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Awesome! I broke some Windows!

Started by Chris Swingler, 2002-11-11T10:34:25-06:00 (Monday)

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Chris Swingler

Whee.  Just reformatted, got Windows customized to the way I like it, lo and behold, it stops booting.

Whoopee.

Well, here's what it does.  Start it up, you see that nice little black WinXP bootup screen, then the NT kernel crash BSOD shows up, and it reboots before I get a chance to read it.  (For those of you who don't know, WinXP is set by default to automatically reboot whenever it hits an error like this.)  Last Known Configuration, All the Safe Modes, and Normal Startup do the same thing.

So what can I think of that I did to cause this?  I really don't know.  I put my computer into standby last night, realized I didn't want to do that, and woke it up right away and shut it down.  That appeared to work properly.  Before that, the only thing that happened that was out-of-the-ordinary was that Half-Life crashed.

Maybe this is a sign from the computer gods that I need to spend less time in Windows and more time in some open-source OSes.  Or maybe they're just telling me I need to play less games.  :-P

--Beanie
Christopher Swingler
CAOS Web Administrator

Chris Swingler

Hmm... It seems that Windows autorepair functions work sometimes...

Well, I'm back in Windoze, talking to myself in my own thread.

And the problem fixed itself.

--Beanie
Christopher Swingler
CAOS Web Administrator

bill corcoran

so it does work sometimes.  nevermind that it is ghastly inefficient.  i changed two registry keys that assign fixed disk drive letters, and it made the system unbootable.  rather than providing a way to revert to the last registry via "last kown good..." boot option or recovery console, i was basically left with "auto repair".  although it was able to correct the situation, it pretty much reinstalled windows, taking half an hour and undoing a few tweaks.  but hopefully, i won't be using windows much anymore.
-bill