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SteveW
21st August 2003, 06:01 AM
Anyone have any experience with this in Windows 2000? Its sort of like the blue screen of death but the computer wont restart in safe or any other mode.

Any clues would be appreciated.
a_unique_person
21st August 2003, 07:19 AM
You can always do a re-install quite safely.
Rat
21st August 2003, 04:25 PM
Was this after an SP3 update?
The Central Scrutinizer
21st August 2003, 08:43 PM
Originally posted by SteveW
Anyone have any experience with this in Windows 2000? Its sort of like the blue screen of death but the computer wont restart in safe or any other mode.

Any clues would be appreciated.

Switch to session 6? ;)
max
31st August 2003, 05:46 AM
I frequently had this problem with AOL although my system is windows ME. I changed to a cable company a few months back and I have not had the dreaded blue screen since
ShowMe
31st August 2003, 11:26 AM
Originally posted by SteveW
Anyone have any experience with this in Windows 2000? Its sort of like the blue screen of death but the computer wont restart in safe or any other mode.

Any clues would be appreciated.

That is a kernel/hal mismatch STOP.

If you recently applied a patch that upgraded ntoskrnl or ntdll.dll.:
boot into recovery console
browse to the $NtUninstall directory for the fix
rename the offending file
copy the file from its uninstall directory to \winnt\system32
try to boot the machine.