NT4 gurus, please look inside

[skyking]

I am upgrading a laser scanner system, and removed the proprietary DCB card from it to move to the new system.
I tried to start the old NT system without that card, and it blue screened at startup, showing only the processor and memory information. The keyboard is not responsive.
I tried booting into normal and VGA modes, and the last known configuration.
I have re-installed the ISA card, but may not have the memory reservation set to the exact same settings.
I don't have an NT disk or recovery disk here.

 

[fartbag]

Use a windows 2000 cd to boot into recovery console and remove the driver. Recovery console will work with NT! XP recovery console would likely work too.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: fartbag
Use a windows 2000 cd to boot into recovery console and remove the driver. Recovery console will work with NT! XP recovery console would likely work too.

and 2003 🙂

 

[MadRat]

Take the easy way out. Or boot to an ERD Commander disk from Winternals (http://www.winternals.com/Products/ERDCommander/). ERD Commander can be used for a lot of different tasks, but in a situation like this you can use it to reconfigure or disable a device driver from outside of the operating system. Windows doesn?t even have to be functioning because ERD Commander boots from its own self contained mini operating system.

 

[skyking]

Thank you for the ideas. I will give all that a try.

 

[Cdeck]

or simply place the isa card back in, boot up, disable the driver, shutdown and pull the card.

 

[skyking]

been there, tried that. the ISA card may be malfunctioning in some way, because I get the blue screen card in or out. thank you for the suggestion though.

 

[Cdeck]

www.bootdisk.com will have bootup disk images. at least you can use the console to kill the driver.