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Answer» A friend of mine asked me to reformat the harddrive in his computer. Heres the specs: AMD 64 Athlon 1.5gb of ram (in 2 x 256mb and 2 x 512mb) 160gb IDE HDD onboard graphics and a 288W PSU Ive spent the last 10 hours trying to get it to work. and i havnt gotten very far. At first, it kept turning off about a minute after booting from the XP disc. Eventually, i figured out its overheating. The temp monitor in the BIOS said it was sitting at about 100C. When it gets to 125, it turns off. So I cleaned it out, added a bunch of FANS, cleaned the CPU heatsink and replaced the thermal paste, took the side off, and after all that, it was only down to like 92C in bios and still overheated when installing XP. Right now I have it RUNNING by an open window (its about -20C outside) and the bios says its about 78C. It does work, but thats hardly a practical solution. Is it possible theres something wrong with the sensor? Well, that would seem like its enough trouble for one computer. but no. Ive finally reformatted the harddrive, which seemed to go relatively well, when it was DONE, it did its stuff and then restarted like it should. When it restarted, it got to the XP loading screen and now its just sitting there, endlessly loading. smae thing happens in safe mode except it sits at a giant list of directories. I should mention that the reason im reformatting it in the first place is because when it turns on normally (this is before I did anything to it), it gets past the XP loading screen normally, then it flashes blue and restarts. If it helps, the blue screen says this: Quote STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE or its log or alternate. It is CORRUPT, absent, or not writable. Beginning dump of physical memory Physical memory dump complete. Conact your system adminisstrator or technical support group for further assistance. Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Aside from pouring holy water on it, im pretty much out of ideas. ThanksWhat form factor?ATX1. If something is corrupting the registry, I'd probably start with hardware diagnostics on the system RAM and hard disk DRIVE. 2. System RAM Diagnostics. Download the "free" diagnostic software and create suitable media to boot the diagnostics. See www.memtest.org or www.memtest86.com. 3. Hard Drive Diagnostics. Download the "free" diagnostic software from the manufacturer of the hard drive and create suitable media to boot the diagnostics. See Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (TTID #287). 4. Reference(s): a. http://kadaitcha.cx/xp/stop_error.html#0xC0000218 b. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822705/en-usQuote from: bubbzilla on January 29, 2010, 01:13:20 AM ...i figured out its overheating. The temp monitor in the BIOS said it was sitting at about 100C. When it gets to 125, it turns off. So I cleaned it out, added a bunch of fans, cleaned the CPU heatsink and replaced the thermal paste, took the side off, and after all that, it was only down to like 92C in bios and still overheated when installing XP. Right now I have it running by an open window (its about -20C outside) and the bios says its about 78C. It does work, but thats hardly a practical solution. Is it possible theres something wrong with the sensor?... Until you can figure out why it's overheating, no sense trying to install the OS. Maybe your friend tried to overclock and the voltages are set all wrong. Reset the BIOS and see what happens.Update: Well, heat sink is definitely installed right now. Ive tried using a different PSU, different harddrive, still nothing. I did a mem check. ram seems to be fine. After all the advice ive gotten, i think the problem is the CPU is fried causing it to overheat. If not, then its cause the motherboard is fried. If was just a matter of the sensor being wrong, I wouldnt be having all the problems with formatting and corrupt files. I have quite a few spare parts, but i do not have a spare CPU so i cant check. Does anyone know of some program that can check the CPU in boot?D oyou know if the heatsind and fan is making good contact with the CPU? I had this problem but my processor is an intel so it didnt over heat but the guy who fixed it said i was pretty luck still. The problem was caused by the bracket behind the motherboard being too far away from the back of the cpu. If you hear any vibrations coming from your computer that you wouldn hear in any other , this is probably the problem , I had that and thats how i knew: "help my computers vibrating!" "luckyest man in east kilbride , heatsink didnt make good contact with cpu" LOL If that doesnt work , the overheating may be caused by an uneven spread of thermal paste , but to be honest i doubt that since it was so simple to do... Good luckI haven't seen any listing of the fan speed. Should be about 5000 RPM for AMD, isn't it?

