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I have a eMachines M2350 laptop. I had to install a new HDD and used the recovery CD that came with laptop. It installed Windows XP SP1. When I upgraded to windows XP SP2, the laptop keeps crashing and rebooting. Searching through the internet I discovery that it was a registry entry. The laptop came with a BigFix program that corrected the problem. But, Bigfix is no longer available. I've performed a recovery again, which put me back to SP1. Are there any suggestions to how to resolve the problem
... this is a very small "iso" image (1.04MB) to make a bootable cd with ... boot-up with it and it will give you the option "which" partition to make active
... you press 1, 2, or 3 remove the cd [press ENTER]... you may have a problem downloading with "firefox"
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"...pentathol makes you sing like a canary"
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/...
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OK, I booted to the CD chose the drive to boot to. I removed the CD and rebooted laptop and it still continues to BSOD i. e. Blue Screen of Death. The only difference is that I get the screen where you chose whether to run normal or various safe modes.
Thanks anyway. But, if you have any other suggestion, I'm open for suggestions.
Thanks again
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... did you click the purple "What Bigfix does" and follow the instructions first?
.... @Response Number 1
Grrrr
"...pentathol makes you sing like a canary"
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/...
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Hello again,
The WHAT BIGFIX DOES instructions talks about deleting registry entry (and its subkeys):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\SYSPREP_TEMPORARY.
I believe this is done before before upgrading to SP2. Because of the crashing after SP2 is installed.
But first, I have to make some ACL adjustments, so that it can delete the registry entry.
How do I make a ACL, Access Control List, which would allow me to delete the entry and all the subs?
Or, do I have to go though the process of putting the drive in a W2K pc (which I don't have) and use a binary editor to rename the entry.
I know I sound like a lost soul. But, I'm trying. As long as I have the restore CDs, I can alway start over until I get it right.
Thanks again for your assistance.
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... download this fine tool"Regscanner" ... you'll have to mess with it...
... it can import/export, create reg files etc ... all you need
... once used always used!
Grrrr
"...pentathol makes you sing like a canary"
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/...
... got brain freeze
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Tried it; Same results: installed SP3, reboot, blue screen crash (BSOD), reboot, blue screen crash etc........
Thanks for the suggestion, anyway!
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This isn't worth the hassle. So, I did it my way.
I skipped the recovery CDs by installing windows XP with a different Microsoft XP cd. Upgraded to SP2 and SP3 without a problem. I got the needed drivers for the laptop from the emachine driver CD and some updates from emachine web site. I just have to activate XP with the COA on the bottom of the laptop. Plus, I didn't have to uninstall all the junk software that would had been preinstalled with the recovery cds.
Obviously the problem is in the darn emachine recovery CD set.
Problem solved!!
DONE!!!!!
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... is this it!
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/...
Grrrr
"...pentathol makes you sing like a canary"
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/...
... got brain freeze
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