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mike
I had several system crashes that turned out to be caused by bad ram.
But fixing the ram didn't eliminate the crashes. I get a light blue
screen for an instant before it goes black and starts beeping at me.
To complicate matters, the crashes have been in VirtualPC.
Don't know how long the ram errors have been accumulating, so rather
than restore a backup, I thought I'd try to run SFC.exe.
SFC asks for my XP Pro CD. I have XP HOME OEM on a laptop.
The disk that came with the laptop was XP home sp1 which
I slipstreamed sp2 into before I loaded it.
I stuck in an XP PRO disk, and it didn't like that either.
So, I stuck my XP Home disk (slipstreamed to sp2) back in and clicked
retry about a dozen
times until it quit asking and the progress bar started to move.
It periodicallly asked me to insert the CD, which was already inserted.
I clicked retry, and it kept going. It was accessing the CD.
About half way thru the progress bar,
it started asking for my XP HOME CD, which was already in there.
I kept clicking retry when the box came up and it finally finished.
The system runs, but I haven't run it long enough to know if it's
gonna crash.
But I'm concerned that running SFC may have done more harm than good.
I have several backups, but I've invested a lot of time in cleaning up
this instance. Since I don't have confidence in the recent backups,
cause of the bad ram problem, I'd have to go way back and redo a bunch
of installs.
What should I do from here?
thanks, mike
But fixing the ram didn't eliminate the crashes. I get a light blue
screen for an instant before it goes black and starts beeping at me.
To complicate matters, the crashes have been in VirtualPC.
Don't know how long the ram errors have been accumulating, so rather
than restore a backup, I thought I'd try to run SFC.exe.
SFC asks for my XP Pro CD. I have XP HOME OEM on a laptop.
The disk that came with the laptop was XP home sp1 which
I slipstreamed sp2 into before I loaded it.
I stuck in an XP PRO disk, and it didn't like that either.
So, I stuck my XP Home disk (slipstreamed to sp2) back in and clicked
retry about a dozen
times until it quit asking and the progress bar started to move.
It periodicallly asked me to insert the CD, which was already inserted.
I clicked retry, and it kept going. It was accessing the CD.
About half way thru the progress bar,
it started asking for my XP HOME CD, which was already in there.
I kept clicking retry when the box came up and it finally finished.
The system runs, but I haven't run it long enough to know if it's
gonna crash.
But I'm concerned that running SFC may have done more harm than good.
I have several backups, but I've invested a lot of time in cleaning up
this instance. Since I don't have confidence in the recent backups,
cause of the bad ram problem, I'd have to go way back and redo a bunch
of installs.
What should I do from here?
thanks, mike