Dump and reboot continuously

[Guest]

Is there a way to tell WinXP home to NOT reboot on errors from the recovery
console? I tried to do a windows update and now windows won't boot past the
splash screen. It gives a blue screen but reboots too fast to read it. I have
had this repair successfully ONE time using a combination of CHKDSK /r and
the windows repair (like 3 times each) but the problem came back when the
windows update kicked in.

Thanks for any input

 

[Jon]

Have you tried the "last known good configuration" option (after tapping f8
on startup)

Jon

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply,
I tried that as well and get the same blue screen/restart

 

[Dave Patrick]

Control Panel|System|Advanced|Startup and Recovery, uncheck "Automatically
reboot"

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:
| Is there a way to tell WinXP home to NOT reboot on errors from the
recovery
| console? I tried to do a windows update and now windows won't boot past
the
| splash screen. It gives a blue screen but reboots too fast to read it. I
have
| had this repair successfully ONE time using a combination of CHKDSK /r and
| the windows repair (like 3 times each) but the problem came back when the
| windows update kicked in.
|
| Thanks for any input
|
|

 

[Guest]

Right, can't get to the control panel in either safemode or normal. The only
place I can go is to the recovery console without reboot. The dump/reboot
happens at the splash screen before entering windows.

Thanks for the reply

 

[Jon]

The registry key that needs changing is

AutoReboot

(Dword value 1 = Reboot enabled , 0 = disabled)

at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl

There are 3rd party utilities that you can download that you can use for
offline registry editing eg from a bootable floppy or cd

Jon

 

[Dave Patrick]

I don't know how much good this will do, but from a parallel install, run
regedt32.exe, then from the Local Machine Hive, choose Registry|Load Hive,
then navigate to the
%windir%\system32\config
directory on the other install, and find the system file, then Open, in the
Key Name box give it some temp name, then under tempname, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Select
and look in the Reg_Dword value of "Current", this is the current
controlset, then navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet00x\Control\CrashControl
Where x = the value of "Current" (found above) and set the values as follows

"AutoReboot"=dword:00000000
"CrashDumpEnabled"=dword:00000001
"LogEvent"=dword:00000001
"Overwrite"=dword:00000001
Then navigate back up to "tempname" and choose Unload Hive, and boot your
original install, Autoreboot is now turned off so you should be able to read
the stop error.

Bug Check Codes
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e..._f55acfed-3296-4e84-8885-c3162fd0ddbf.xml.asp

If nothing else you can at least recover your data from the parallel install
prior to rebuilding the operating system.

This article may also help you.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmc_str_jyof.asp


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
| Right, can't get to the control panel in either safemode or normal. The
only
| place I can go is to the recovery console without reboot. The dump/reboot
| happens at the splash screen before entering windows.
|
| Thanks for the reply

 

[Guest]

Thanks,
I'll look around for a utility

The registry key that needs changing is

AutoReboot

(Dword value 1 = Reboot enabled , 0 = disabled)

at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl

There are 3rd party utilities that you can download that you can use for
offline registry editing eg from a bootable floppy or cd

Jon

 

[Guest]

Thanks Dave,
I may have to use this if all else fails. I've already backed up the data
from this machine but "as usual" the owner lost their software recovery and
install disks so their software will be lost.

Thanks again for the reply

 

[Guest]

Any ideas who makes a good bootable registry editor??

Thanks

 

[Dave Patrick]

You're welcome.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Thanks Dave,
| I may have to use this if all else fails. I've already backed up the data
| from this machine but "as usual" the owner lost their software recovery
and
| install disks so their software will be lost.
|
| Thanks again for the reply

 

[Jon]

If you download the file bd050303.zip file from this page (in the download
section at the bottom)

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Extract it, insert a floppy, and click on the install.bat file to create a
bootable floppy
(press "a" when prompted for the drive)

Reboot (may need to change BIOS order to boot from floppy)

When the program has started enter.....

1 (to select appropriate partition number)
(press enter) (Press enter to accept default path to registry files)
system (loads the system hive)
9 (chooses Registry Editor)

cd Select (careful - Case sensitive for registry key names)
dir (look at value of "Current" key for Control set number,
as Dave suggested)

cd .. (goes up a level)
cd ControlSet003 (eg if the control set number was 3, yours may be
different)
cd Control
cd CrashControl
dir (shows current value of the AutoReboot
key)
ed AutoReboot (to edit the AutoReboot key)
0 (change value to 0 and press return)
q
q
y (NB Writes file - may produce error messages but still changes the
key )
n

Remove floppy and press ctrl-alt-delete to reboot

Jon

 

[Jon]

oops ...wrong link

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

Jon