Dump Of Physical Memory

[pfeffer5308]

Got a lap top here in korea that is running windows 2k. Upon boot, I get the blue screen of death that says:

 

Stop: c0000218 (Registry File Failure)

The registry cannot load the hive (file):

\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE

or its log or alternare.

It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.

 

Beginnig dump of physical memory

Physical memory dump complete. Contact your system admin.........

 

 

If heard of a system taking a "dump" before, but this is crazy! I am assuming that this has something to do with the RAM going or has gone bad? Any suggestions?

 

Pfeffer5308

[MikeJ]

No, the dump just means you have RAM dump enabled. That just means it will take a snapshot of the memory and "dump" it to a file so that if Dell asks for it, you can give them the snapshot and they can see what exactly was in memory at the time the crash happened.

 

But from the error you displayed, it looks like your registry is corrupt. If I remember correctly, there's a way to boot up using a last known good registry (by hitting F8 repeatedly while booting until you get the windows menu). Been awhile since I've used Windows regularly though.

[Madmanmcp]

Try this page. Your "registry" is corrupt and you need to restore or replace it.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;156640