Well I've had this error about a dozen times, each requiring a reinstall... Got it again about 3 hours ago, and decided it's bout time I learned how to fix this crap... Anyway, stupid error was "C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system file missing or corrupt" or something similar... basically told me to put in my xp cd, reboot, boot from cd and hit 'r' at the first screen... But this seemed useless to me at first... Got to tinkering around and forgot about the original backups of all those files windows makes after the first successful boot (located in C:\WINDOWS\repair) .. Which was great, renamed my old system to system.old, and copied the backup system to the system32\config dir. Rebooted, and the machine actually booted... but ran into another problem. :( Thing kept telling me my license was invalid, which was weird. So, reactivating was fun to say the least ... I had to do an upgrade of sorts before I could reactivate, but finally... I'm here. Unfortunately, all that took out all my nice tweaks I had in the registry :(
I think my machine is trying to tell me something (this one the 2.53 has had the most problems with this type of error (3 in 2 months)... But only happens when I up my FSB from 185mhz to 190+ :/) 'tis weird like that. Oh well, good info to have.
I think my machine is trying to tell me something (this one the 2.53 has had the most problems with this type of error (3 in 2 months)... But only happens when I up my FSB from 185mhz to 190+ :/) 'tis weird like that. Oh well, good info to have.
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