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Windows XP Blue Screen of Death STOP Codes


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I'm getting a code C0000218 {registry File Failure}
the registry cannot load the himve(file):
\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE
or its log or alternate.
It is corrup, absent, or not writable.

Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memroy dump complete.
Contact your sustem administrator or techinical support group for futher assistance.

I was attempting to update TrendMicro antivirus and was having difficulties downloading. It was taking forever, I stop and retried which took hours and then came back to find this message.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks!
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Is the computer bootable?
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Yes, it can boot to disk
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XP CD, you mean?
Does it boot to Windows, or is it stuck on the above error?
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it's stuck on the error message
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If you have Windows CD...(if you don't have Windows CD, scroll down)

1. Insert your Windows XP CD into your CD and assure that your CD-ROM drive is capable of booting the CD.
2. Once you have booted from CD, do NOT select the option that states: Press F2 to initiate the Automated System Recovery (ASR) tool.
You’re going to proceed until you see the following screen, at which point you will press the “R” key to enter the recovery console:

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3. After you have selected the appropriate option from step two, you will be prompted to select a valid Windows installation (typically number 1).
Select the installation number, and hit Enter.
If there is an administrator password for the administrator account, enter it and hit Enter (if asked for the password, and you don't know it, you're out of luck).
You will be greeted with this screen, which indicates a recovery console at the ready:

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4. There are eight commands you must enter in sequence to repair your problem..
NOTE. Make sure, you press Enter after each command. Make sure, all commands are exact, including "spaces".
These commands are as follows:

CD..
ATTRIB -H C:\boot.ini
ATTRIB -S C:\boot.ini
ATTRIB -R C:\boot.ini
del boot.ini
BOOTCFG /Rebuild


Note about the above command.
BOOTCFG /REBUILD command which searches for pre-existing installations of Windows XP and rebuilds sundry essential components of the Windows operating system, recompiles the BOOT.INI file and corrects a litany of common Windows errors.
It is very important that you do one or both of the following two things:
A.) Every Windows XP owner must use /FASTDETECT as OS Load Option when the rebuild process is finalizing.
B.) If you are the owner of a CPU featuring Intel’s XD or AMD’s NX buffer overflow protection, you must also use /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN as an OS Load Option.
For the Enter Load Identifier portion of this command, you should enter the name of the operating system you have installed.
If, for example, you are using Windows XP Home, you could type Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition for the identifier (it's not crucial, however what the name is, as long, as it's meaningful).
Here is your computer screen:

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5. Following command verifies the integrity of the hard drive containing the Windows XP installation. While this step is not an essential function in our process, it’s still good to be sure that the drive is physically capable of running windows, in that it contains no bad sectors or other corruptions that might be the culprit:

CHKDSK /R

6. This last command writes a new boot sector to the hard drive and cleans up all the loose ends we created by rebuilding the BOOT.INI file and the system files. When the Windows Recovery Console asks you if you are Sure you want to write a new bootsector to the partition C: ? just hit “Y”, then Enter to confirm your decision:

FIXBOOT

7. It’s time to reboot your PC by typing
EXIT
and pressing Enter.

With any luck, your PC will boot successfully into Windows XP as if your various DLL, Hive, EXE and NTLDR errors never existed.



If you don't have Windows CD...
Download Windows Recovery Console: http://www.thecomput...om/files/rc.iso
Download, and install free Imgburn: http://www.imgburn.c...hp?act=download
Using Imgburn, burn rc.iso to a CD.
Boot to the CD...let it finish loading.
When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.
Then, follow instructions from Step #3 above.
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Recovery was not working so I decided to reinstall the OS. Now, I'm getting a few application errors that hopefully you might be able to help me with.

rundll32.exe unable to lacat component

This application has failed to start because framedyn.dll was not found.
Re-install the applications may fix this problem.
RunDLL error loading
srclient.dll
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Was it clean install, or over the top?
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It was over the top.
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Go Start>Run ("Start Search" in Vista), type in:
sfc /scannow
Click OK (hold CTRL, and SHIFT, hit Enter in Vista).
Have Windows CD/DVD handy (with Vista, most likely, you won't need it).
If System File Checker (sfc) will find any errors, it may ask you for the CD/DVD (rarely in Vista case).
If sfc won't find any errors in Windows XP, it'll simply quit, without any message.
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I would love to give that a try but when I go to login as admin I'm now getting this error:

TOP: c000021a {fatal system error}
the window logon process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of
0xc00000006 (oxoooooooo oxoooooooo).
The system has been shut down.
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I'd probably back up your data and go for clean install.
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Ok, how would I go about doing a clean install on a Del optiplex Gx620 with a XP OS?
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http://www.michaelst...nxpinstall.html
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