I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried Safe mode
and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It appears to be
booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so quickly I cannot read
what it says. Is there any way to freeze the screen at that point? Does
anyone have any other suggestions?
Go into your bios and change the halt on error option to halt on all errors,
once you have the error documented, change it back.
"Bob Johnson" wrote:
> I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried Safe mode
> and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It appears to be
> booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so quickly I cannot read
> what it says. Is there any way to freeze the screen at that point? Does
> anyone have any other suggestions?
>
> Thank you.
Do you mean the Bios Setup Utility? If so where do I make the change? All I
can find is 'Wait for F1 if error', which is already enabled.
"sgopus" wrote:
> Go into your bios and change the halt on error option to halt on all errors,
> once you have the error documented, change it back.
>
> "Bob Johnson" wrote:
>
> > I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried Safe mode
> > and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It appears to be
> > booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so quickly I cannot read
> > what it says. Is there any way to freeze the screen at that point? Does
> > anyone have any other suggestions?
> >
> > Thank you.
"Bob Johnson" <BobJohnson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5A667030-58A6-455E-ADF3-705F84CCB72F@microsoft.com...
>I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried Safe
>mode
> and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It appears to be
> booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so quickly I cannot
> read
> what it says. Is there any way to freeze the screen at that point? Does
> anyone have any other suggestions?
>
> Thank you.
Hi Bob.
I don't know if sgopus's answer will be helpful or not since different
motherboards can have different BIOS setups.
The only thing I can think of is to try and press the Pause-Break button on
your keyboard right when the error pops up. Typically, it will pause the
startup proccess (BIOS POST) when you press this key. I'm hoping you'll be
able to do this quick enough in order to see your error. Other than that, I
can't think of anything. I don't know if the error you are seeing is
generated by windows or your BIOS.
Please post the complete Stop Error ( BSOD) Report.
Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by
allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on
the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,
Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before
Automatically Restart.
Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have
resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.
An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and select
option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.
--
Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bob Johnson wrote:
> I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried
> Safe mode and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It
> appears to be booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so
> quickly I cannot read what it says. Is there any way to freeze the
> screen at that point? Does anyone have any other suggestions?
>
> Thank you.
I ended up taking a digital picture of the screen. The error message is
Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
The registry cannot load the hive (file):
\SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software
or its log or alternate.
It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.
Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete.
I have tried Article ID 830084 and checkdisk did find and repair at least 1
error but that did not fix the problem. I have seen it suggested that I could
try Article ID 307545 but it warns not to use it if using an OEM operating
system. I am using an OEM O/S. Any other suggestions or is it probably a
damaged hard drive?
"Gerry" wrote:
> Bob
>
> Please post the complete Stop Error ( BSOD) Report.
>
> Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by
> allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on
> the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,
> Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before
> Automatically Restart.
>
> Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have
> resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.
>
> An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and select
> option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Bob Johnson wrote:
> > I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried
> > Safe mode and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It
> > appears to be booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so
> > quickly I cannot read what it says. Is there any way to freeze the
> > screen at that point? Does anyone have any other suggestions?
> >
> > Thank you.
>
>
>
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"Bob Johnson" <BobJohnson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:214036B6-96E6-47EB-A64D-E47DFB2E360A@microsoft.com...
>I ended up taking a digital picture of the screen. The error message is
> Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
> The registry cannot load the hive (file):
> \SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software
> or its log or alternate.
> It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.
>
> Beginning dump of physical memory
> Physical memory dump complete.
>
> I have tried Article ID 830084 and checkdisk did find and repair at least 1
> error but that did not fix the problem. I have seen it suggested that I could
> try Article ID 307545 but it warns not to use it if using an OEM operating
> system. I am using an OEM O/S. Any other suggestions or is it probably a
> damaged hard drive?
>
>
>
> "Gerry" wrote:
>
>> Bob
>>
>> Please post the complete Stop Error ( BSOD) Report.
>>
>> Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by
>> allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on
>> the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,
>> Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before
>> Automatically Restart.
>>
>> Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have
>> resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.
>>
>> An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and select
>> option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Bob Johnson wrote:
>> > I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried
>> > Safe mode and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It
>> > appears to be booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so
>> > quickly I cannot read what it says. Is there any way to freeze the
>> > screen at that point? Does anyone have any other suggestions?
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
This is the article that says do not try it if I am running an OEM installed
operating system, which I have.
"Peter Foldes" wrote:
> Another Registry Cleaning Tool showing it's teeth
>
> How to recover from a corrupt Registry if Windows does not start
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q307545
>
> --
> Peter
>
> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>
> "Bob Johnson" <BobJohnson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:214036B6-96E6-47EB-A64D-E47DFB2E360A@microsoft.com...
> >I ended up taking a digital picture of the screen. The error message is
> > Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
> > The registry cannot load the hive (file):
> > \SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software
> > or its log or alternate.
> > It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.
> >
> > Beginning dump of physical memory
> > Physical memory dump complete.
> >
> > I have tried Article ID 830084 and checkdisk did find and repair at least 1
> > error but that did not fix the problem. I have seen it suggested that I could
> > try Article ID 307545 but it warns not to use it if using an OEM operating
> > system. I am using an OEM O/S. Any other suggestions or is it probably a
> > damaged hard drive?
> >
> >
> >
> > "Gerry" wrote:
> >
> >> Bob
> >>
> >> Please post the complete Stop Error ( BSOD) Report.
> >>
> >> Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by
> >> allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on
> >> the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,
> >> Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before
> >> Automatically Restart.
> >>
> >> Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have
> >> resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.