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A friend of mine asked me to reformat the harddrive in his computer. Heres the specs:
AMD 64 Athlon
1.5gb of ram (in 2 x 256mb and 2 x 512mb)
160gb IDE HDD
onboard graphics
and a 288W PSU

Ive spent the last 10 hours trying to get it to work. and i havnt gotten very far. At first, it kept turning off about a minute after booting from the XP disc. Eventually, i figured out its overheating. The temp monitor in the BIOS said it was sitting at about 100C. When it gets to 125, it turns off. So I cleaned it out, added a bunch of FANS, cleaned the CPU heatsink and replaced the thermal paste, took the side off, and after all that, it was only down to like 92C in bios and still overheated when installing XP. Right now I have it RUNNING by an open window (its about -20C outside) and the bios says its about 78C. It does work, but thats hardly a practical solution. Is it possible theres something wrong with the sensor?

Well, that would seem like its enough trouble for one computer. but no. Ive finally reformatted the harddrive, which seemed to go relatively well, when it was DONE, it did its stuff and then restarted like it should. When it restarted, it got to the XP loading screen and now its just sitting there, endlessly loading. smae thing happens in safe mode except it sits at a giant list of directories.

I should mention that the reason im reformatting it in the first place is because when it turns on normally (this is before I did anything to it), it gets past the XP loading screen normally, then it flashes blue and restarts. If it helps, the blue screen says this:

Quote

STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
The registry cannot load the hive (file):
\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE
or its log or alternate.
It is CORRUPT, absent, or not writable.

Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete.
Conact your system adminisstrator or technical support group for further
assistance.

Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Aside from pouring holy water on it, im pretty much out of ideas. ThanksWhat form factor?ATX1. If something is corrupting the registry, I'd probably start with hardware diagnostics on the system RAM and hard disk DRIVE.

2. System RAM Diagnostics. Download the "free" diagnostic software and create suitable media to boot the diagnostics. See www.memtest.org or www.memtest86.com.

3. Hard Drive Diagnostics. Download the "free" diagnostic software from the manufacturer of the hard drive and create suitable media to boot the diagnostics. See Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (TTID #287).

4. Reference(s):
a. http://kadaitcha.cx/xp/stop_error.html#0xC0000218
b. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822705/en-usQuote from: bubbzilla on January 29, 2010, 01:13:20 AM

...i figured out its overheating. The temp monitor in the BIOS said it was sitting at about 100C. When it gets to 125, it turns off. So I cleaned it out, added a bunch of fans, cleaned the CPU heatsink and replaced the thermal paste, took the side off, and after all that, it was only down to like 92C in bios and still overheated when installing XP. Right now I have it running by an open window (its about -20C outside) and the bios says its about 78C. It does work, but thats hardly a practical solution. Is it possible theres something wrong with the sensor?...

Until you can figure out why it's overheating, no sense trying to install the OS. Maybe your friend tried to overclock and the voltages are set all wrong. Reset the BIOS and see what happens.Update: Well, heat sink is definitely installed right now. Ive tried using a different PSU, different harddrive, still nothing. I did a mem check. ram seems to be fine. After all the advice ive gotten, i think the problem is the CPU is fried causing it to overheat. If not, then its cause the motherboard is fried. If was just a matter of the sensor being wrong, I wouldnt be having all the problems with formatting and corrupt files. I have quite a few spare parts, but i do not have a spare CPU so i cant check. Does anyone know of some program that can check the CPU in boot?D oyou know if the heatsind and fan is making good contact with the CPU?

I had this problem but my processor is an intel so it didnt over heat but the guy who fixed it said i was pretty luck still.

The problem was caused by the bracket behind the motherboard being too far away from the back of the cpu.

If you hear any vibrations coming from your computer that you wouldn hear in any other , this is probably the problem , I had that and thats how i knew:

"help my computers vibrating!"
"luckyest man in east kilbride , heatsink didnt make good contact with cpu"

LOL

If that doesnt work , the overheating may be caused by an uneven spread of thermal paste , but to be honest i doubt that since it was so simple to do...

Good luckI haven't seen any listing of the fan speed. Should be about 5000 RPM for AMD, isn't it?

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