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Endless loop of starting
It all started with my password. Somehow or another it
changed. I fixed that in Safe Mode by logging into the administrator account. The funny thing was that in Safe Mode, the mouse didn't work. But I didn't care to much to investigate it. Then, I made some changes somewhere. Then next time I booted up, right before the Windows splash screen the computer reset and went into a loop of resetting and almost starting up and resetting. Sometime in the mess of things, A BSOD appeared with the following message: STOP: 0x00000050 (0xF80A6000, 0X00000000, 0X8081C03B, 0X00000000) PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON-PAGED_AREA. In the Knowledge Base, they say quote, "This problem may occur if there is a conflict between Windows XP SP1 and the display adapter drivers that are currently installed." I haven't had the conflict yet, but it may have been due to the fact that when I was working on fixing my password, I tried a restore point I made a while back and after that, I needed to reinstall the graphics driver and display driver. When I try Safe Mode, I get the same affect. I can get into the boot menu but after that is when the computer resets. Things I've tried: repairing the installation safe mode (same problem as with normal) recovery console on disk (don't know how to use or what to do) My big question is what to do. Luckily most of my important files are on my second partition. I wouldn't mind having to reinstall Windows, but I don't want to lose files and settings. I don't have any backups of the files on the C: drive either. Any suggestions? |
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Endless loop of starting
Sounds like a reinstall is a good idea.
You already have more than one partition, so I really would advise you to backup important files from C: to that. Don't forget to backup your e-mail, if you want to keep that. One word of caution: a reinstall will only work if, at the point of selecting an install partition during setup, you delete the current C:-partition and then install into that empty space. If you keep the partition results will be unpredictable. Andre. "Steve" wrote in message ... It all started with my password. Somehow or another it changed. I fixed that in Safe Mode by logging into the administrator account. The funny thing was that in Safe Mode, the mouse didn't work. But I didn't care to much to investigate it. Then, I made some changes somewhere. Then next time I booted up, right before the Windows splash screen the computer reset and went into a loop of resetting and almost starting up and resetting. Sometime in the mess of things, A BSOD appeared with the following message: STOP: 0x00000050 (0xF80A6000, 0X00000000, 0X8081C03B, 0X00000000) PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON-PAGED_AREA. In the Knowledge Base, they say quote, "This problem may occur if there is a conflict between Windows XP SP1 and the display adapter drivers that are currently installed." I haven't had the conflict yet, but it may have been due to the fact that when I was working on fixing my password, I tried a restore point I made a while back and after that, I needed to reinstall the graphics driver and display driver. When I try Safe Mode, I get the same affect. I can get into the boot menu but after that is when the computer resets. Things I've tried: repairing the installation safe mode (same problem as with normal) recovery console on disk (don't know how to use or what to do) My big question is what to do. Luckily most of my important files are on my second partition. I wouldn't mind having to reinstall Windows, but I don't want to lose files and settings. I don't have any backups of the files on the C: drive either. Any suggestions? |
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