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Name: chelseabing
Date: May 31, 2003 at 03:58:15 Pacific
OS: windows xp
CPU/Ram: pentium 3
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i returned from holidays turned on my pc and got the message windows was unable to start properly please pick a program in which to start there was safe mode safe with command and so on no matter which one i click it starts to load and then this blue screen appears sayingb there is a hive file missing(system root/system32/security) it then starts dumping physical memory and restarts and exactley the same things happen again i have tried booting from xp disk but nothing happens please help i'm at a total loss



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Name: kkkk
Date: May 31, 2003 at 05:15:26 Pacific
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if you can get into safe mode, remove the video driver, reboot, windows should load and reinstall the video, if you get to windows, do a system restore,


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Name: stootze29
Date: May 31, 2003 at 23:45:49 Pacific
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Here's a step by step on how to fix your exact problem:

http://miscmail.home.mchsi.com/xpfix/xp.htm


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