Hello All, I collected two different desktop towers from a storage unit, an Optiplex GX150 & eMachines T2895, which both work but Windows XP on both of them will not operate properly.
The Optiplex boots into XP but there's green dots everywhere on the screen and after around a minute the whole system locks up. Thought it was an onboard GPU issue but it happened when I used a different GPU. My best guess is that something on the board is bad, but it doesn't look damaged though.
The eMachines loads the startup process, the floppy drive seeks, then one of the two HDD's installed makes a loud click sound and display's this:
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 writeable.
I don't quite know what to do about that other than reinstalling windows but I don't want to do that just yet. Could I use an install CD to load in replacement files, or perhaps something else?
The Optiplex boots into XP but there's green dots everywhere on the screen and after around a minute the whole system locks up. Thought it was an onboard GPU issue but it happened when I used a different GPU. My best guess is that something on the board is bad, but it doesn't look damaged though.
The eMachines loads the startup process, the floppy drive seeks, then one of the two HDD's installed makes a loud click sound and display's this:
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 writeable.
I don't quite know what to do about that other than reinstalling windows but I don't want to do that just yet. Could I use an install CD to load in replacement files, or perhaps something else?