Another WinXP Boot Problem!

[BTInternet]

Windows XP has decided to crash part way through booting with a blue screen
that passes too quick to read. It will however boot ok in to Safe mode. I
have rune the boot log and as a first step need some help working out what
is important there. I get a mixed up bunch of "Loaded driver" and "Did not
load driver" listings. Many of them multiple times even though I clear the
bootlog file each time. So how do I identify the rogue line when they are
all randomly sequenced?

Anything else I should do to tracke down the culprit!!


THanks JOhn I

 

[Gerry Cornell]

John

I would look in Event Viewer at the logged errors.

1. To open Event Viewer, click Start, click Control Panel, double-click
Administrative Tools, double-click Event Viewer and select System for system
errors or Application for application errors. Look for Error in the Type
column and double click on Error to reveal a Description of the error. This
can be copied by using Clipboard Viewer (see later).

2. Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you
should double click for further information and you can copy using copy and
paste.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

3. For some errors you will find "+ Related Knowledge Base Article", which
if double clicked takes you to the Knowledge Base Article containing a
suggested solution.

There always seems to be a step 2 but not always a step 3.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports (Step 1). Run Event Viewer and
double click on the error you want to copy. In the window which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event Viewer.
Now start your message ( email )and do a paste into the body of the message.
This will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report complete with
links into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer. It can be helpful to place a shortcut to Event Viewer on your
Desktop.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[BTInternet]

Thanks for the feedback Gerry - I seem to have fixed it somehow but your
advise will be useful because this is a common issue I come across. I'm not
sure what the real solution was but it seems it may have been a PCI board
dislodged in transit. I cleared all services and startups which did not help
then reseated all baords and connectors. So I guess a driver may have tried
to load on a faulty hardware connection. But as I said I appreciate your
feedback and have filed it for future use. Regards John I

John

I would look in Event Viewer at the logged errors.

1. To open Event Viewer, click Start, click Control Panel, double-click
Administrative Tools, double-click Event Viewer and select System for system
errors or Application for application errors. Look for Error in the Type
column and double click on Error to reveal a Description of the error. This
can be copied by using Clipboard Viewer (see later).

2. Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you
should double click for further information and you can copy using copy and
paste.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

3. For some errors you will find "+ Related Knowledge Base Article", which
if double clicked takes you to the Knowledge Base Article containing a
suggested solution.

There always seems to be a step 2 but not always a step 3.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports (Step 1). Run Event Viewer and
double click on the error you want to copy. In the window which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event Viewer.
Now start your message ( email )and do a paste into the body of the message.
This will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report complete with
links into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer. It can be helpful to place a shortcut to Event Viewer on your
Desktop.

--
~~~~~~


Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FCA
(e-mail address removed)
Stourport, Worcs, England
Enquire, plan and execute.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please tell the newsgroup how any
suggested solution worked for you.

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