GeForce 7800GT Graphics. HD is partitioned by XP to run 2 OS’s & a data partition. The OS’s are both XP Pro sp1 One is used for office & the other for gaming. Both accessed by standard XP duel boot. Office has the internet con, anti virus, anti spy etc. Gamer has only the basics. I use it mainly for driving simulators & it goes very well. This combination normally works very well. Twice when I have been out of the room the gamer has shut down, tried to reboot & come up with: Unable to start because of missing or corrupt: “WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM” file. I was still able to boot into office & find the suspect file but not able to view it or open it with any associate programme. I’ve had to reinstall the OS to the gamer partition to fix the problem both times. Chances are this will happen again, any ideas? |
rocky138 (10636) | ||
| 466861 | 2006-06-28 18:59:00 | The only time I ever had that error was on a pc company machine that had a dodgy mainboard/ram...never found a way to repair windows as that file seems to be compiled during the install...hopefully someone else can tell you more :( | straitjacket (9698) | ||
| 466862 | 2006-06-28 21:53:00 | HD is partitioned by XP to run 2 OS’s & a data partition. The OS’s are both XP Pro sp1 One is used for office & the other for gaming. Both accessed by standard XP duel boot. Office has the internet con, anti virus, anti spy etc. Gamer has only the basics. I use it mainly for driving simulators & it goes very well. Why would you do that? I can't see any reason for dual booting the same O/S. Are you on broadband? If so booting with no AV etc is asking for trouble. And I'm not surprised XP has a problem often. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 466863 | 2006-06-28 22:49:00 | generally speaking that error messages means the registry is corupt or missing. whats causeing it to be corupt......thats the tricky bit. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 466864 | 2006-06-29 00:59:00 | Why would you do that? I can't see any reason for dual booting the same O/S. Are you on broadband? If so booting with no AV etc is asking for trouble. And I'm not surprised XP has a problem often. The gaming os has no internet con & runs no installed sofware other than the os & device drivers. This is to get the maximum into the games. Even the games themselves are intalled onto the data partition. I have run several other systems like this. The main differences are: This has a SATA HD & I have partitioned with XP instead of Partition Magic. |
rocky138 (10636) | ||
| 466865 | 2006-06-29 01:08:00 | generally speaking that error messages means the registry is corupt or missing . whats causeing it to be corupt . . . . . . thats the tricky bit . My wife saw it the first time it died & said it was doing a memory dump . Both times it was left with a game running but paused at the start of a new event . |
rocky138 (10636) | ||
| 466866 | 2006-06-29 03:32:00 | Run a memory tester. If data are being corrupted, it's often flakey memory. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 466867 | 2006-06-29 03:53:00 | Run a memory tester. If data are being corrupted, it's often flakey memory. Memory tester? What would recomend. |
rocky138 (10636) | ||
| 466868 | 2006-06-29 03:55:00 | The gaming os has no internet con & runs no installed sofware other than the os & device drivers. This is to get the maximum into the games. Even the games themselves are intalled onto the data partition. I have run several other systems like this. The main differences are: This has a SATA HD & I have partitioned with XP instead of Partition Magic. This is the same pc using the same hardware, how is the pc connected to the internet?, router?, any pc connected to a router has internet connection... I cant see this as a memory problem as the same memory is used on the other o/s. With no a/v on the game o/s, i would imagine nasties are the cause on the problem. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 466869 | 2006-06-29 04:17:00 | It has a physical connection to the box. But much more than that is needed. Unless the network software is setup in an OS and enabled there is no "Internet connection". Games are likely to use more memory than Office applications. I hope that office applications which use all of 1GB are rare, even with a memory hungry OS. Memory is always a suspect. Memtest86, and Memtest86+ are good bets. Free. Just make sure to get the correct image file to make a bootable floppy, or CD. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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