stop message after installing SP4

[Jason Custance]

Installed service pack 4 and after restarting comes up with a stop (cant
read this as disappears to quickly and unable to pause)

How do I find out what the message is saying?

I have tried last know good configuration, running the repair option, safe
mode etc and done of them work.

Is they anyway to to remove sp4 from the command prompt if you told it to
archive the files when originally installing the service pack.

Any help or advice more help.

Thanks

 

[Paul McGuire]

On my server i had the same problem. I ran the repair and still the same
problem. Turned arround and ran the repair a second time and it fixed the
problem.

HTH

Paul McGuire

 

[George Hester]

Jeeze there is a way to enable boot logging in your boot.ini file but I
cannot find it. It is just a switch maybe someone will know. You can do it
in Safe Mode but that is not really what you want I don't think:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winntas/maintain/mngntreg/regtwk.asp?frame=true

 

[Carrie Garth \(MVP\)]

Hi Jason,

Q1: "stop (cant read this as disappears to quickly and unable to pause) ... How do I
find out what the message is saying?"

A1: It sound like the Automatically Reboot option is enabled under Recovery on the
Startup/Shutdown tab in System properties. To disable the Automatically Reboot
option would require performing a parallel install of Windows 2000, then editing the
registry of the original Windows installation. For more information see the first
steps six steps in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base Article that explain how to
disable the Automatically Reboot option.

KB174630 - Windows Restarts Continuously with Blue Screen
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=174630

Q2: "Is they anyway to to remove sp4 from the command prompt if you told it to
archive the files"

I am unable to find a Microsoft Knowledge Base Article on the subject. But according
to "Joseph Conway (MSFT)", there is a way to remove it from the Recovery Console.
Here is a copy/paste of a recent newsgroup post on the subject:

----- Begin Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Conway (MSFT)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 06:05 AM
Subject: Re: Service Pack 4 for Windows 2000
Google Link to thread:
http://www.google.com/groups?&[email protected]

Can you boot into safe mode? Did you have antivirus running during install?
IF you can get into safe mode, uninstall the SP and reboot. If not, boot
into recovery console and browse to the $NTServicePackUninstall$ directory
and run the manual uninstall .bat file that was created, assuming you kept
the uninstall files.

----- End Original Message -----

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Carrie Garth, Microsoft MVP for Windows 2000
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: "Jason Custance" <jasonc AT agsoft DOT co DOT uk>
: Wrote in message : Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 07:57 AM
: Installed service pack 4 and after restarting comes up with a stop (cant
: read this as disappears to quickly and unable to pause)
:
: How do I find out what the message is saying?
:
: I have tried last know good configuration, running the repair option, safe
: mode etc and done of them work.
:
: Is they anyway to to remove sp4 from the command prompt if you told it to
: archive the files when originally installing the service pack.
:
: Any help or advice more help.
:
: Thanks