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I recently ran the operating system reinstallation Cd for Windows XP Home
Edition (which I should NOT have done as I had the system factory installed
and was happy with it ~ its a long stupid story and I swear my computer asked
me to insert the operating system service pack 2) ) After a bit, the
installation stoppped with a Bad_Pool_Caller ~ I got the scary blue screen ~
the installation never finalized ~ threw me out ~ and now i can't get my
computer to start with anything but yet another attempt to finish this
installation process ~ it is a frustrating groundhog day loop ~ ~ i have
F8'ed it to the advanced startup screen and nothing works there ~ i cant
enter under safe mode ~ it will not go back to a time when all was well ~ i
cant get into the start mode feature (no control panel or uninstall or remove
or system restore functions available) ~ i have F12'ed and F2'ed both to no
avail as far as I can tell (interesting but not helpful, at least to me) ~
so, I guess my questions are: how (if possible) do i stop my computer's
obession with installation (which will never end well, in fact, as evidenced,
will never end), do i have to go in and reset to the factory settings and
lose everything, or is there ANYTHING I can do to stop the madness and return
to my computer as I knew it before this stupid boy-do-i-wish-i
had-just-left-my-darn-computer-alone incident?
At some point I did get thefollowing errors:
0x000000C2 (invalid software interrupt), 0x00000CD4 (some kind of pg fault),
0x00340045 (i have no idea) and 0XE17A34C (again, no idea)
Also: if I get a physical memory dump complete message is the whole party
over and i simply have to accept it and reset to factory settings as
everything is gone anyway?
THANKS to anyone who got through reading all that is still conscious and
willing to answer!
Edition (which I should NOT have done as I had the system factory installed
and was happy with it ~ its a long stupid story and I swear my computer asked
me to insert the operating system service pack 2) ) After a bit, the
installation stoppped with a Bad_Pool_Caller ~ I got the scary blue screen ~
the installation never finalized ~ threw me out ~ and now i can't get my
computer to start with anything but yet another attempt to finish this
installation process ~ it is a frustrating groundhog day loop ~ ~ i have
F8'ed it to the advanced startup screen and nothing works there ~ i cant
enter under safe mode ~ it will not go back to a time when all was well ~ i
cant get into the start mode feature (no control panel or uninstall or remove
or system restore functions available) ~ i have F12'ed and F2'ed both to no
avail as far as I can tell (interesting but not helpful, at least to me) ~
so, I guess my questions are: how (if possible) do i stop my computer's
obession with installation (which will never end well, in fact, as evidenced,
will never end), do i have to go in and reset to the factory settings and
lose everything, or is there ANYTHING I can do to stop the madness and return
to my computer as I knew it before this stupid boy-do-i-wish-i
had-just-left-my-darn-computer-alone incident?
At some point I did get thefollowing errors:
0x000000C2 (invalid software interrupt), 0x00000CD4 (some kind of pg fault),
0x00340045 (i have no idea) and 0XE17A34C (again, no idea)
Also: if I get a physical memory dump complete message is the whole party
over and i simply have to accept it and reset to factory settings as
everything is gone anyway?
THANKS to anyone who got through reading all that is still conscious and
willing to answer!