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Mike Watson
Hi,
I'm having a very hard time getting Windows 2000
Professional installed on my new system (AMD64 3200+ on a
MSI K8T Neo). In 5 days I've had 3 rebuilds from scratch.
The problem seems to be when selecting Shutdown, the
computer starts to shut down and the dialog "Saving your
peronsal settings..." pops up, and then the computer seems
to turn itself off in the middle of this process. Then,
when you go to restart the machine, files are corrupted.
The first time it happened, only the user profile was
corrupted and at login it hung at the "Loading your
personal settings" dialog. The next time I had problems
with it, I shutdown, and 10 minutes later tried to
restart, and Windows wouldn't boot, saying WINNT\SYSTEM32
\CONFIG\SYSTEM is missing or corrupt. I went to the
recovery console (it never asked for my admin password???)
and the file is there, so it must be corrupt. I suspect my
computer is turning itself off too quickly when you select
Shutdown. If you select Restart, it's fine. During
install, I must have to restart 10-15 times for driver and
patch updates, and it's always fine. I have so far only
ever been able to Shut down the computer once and re start
it cold. Any ideas? Is this hardware? Windows 2000
setting? Virus? I'm not sure where to start!
Thanks for any advice,
Mike
I'm having a very hard time getting Windows 2000
Professional installed on my new system (AMD64 3200+ on a
MSI K8T Neo). In 5 days I've had 3 rebuilds from scratch.
The problem seems to be when selecting Shutdown, the
computer starts to shut down and the dialog "Saving your
peronsal settings..." pops up, and then the computer seems
to turn itself off in the middle of this process. Then,
when you go to restart the machine, files are corrupted.
The first time it happened, only the user profile was
corrupted and at login it hung at the "Loading your
personal settings" dialog. The next time I had problems
with it, I shutdown, and 10 minutes later tried to
restart, and Windows wouldn't boot, saying WINNT\SYSTEM32
\CONFIG\SYSTEM is missing or corrupt. I went to the
recovery console (it never asked for my admin password???)
and the file is there, so it must be corrupt. I suspect my
computer is turning itself off too quickly when you select
Shutdown. If you select Restart, it's fine. During
install, I must have to restart 10-15 times for driver and
patch updates, and it's always fine. I have so far only
ever been able to Shut down the computer once and re start
it cold. Any ideas? Is this hardware? Windows 2000
setting? Virus? I'm not sure where to start!
Thanks for any advice,
Mike