> >>
> >> An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and select
> >> option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hope this helps.
> >>
> >> Gerry
> >> ~~~~
> >> FCA
> >> Stourport, England
> >> Enquire, plan and execute
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> >> Bob Johnson wrote:
> >> > I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried
> >> > Safe mode and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It
> >> > appears to be booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears so
> >> > quickly I cannot read what it says. Is there any way to freeze the
> >> > screen at that point? Does anyone have any other suggestions?
> >> >
> >> > Thank you.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
Do you have data files you need to recover? You need to resolve this
issue first. You may be able to recover the data by placing the hard
drive in another computer as a second (slave) drive and use the the
operating system from that computer to back up your data to removable
media. An alternative is to place the hard drive in an external cradle,
connect it to another computer and back up your data to removable media.
0xC0000218: UNKNOWN_HARD_ERROR
A necessary Registry hive file couldn't be loaded. The file may be
corrupt or missing (requiring either an Emergency Repair Disk or a
Windows reinstallation). The Registry files may have been corrupted
because of hard disk corruption or some other hardware problem. A driver
may have corrupted the Registry data while loading into memory, or the
memory where the Registry is loading may have a parity error (turn off
the external cache and check the physical RAM).
Source: http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm
What do you have by way of a Windows XP CD? I think you will have to do
a new install of Windows XP.
I cannot say if it has been caused by a damaged hard drive. When you
tried chkdsk did it complete the process?
--
Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bob Johnson wrote:
> I ended up taking a digital picture of the screen. The error message
> is
> Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
> The registry cannot load the hive (file):
> \SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software
> or its log or alternate.
> It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.
>
> Beginning dump of physical memory
> Physical memory dump complete.
>
> I have tried Article ID 830084 and checkdisk did find and repair at
> least 1 error but that did not fix the problem. I have seen it
> suggested that I could try Article ID 307545 but it warns not to use
> it if using an OEM operating system. I am using an OEM O/S. Any other
> suggestions or is it probably a damaged hard drive?
>
>
>
> "Gerry" wrote:
>
>> Bob
>>
>> Please post the complete Stop Error ( BSOD) Report.
>>
>> Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by
>> allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on
>> the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,
>> Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before
>> Automatically Restart.
>>
>> Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have
>> resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.
>>
>> An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and
>> select option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Bob Johnson wrote:
>>> I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried
>>> Safe mode and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It
>>> appears to be booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears
>>> so quickly I cannot read what it says. Is there any way to freeze
>>> the screen at that point? Does anyone have any other suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
I already have my data files backed up. I did a chkdsk and it did find at
least 1 error but that did not help the problem (I ran it twice).
Unfortunately, I do not have an Emergency Repair Disk, can I create one from
another computer?
If I do a new install without reformatting will the data files still be there?
Thank you.
"Gerry" wrote:
> Bob
>
> Do you have data files you need to recover? You need to resolve this
> issue first. You may be able to recover the data by placing the hard
> drive in another computer as a second (slave) drive and use the the
> operating system from that computer to back up your data to removable
> media. An alternative is to place the hard drive in an external cradle,
> connect it to another computer and back up your data to removable media.
>
> Background information on Stop Error message
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms797160.aspx
>
> 0xC0000218: UNKNOWN_HARD_ERROR
> A necessary Registry hive file couldn't be loaded. The file may be
> corrupt or missing (requiring either an Emergency Repair Disk or a
> Windows reinstallation). The Registry files may have been corrupted
> because of hard disk corruption or some other hardware problem. A driver
> may have corrupted the Registry data while loading into memory, or the
> memory where the Registry is loading may have a parity error (turn off
> the external cache and check the physical RAM).
> Source: http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm
>
> Do you have an Emergency Recovery Disk?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Repair_Disk
>
> What do you have by way of a Windows XP CD? I think you will have to do
> a new install of Windows XP.
>
> I cannot say if it has been caused by a damaged hard drive. When you
> tried chkdsk did it complete the process?
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Bob Johnson wrote:
> > I ended up taking a digital picture of the screen. The error message
> > is
> > Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
> > The registry cannot load the hive (file):
> > \SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software
> > or its log or alternate.
> > It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.
> >
> > Beginning dump of physical memory
> > Physical memory dump complete.
> >
> > I have tried Article ID 830084 and checkdisk did find and repair at
> > least 1 error but that did not fix the problem. I have seen it
> > suggested that I could try Article ID 307545 but it warns not to use
> > it if using an OEM operating system. I am using an OEM O/S. Any other
> > suggestions or is it probably a damaged hard drive?
> >
> >
> >
> > "Gerry" wrote:
> >
> >> Bob
> >>
> >> Please post the complete Stop Error ( BSOD) Report.
> >>
> >> Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by
> >> allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on
> >> the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,
> >> Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before
> >> Automatically Restart.
> >>
> >> Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have
> >> resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.
> >>
> >> An alternative is to keep pressing the F8 key during Start-Up and
> >> select option - Disable automatic restart on system failure.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hope this helps.
> >>
> >> Gerry
> >> ~~~~
> >> FCA
> >> Stourport, England
> >> Enquire, plan and execute
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> >> Bob Johnson wrote:
> >>> I changed a fan in my computer and now it will not boot up. I tried
> >>> Safe mode and Last known good configuration, but nothing works. It
> >>> appears to be booting then a blue screen appears but it disappears
> >>> so quickly I cannot read what it says. Is there any way to freeze
> >>> the screen at that point? Does anyone have any other suggestions?
> >>>
> >>> Thank you.
>
>
>
Windows XP Pro will not boot up 
Linear Mode
