Ok, this has been annoying the crap out of me for a while now.
here's what happens. i loaded windows xp a while ago, and recently i'll just reboot my computer and it will give me this blue screen, right about the point where it's supposed to get into windows after the black windows xp screen, and the blue screen says something about not being able to load a registry file located in /systemroot/system32/config/SOFTWARE.
it says that the file and it's log and alternate are missing, corrupt, or not writable.
this totally sounds like a virus to me, but i cound not find anything when looking with mcaffee, or protector plus 2000.
so i figured windows xp was screwey, so i just installed windows 2000 again, with the service pack, and when it rebooted after installing the service pack, IT GAVE ME THE SAME ERROR MESSAGE!!!!!!!!!
luckily it actually booted into windows after i rebooted the system. before, (with windows xp), it would just keep going to that screen every time i rebooted. it wouldnt even go into safe mode.
this morning after i installed windows 2k, i got on the internet to post this original message, but about a half an hour after that, my internet connection was just not working at all. all the lights on my modem were normal, and everything seemed allright. i hadnt made any changes to any of my software, hardware, drivers etc, so i couldnt pinpoint it on anything that I had done. i've got DSL by the way. it's one of those setups where i just plug in the modem, plug it into my NIC and i'm up and running. no software or anything. so it seems that it should be pretty rock solid. after i was unable to connect, i tried rebooting my computer a couple of times, i tried reinstalling drivers for my nic, checking network protocols, and whatnot, but everything seemed normal. then about twenty minutes later everything just came up working dandy again. i havent called my ISP, (verizon), yet, cause i want to see if it's something with my computer or if it's related to the crap that's going on that i mentioned above.
I decided to do a clean install of windows 2k to see if that might fix any of these problems. but even right before i did the install, the system just kept locking randomly. it didnt really matter what i was doing exactly, it would just lock up a few minutes after booting the system. so anyway i reinstall windows 2k and IT'S STILL LOCKING UP! i cant seem to get anywhere with it. i treid to get to this website to post this problem, but it just locked up.
i'm starting to think this is some sort of hardware problem now. but i cant really pin it on anything. everything in my system is pretty new. i got the mobo and processor about 4 months ago, i got the video card about a month ago. and i think that i've got pretty quality parts. and this all just kind of crashed on me all at once which is what is really mind boggling too. so what do you think i should do? i'm setting all my settings in my bios back to the defaults, (they have worked fine for a long time now however), and i'm doing another install of windows. if anyone has anything that they think could help, please let me know. i'm beyond annoyed at this point: i'm a beaten man.
-Booshanky
here's what happens. i loaded windows xp a while ago, and recently i'll just reboot my computer and it will give me this blue screen, right about the point where it's supposed to get into windows after the black windows xp screen, and the blue screen says something about not being able to load a registry file located in /systemroot/system32/config/SOFTWARE.
it says that the file and it's log and alternate are missing, corrupt, or not writable.
this totally sounds like a virus to me, but i cound not find anything when looking with mcaffee, or protector plus 2000.
so i figured windows xp was screwey, so i just installed windows 2000 again, with the service pack, and when it rebooted after installing the service pack, IT GAVE ME THE SAME ERROR MESSAGE!!!!!!!!!
luckily it actually booted into windows after i rebooted the system. before, (with windows xp), it would just keep going to that screen every time i rebooted. it wouldnt even go into safe mode.
this morning after i installed windows 2k, i got on the internet to post this original message, but about a half an hour after that, my internet connection was just not working at all. all the lights on my modem were normal, and everything seemed allright. i hadnt made any changes to any of my software, hardware, drivers etc, so i couldnt pinpoint it on anything that I had done. i've got DSL by the way. it's one of those setups where i just plug in the modem, plug it into my NIC and i'm up and running. no software or anything. so it seems that it should be pretty rock solid. after i was unable to connect, i tried rebooting my computer a couple of times, i tried reinstalling drivers for my nic, checking network protocols, and whatnot, but everything seemed normal. then about twenty minutes later everything just came up working dandy again. i havent called my ISP, (verizon), yet, cause i want to see if it's something with my computer or if it's related to the crap that's going on that i mentioned above.
I decided to do a clean install of windows 2k to see if that might fix any of these problems. but even right before i did the install, the system just kept locking randomly. it didnt really matter what i was doing exactly, it would just lock up a few minutes after booting the system. so anyway i reinstall windows 2k and IT'S STILL LOCKING UP! i cant seem to get anywhere with it. i treid to get to this website to post this problem, but it just locked up.
i'm starting to think this is some sort of hardware problem now. but i cant really pin it on anything. everything in my system is pretty new. i got the mobo and processor about 4 months ago, i got the video card about a month ago. and i think that i've got pretty quality parts. and this all just kind of crashed on me all at once which is what is really mind boggling too. so what do you think i should do? i'm setting all my settings in my bios back to the defaults, (they have worked fine for a long time now however), and i'm doing another install of windows. if anyone has anything that they think could help, please let me know. i'm beyond annoyed at this point: i'm a beaten man.
-Booshanky
