NT Continuous reboot – communication

2. Paul Dau
Jul 9 2000, 2:00 am show options
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc
From: “Paul Dau” – Find messages by this author
Date: 2000/07/09
Subject: Re: Continuous reboot…HELP!
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When you ran the Last Known Good, did you actually press the spacebar, then
press L, then Enter. If you haven’t done so, try it.
After you run the LKG, and it still reboots, install a parallel of NT, that
is, install a new version of NT in a different folder than the default
|WINNT, call it whatever name, I usually call it \JUNK, to make it stand
out.
When the \JUNK is finished, boot into it (by default, NT will add 2 more
lines to your boot loader, and the \JUNK install will be your 1st line)
Boot into the parallel, go into NT Explorer, click on View, Options, and
select to Show all Files and uncheck the 1st 2 boxes (the reason for doing
this, because NT by default, will hide all known types of files)
Load the system hive from the parallel, that is, run regedt32
– Select HK Local Machine (make sure it’s highlighted)
– Click on Registry, Load Hive
– Select C:\Winnt\System32\Config
– Choose the system file with no extension with the MS flag
– When it prompts you for a key name, call it ZZZ then OK
– You’re now back into Registry Editor, and you should see one key called
“ZZZ” at the bottom.
– Double click on ZZZ, look for the Select key and single click it.
– Look on the right panel, and look at the Current key, it should say
something like REG_DWORD: 0x#
– Whatever the # is, click on the left panel where it says Controlset00x
– Select Control, CrashControl
– Look on the right panel, on the 1st line where it says AutoReboot, double
click on that line, it will open up a new Window with the “1” highlighted,
change that value to 0 (1 is autoreboot, 0 will deactivate the autoreboot
feature) then click OK.
– Collapse ZZZ (that is to say make sure nothing is shown underneath this
key)
– Highlight ZZZ, then click on Registry, Unload Hive, then you will get a
scary message, click OK. Then close Registry Editor.
– Reboot, and this time select your original (it should be your 3rd line)
– This time, it should stop at the blue screen with the stop code [The
parallel install and all the steps just make it stop at the blue screen].(It
will have something like Stop 0x0000001e or something like that). Make sure
you write down everything in the parenthesis.

I can’t really say what caused your OS to crash yet, but these steps will
save you a lot of time, unless you decide to reinstall NT and all your
applications. (If you don’t have a lot of meaningful data, this could be the
best choice)
I realize I didn’t help you fix the problem, but at least I think I help you
stop the continual booting issue. Find out what they are.
Regards,
NT Slave