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Help! Recurring registry problems not allowing Win2K system to boot!!

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Coolie

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3 times in the last 10 days, I turned my computer on in the morning and it would not boot due to registry problems. Twice the message was "Corrupt or missing hive file" and this morning it was "Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corupt: \winnt\system32\config\system." I have formatted and re-installed between these occurrences. Last night I finished installing all of my programs and re-booted several times and everything was good. This morning there was a corrupt file. What could be causing this????? 🙁 🙁 🙁
Windows 2000 SP-1
Abit BM6
Celeron 566@876
256MB
30GB Maxtor 7200 Ultra100 (C:=16GB, D:=7GB, E=7GB)
Promise Ultra 100
SMC 10/100 NIC
ATI All-in-Wonder 128
SB PCI128
 
I have also been experiencing the same problem with my computer/win2k advanced server...system registry hive "cannot" load...let the computer sit cold for a few days and it will start up fine once...I have reinstalled win2k SEVERAL times, but have had no luck...have updated bios, and have installed AMD's patch and MS's service pack...

900 MHz Thunderbird/Alpha cooler (voltage set up to 1.775 in order to get computer to be functional at all...but not overclocked)
KT7-RAID
256MB PC-133 RAM running at 100MHz
Kenwood 72x CDROM/HP 9200i burner w/ Adaptec scsi card
TNT2 32MB agp card
 
yes, that would be the SOFTWARE registry hive, not system...once I get this problem fixed, I learn how to type and think all at the same time...
 
I fought the same problem for a couple of weeks. I know exactly how frustrated you are. I never found a way to recover either with the so called "repair" on the CD or with the Emergency Recovery Console. I'm convinced it's either my mobo (Abit KT7 - non raid) or the Promise Ultra 66 controller I have. On Monday I did YACI (yet another clean install), this time with 2 Maxtors on the onboard IDE controllers on the Abit and my 2 CD's on the Promise. So far, so good but it will take a week or two with no corruption problems before I'm convinced I'm outta the woods.

One possible "smoking gun" on this....Promise's web site mentions this type of problem but has no mention of any fix. They blame the problem on "hard drive geometry". Hmm, they've never manufactured a hard drive, but they think they know more about them???


 
Well I'm trying to narrow down the problem. It is NOT that the CPU is overclocked because I formatted, reinstalled, and ran Win2K at default speed and the problem happened again. Yesterday I removed the Promise controller and so far, everything is OK. I guess time will tell.
 
yeah, been there done that

tried every single component, (in store, and i mean EVERY) came down to the power supply or the memory... we did both at the same time.
the store found me one that worked well (cheap chips they were, now i have nunya... err, nanya... chips on my stick)

also had a problem with the maxtor overclocking.. same comp.

loose the maxtor.
 
I have tried every component in the computer, including motherboards, processor, memory, and power supply...and I still get the problem. I am using the onboard IDE controllers, and still get the problem. argh...
 
ziebarthj and Coolie, here's something to chew on. According to the bios optimization guide at www.rojakpot.com, having IDE HDD Block Mode and 32 bit disk access enabled in the bios may lead to data corruptin in NT 4.0. I'm trying to get a definitive answer if it's also applicable to NTFS in Win2k but you might want to go ahead and look at those settings assuming your both running NTFS.

Let me know your results, let's get this crap fixed!!!
 
it's the maxtor
dirty writes

edit

what's your fsb? not 66 or 100 i bet. (i don't do math in my head)
it's the maxtor

edit

imho
 
My FSB is 100mhz on the button. If I had been running a odd bus speed I would have gotten that out of the equation first but it ain't a factor.
 
Just another thought,
Timing setting in Bios? RAS to CAS? It caused my system to drop suddenly and at one time indicated that it could not find the file your missing. I had to re-install 5 times. No more after changed the setting from 2 to 3.
 
I found something here on Microsoft's support website, but it doesn't seem to help any- they claim that they can't reproduce the problem... however, after I get this message, the OS core dumps then resets. After it resets a few times, it boots into Windows- weird, huh? I have an Abit BE6 with the onboard HPT366 controller, bios version 1.22, and version 1.25 of the Win2K drivers. When I boot off of my IDE channels (switch the drives back to the regular IDE channels) it works fine. One of my friends said it might have something to do with the boot.ini file? I haven't tried installing Win2K SP1 yet since I'm on dialup and that would take forever. I even tried reinstalling Win2K and using the F6 option to load my UDMA66 controller before setup,a nd that didn't work. Anybody have any suggestions? Oh yea, I'm running a Katmai 550 at default speed.

<edit> whoops wrong link </edit>
 
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