XP Blue Screen

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I am attempting to recover an XP Pro computer that was accidently powered
down during boot (the plug was soose and cut power 2 or 3 times). Upon Boot,
the system blue screens and reboots. Attempting to go to Safe Mode the
system hangs at MUP.SYS. Upon attempting to boot from a CD for a recovery
install, the system blue screens with a Bad_Pool_Call (0xC2) but none of the
information addresses match the onees in Knowledgebase article 314492.

Is there a way to recover from this, or do I have to reinstall from scratch?
 
I checked the site this morning. It is very thorough, however, it still
doesn't list the exact solution. I am getting a location 0x43 in the option
1 position. This computer is a Compaq that was upgraded to XP Pro from
Win98ME. It has a Rage 128 video card. I am not sure if there is a driver
problem. Since I can not start XP, even in safe mode, I can not install
updated drivers. Attempting to do a repair of XP also blue screens. I am
quickly coming to the conclusion that I may have to start from scratch.
 
Hi

When you upgraded to XP did you also upgrade all device drivers to XP
compliant ones?

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Will Denny
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
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Hi Bob,

I was looking at the issue which you are facing and I am pretty sure it has
to do with registry corruption. Normally, when the machine comes back after a
power failure, it corrupts the registry. You can rename the registry hives by
booting in the recovery console if you have got a windows xp cd with you and
then rename the original registry hives and then copying the backup registry
hives on that location. You would be able to boot up to the desktop without
any problems but you wont get all the applications running properly. Then you
can open regedt32 and load those renamed corrupted hives and XP has a feature
where it corrects the corrupted hives automatically if there is a scope of
correction, otherwise it will give you that the hives have been badly damaged
and unable to recover. You can search on Microsoft Knowledge Base on how to
boot to recovery console and change the registry hives as it is quite a
process for the first timers.

Please feel free in case you need any further assistance on it.

Abhinav
 
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