win2k --- Blue Screen of death

[Guest]

running 2k pro on lap top
Blue Screen of death on startup ....... tried using a copy of 2k pro to
possibly repair boot sectors. Darn thing went to setup and now im stuck in
setup. Tried F8/last known working config ..... nuttin

 

[Dave Patrick]

More than likely some hardware has failed.

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[Frank Booth Snr]

running 2k pro on lap top
Blue Screen of death on startup ....... tried using a copy of 2k pro to
possibly repair boot sectors. Darn thing went to setup and now im stuck in
setup. Tried F8/last known working config ..... nuttin

Stuck in setup??? Care to explain in more detail?

 

[Guest]

Hi ..... thanx for reponding. Yep stuck in setup (it seems) wasnt paying
complete attention as I was doing stuff on my pc as well. She went thru the
install / setup procedure up to serial. Problem is laptop is wifes work. She
is upper mngmnt and I wanted to atleast get it to boot thru to desk top.
Personally I think a virushas implanted itself ........ but before I cxan do
anything I need to get rid of the desire to run install/setup. Anyway to edit
boot dir from command prompt?

stop error is --- STOP : 0x00000051 (0x00000002, 0x00000001 0x00000000,
0x00000000)
REGISTRY_ERROR

 

[Dave Patrick]

Edit boot.ini located in the root of the system partition (usually C:\)

boot.ini will be something like;

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=30
Default=C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000" /fastdetect
C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT="Windows 2000 Setup"

Change it to;
[Boot Loader]
Timeout=30
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000" /fastdetect


(note the 'default=' line must also change. rdisk and partition values may
be different for your system.)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282501/en-us



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Regards,

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

 

[Frank Booth Snr]

Hi ..... thanx for reponding. Yep stuck in setup (it seems) wasnt paying
complete attention as I was doing stuff on my pc as well. She went thru the
install / setup procedure up to serial. Problem is laptop is wifes work. She
is upper mngmnt and I wanted to atleast get it to boot thru to desk top.
Personally I think a virushas implanted itself ........ but before I cxan do
anything I need to get rid of the desire to run install/setup. Anyway to edit
boot dir from command prompt?

stop error is --- STOP : 0x00000051 (0x00000002, 0x00000001 0x00000000,
0x00000000)
REGISTRY_ERROR

I don't think it's a virus. The BSOD error you describe is what you
normally see at boot-up where the registry has been corrupted. You
shouldn't see this on a reinstall. You say you are getting as far as
product key entry, so do you get the BSOD after you have entered this or
at what stage?

I wouldn't attempt a re-install yet. I would boot up from the system
disk, go to Repair, then C for Recovery Console. Once in go to folder
Winnt\System32\Config. You should see 4 files - Sam, Security, Software,
System. You will need to replace these with those from Folder
C:\Winnt\Repair. Use command: Copy C:\WINNT\Repair\sam then do this for
each of the other 3 files. When you have done this, exit Recovery
Console and try rebooting your PC as normal from your hard drive. See
what happens.