compshredr
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I recently built a computer with some spare parts I had laying around, successfully installed windows and have been able to run it for a week or so without any serious problems, except for a corruption of a DLL file (because of Windows Update) which prevented windows from booting, but I was able to fix that.
I went to test some sticks of RAM in the machine to see which ones were bad (I disconnected the hard drive while doing this) and kept the largest sticks in. I proceeded to boot windows but got a blue STOP error for a split second before it cut off.
I think I have the original sticks in their respective slots, but when I try to boot the drive now, it doesn't show the XP 'home screen' it goes straight to the textbox style login, and when I do login it displays 'loading settings' then immediately 'logging off'. But, it does show my wallpaper, no icons... so, it just loops fairly quickly back to the login. I only have the 1 user besides the admin, and neither that user or the admin work.
I do have SP2 on it, and I have been overclocking the gfx card, but I don't think that's the problem.
And I do have another empty drive with the same version of XP with SP1 that I can use to fix anything, if it be a simple matter of changing files...
I would format but I spent all week putting everything I need on it (and of course, updating to SP2 and downloading 150 updates).
I went to test some sticks of RAM in the machine to see which ones were bad (I disconnected the hard drive while doing this) and kept the largest sticks in. I proceeded to boot windows but got a blue STOP error for a split second before it cut off.
I think I have the original sticks in their respective slots, but when I try to boot the drive now, it doesn't show the XP 'home screen' it goes straight to the textbox style login, and when I do login it displays 'loading settings' then immediately 'logging off'. But, it does show my wallpaper, no icons... so, it just loops fairly quickly back to the login. I only have the 1 user besides the admin, and neither that user or the admin work.
I do have SP2 on it, and I have been overclocking the gfx card, but I don't think that's the problem.
And I do have another empty drive with the same version of XP with SP1 that I can use to fix anything, if it be a simple matter of changing files...
I would format but I spent all week putting everything I need on it (and of course, updating to SP2 and downloading 150 updates).
