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NathanF
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Yesterday I tried turning on my computer, and I got a STOP error. It only shows up for about 1/3 of a second, this is all I grasped of it:
STOP: c180...
The registry...
\system...
or it's log...
It is corrupt, and...
Beggining the...
The dump of col...
Contact your sy. (this is where it freezes)

As I said, I could only grasp a few words because it literally just flashes on the screen then turns off.
Every time I turn it on, I get this message, and the computer resets.
Anyway, could someone, pleaase help me. The compo ends in 1+1/2 weeks, and if this continues, I feel I wont get anything in at all...3 months of my life wasted.....
So...Any recomendations??

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Ian T
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Posted: 20th Oct 2004 09:06 Edited at: 20th Oct 2004 09:07
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Sounds like there's a boot problem with Windows from the portions of the error I see. If your computer can boot from the CD drive, put your Windows CD in.


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NathanF
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Thanks for the fast reply
I tried that already, nothing happened. Is there some kind of hotkey to boot from a cd?
Btw, Im at school right now, and I have 25mins to get all the info I can, as this is the only time I can use the computer.

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bitJericho
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can you boot in safe mode? f8 right before the windows logo would show up.. (just keep pressing it right when the bios boot screen would disappear..

if that fails..

try a boot disk and run scanreg


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Ian T
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Well if the CD doesn't work, try a boot floppy. If there's a floppy in, it shouldn't even be accessing the hard drive. If that doesn't work, chances are there's something wrong with your motherboard .


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TKF15H
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your motherboard is probably not configured to check the CD drive. Go into it's config (press DEL while booting) then see if you can change the order it looks for devices to boot from.

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bitJericho
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i doubt it's the mobo.. prolly a bad cluster Run scandisk and scanreg


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Osiris
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why dont you do what it says

Contact your system administrator IE: Microsoft tech support, beleve it or not they acctually know what they are doing ( most of the time ) ps it sounds like your regestry has a problem did you change anything on ur comp like ur login screen or the windows shell perhaps?

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NathanF
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Back at school now. I booted from the XP cd. I ran chkdsk /r like 4 times (takes like 30mins each time), and nothing helped. Yer and safe mode simply freezes.
Quote: "Run scandisk and scanreg"

Quote: "try a boot disk and run scanreg"

How? I can't run programs (or at least I dont know how to).

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Andy Igoe
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If you aren't familiar with in-depth repairs it might be simpler to reinstall Windows. Provided you do not format your hard disk your compo game will still be there.

You'll need to reinstall your apps which might take a few days in all (or just reinstall as you need each app), but at least you'll get up and running again quicker than 25 minutes a day to take notes from us guys and then coming back next day...


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I've seen similar problems to this. The problem turned out to be a bad stick of RAM. You should probably do a full RAM check next system boot.


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Doesn't the Microsoft Tech support cost 3 dollars a minute?

Proper formatting technique:

Put your Windows XP disk in, tell your comp to boot from the CD. Start a new Windows setup. Delete all partitions you have. Make a new one. Start the Windows XP setup and it will ask to format your drive. You can choose for NTFS or NTFS (quick format). I have no idea what the difference between them is, so just click NTFS. Usually, the "quick" stuff doesn't work quite as well. Formatting will take about an hour, depending on the size and speed of your hard drive. For me, it took 45 minutes (80 gb, ATA/100). Now just reinstall windows.
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Teh Go0rfmeister
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noooooooooooo

ntfs will loose everything!!!

quick ntfs just formats the table data and leaves the files intact.

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[/quote]
Quote: "Doesn't the Microsoft Tech support cost 3 dollars a minute?"


you wish it did

J/K

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????

Why would you want to leave that stuff? There could be viruses!
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I used to have this problem..it was caused by windows shutting down before it had finished writing the registry to disk (my pc was too fast )

You will have a copy of the registry backed up, as windows does it for you

I used to know what to do, but this was 1 to 1 1/2 years ago, I'm pretty sure that there is a knowledge base article on it. It basically involves making a boot disk that overwrites your corrupt registry with a recent backup. It may even have involved the windows setup repair prompt thingy!


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NathanF
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Thanks for all you replies people

Got a bit more on the message:
STOP: c1800000218 {registry...
The registry...
\systemroot\system...
or it's log...
It is corrupt, and...or not...
Beginning the...
The dump of col...
Contact your sy...stem administrator (most probably)

I found that the DOS on Winxp Pro, doesnt have a command to open programs, so I used my 98 one (and that worked). Lol, I got so bored with trying, I ended up playing around with QBasic.

@Andy Igoe:
That seems like the easy solution. Wouldn't it only replace C:/WINDOWS? So the programs would still be there right?
Even if they wouldn't, as long as I stil have my work, I'll do it.

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NathanF
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Ooh, I googled it, and I think I found just the solution, this sounds exactly like my error:
http://www.techgroup21.com/subpage.asp?subnavID=121

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NathanF
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It'eh works!
Took me bout an hour, but everythings back to normal now. Thanks again for the help guys
Now back to work for me...

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