[dba-Tech] hardware issue?

John W. Colby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed May 19 07:21:43 CDT 2004


I don't think a reinstall will not make changes.  It sets up default values
to the registry and stuff.  Whether you would lose all your programs is
another story but I suspect you would.  I believe it creates a brand new
registry which would trash all installed programs.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 7:37 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] hardware issue?


I've got another pc that's the same make and model, so I took the drive out,
slaved it in this other one and ran scandisk, disk cleanup and defrag. The
pc now starts by itself, which is a lot better than it did last time, so I'm
going to copy ths dll from one pc to the other, and see if it works.
Although I keep getting "Explorer.exe has created errors and will be shut
down" every 30 seconds. Thanks for the help so far though :-)

I've even tried running windows repair install again, but that hasn't worked
either. Can you do a 95/98 and reinstall over the top without losing any
settings etc?


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com]
Sent: 19 May 2004 12:32
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] hardware issue?


Well, it sounds like you are hosed.  I googled ks.dll and it is a file that
can be downloaded from Microsoft's web site.  If you downloaded it and
placed it (manually) in the System32 directory then you may get further.
However this file is used for debugging driver problems and may be being
called from some driver having issues so getting the file in place might not
solve the issue.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 4:13 AM
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yeah, that was the first thing I did - no luck :-(


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com]
Sent: 18 May 2004 21:48
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Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] hardware issue?


Have you tried windows repair install?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 7:48 AM
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I can see it in the BIOS, there are no beep codes. It all starts booting
into windows, does the black startup screen, then the white one with the
windows logo on it, then bombs out into a blue STOP screen and tells me that
it can't load c:\winnt\system32\drivers\ks.dll


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com]
Sent: 18 May 2004 12:39
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] hardware issue?


Is the bios running?  No beep codes?  Video displaying the typical memory
scan etc?  Is the memory amount normal?  Can you enter the bios and check if
the system sees the hard disk?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 7:21 AM
To: Dba-Tech (E-mail)
Subject: [dba-Tech] hardware issue?


One of my colleagues has just knocked over a tower system that was sitting
nicely on the floor onto someone else's foot... aside from the obvious
Health and Safety issues (and the beating he's going to get from me), I
can't make the pc boot into windows (2K)... I've tried the emergency repair
console, and booting into safe and normal modes with no success... I'm going

to try putting it in another box as a slave to see if I can scandisk and
replace the driver that it says it can't load... if they fail, what are my
options? Reinstall?


Jon


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