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Win2K Crash-out on Boot

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by Frobozz, 2002/02/23.

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  1. 2002/02/23
    Frobozz

    Frobozz Inactive Thread Starter

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    I recently had a motherboard die on me. I replaced it, but with a different model board (previous one used an Ali chipset, current one uses a VIA)

    When I try to boot, I get a blue screen, white text, system crash.

    I get this when I try to go into Safe Mode as well.

    When activating Safe Mode, as the list of files being loaded scrolls by, I notice it dying when it tries to load the ALI AGP driver from WINNT/System32/Drivers (like duh... an ALI driver on VIA hardware... of course it's crashing).

    I would like to remove this file... Or at least bypass it so I can remove it and get my system running with the new board, or at least running enough to transfer files off the drive.

    I simply CAN'T get into windows, either normally nor in Safe Mode. It's a real catch-22. I need to get to Win2K to delete the file, and I need to delete the file to get Win2K...

    Any ideas?

    By the way, I'm also running NTFS.
     
    Last edited: 2002/02/23
  2. 2002/02/25
    gffd

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    The first thing you should do is go into the recovery console. either through the 4 startup disks, or through the windows 2k cd (just let the computer boot from it). When it asks you what you want to do; install windows, repair exsiting windows, etc. Pick repair. Go into recovery console and then disble the service (the driver for the ALI chipset). This is all from memory so make sure you type help, or disbable /? for the correct syntax. After done this reboot. If it doesn't work, you can try to do a automatic repair, yet one has never worked for me yet :)
     
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