156640 How to Troubleshoot a Stop 0xC0000218 Error Message
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314874 How to Troubleshoot a Stop 0xC0000218 Error
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A Stop 0xc0000218 error message means that a necessary registry hive file
could not be loaded. This error message can occur if the file is corrupt or
missing. To resolve this issue, you can reinstall the operating system and
restore the registry files from a backup. The registry files may have been
corrupted because of hard disk corruption or some other hardware problem.
This error message can also occur if the driver has corrupted the registry
data while loading into memory, or the memory where the registry is loading
has a parity error. In the latter case, turn off the external cache and
check the memory chips.
The behavior you've described (if you leave it off for a day and come back
to it, you can log in) seems to point at a hardware problem. It could be a
bad disk, bad controller, bad RAM, bad power supply, bad power controller
unit ...
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