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re: XP Flashes a blue screen and reboots...grr
Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at 6:42 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by xpadvisor
(847 messages posted)
As you cannot get into a desktop. I am guessing that safe mode is also not an option.
Boot to the WinXP Cd and start a clean install to a new directory. WINDOWS is 'old'
WinXP and maybe WINXP for the 'new'. You can then save any data and test whether
a clean install will be any better (only hardware between you and success). You did
not say whether you haddone an upgrade. They tend to be flakier and less stable than
a clean install.
Good luck.
On Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at 6:11 pm, Sean wrote:
>Alright I can tell this is going to be fun...posting in this forum is my last resort.
>Before I start, let me say my problem is DIFFERENT from all the others I’ve seen
>because I cannot boot into windows at all to turn off the 'Automatically restart
>on BSOD' option.
>First off let me start by saying, my (other) computer decided it wanted to delete
>the Windows\System32\Drivers folder for no reason...how convenient!
>Right after the XP loading screen goes off, a blue screen flashes and it restarts.
>So I stuck in my XP CD and did the good old' in-place upgrade. It goes through the
>upgrade perfectly fine (so it replaced the system32\drivers directory so that's
no
>longer an issue) until it tries to initialize the installation. It says: "Setup
cannot
>set the required Windows XP configuration information. This indicates an internal
>setup error. Contact system administrator." I've tried doing this many times and
>it says it each time. I would contact my system administrator but...I am the administrator
>so that would be pointless. Now if any of you would have an idea of what I could
>do, it would be greatly appreciated. Oh yeah, the last thing I want to do is format.
>The computer is a Compaq 933MHz 256MB SDRAM 60Gig HDD.....One thing that may be
of
>significance would be that I Installed a service pack and some patches that fixed
>certain problems I had that were not pertaining to this...I installed SP1 and everything
>ran fine for a whole day before this happened. Help. :)
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