Problem with windows startup with update KB908523

[nfhm2k]

I have a system here that will not startup windows correctly since
today.

What it does is it starts up, has the black and white win2k loading
screen, then the win2k loading splash screen, after that the background
for the logon screen appears (green), then it goes to a black screen,
with a blinking cursor, and simply reboots back into bios and does it
over again.

After booting the system up using ERD Commander and discovering that
before it started to do this, the update KB908523 was issued, the
system was rebooted, and since then its had this problem.

Apart from formatting and reinstalling, what can I do to recover the
system from this problem?

 

[kenkyee]

After booting the system up using ERD Commander and discovering that
before it started to do this, the update KB908523 was issued, the
system was rebooted, and since then its had this problem.
Apart from formatting and reinstalling, what can I do to recover the
system from this problem?

There's a way to uninstall updates via the command line using the
repair console, but I can't remember how to do it. You can probably
Google for it.

I just restore back to a previous image (Acronis TrueImage is awesome


I have a similar problem on my Win2K system. I think MS's testing has
gone way downhill. If I install this KB908523 update, Win2K stalls
halfway through
the white bootup screen w/ the green status bar at the bottom.

What's worse is that if I install WinXP on this system, then run
through
all the Windows Updates, it locks up as well. I suspect it's some
hardware
incompatibility MS didn't test for since it happens w/ both Win2K and
XP.

For the record, my system is:
Chaintech 7KDD w/ dual athlon
Intel Pro network card
SB Audigy
Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card
Seagate Cheetah drive

Even if you tell Windows to show you the boot process by booting in
safe mode, it doesn't tell you what it's doing when it crashes...it
points to
a bogus file when displaying the drivers it's loading...


ken

 

[dave.garland]

After booting the system up using ERD Commander and discovering that
before it started to do this, the update KB908523 was issued, the
system was rebooted, and since then its had this problem.

Apart from formatting and reinstalling, what can I do to recover the
system from this problem?

KB908523 killed my system: "Windows 2000 could not start because the
following file is missing or corrupt. <Windows 2000
root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe."

Only thing to do was boot from CD and do a repair install.
(Fortunately I'd made a bootable copy of the W2K CD.) That doesn't
lose data, but then Windows Update finds about 25 updates you need to
reinstall. And one of them is KB908523, and if you let it install that
the same thing happens again, I did it about 5 times until I narrowed
the problem down to that patch, it is very repeatable. (FWIW that
patch is for a security vulnerability that requires console access, it
is not a remote vulnerability, so in many cases it is not too serious.
I can live without it.)

(ASRock K7S41GX MB, Sempron 2200+, 512M RAM)

-Dave

 

[Guest]

I have more or les the same problem. My computer crashes with the blue
screen of death on boot up since installing this. Fortunately, I was able to
get up in safe mode and remove it. My icons are still messed up. Does anyone
know a way to make update not try to reinstall this update in the future