BSOD
Well as threatened in another post I am going to recount my near ‘digital death experience’ (BSOD)
I have a venerable XP install that auto-logsin to a superuser account with Tweakui that was working well, I had installed ZA firewall a few weeks ago and seemed to be doing fine along AVG AV. I decided to do some over due maintenance. I started to run VBA32 antirootkit (a Gizmo rec ) something changed my mind ( a help menu in Cyrillic). Ok no harm done.
I have a dual boot w/ W7 home, I booted into that to make a Macrium PE 4 recovery disk. Went well no problem.
I then tried to reboot to XP, I got the point where I could see my wallpaper and got a BSOD.
I rebooted again w/ the same results. I noticed a curious thing, my time zone had been reset to Pacific and I am in NY. I booted to 7 and examined the minidump w/ both blueScreenView and Windows SDK debugger. Research on the error codes said basically “hard to tell, maybe driver”.
Now I am probably scrambling the order of things a bit here but one time it booted in regular mode and I did an image. Next time I rebooted no go. I tried safe mode (does Win 7 dual booting add an extra keypress here?? ) Ok I’ll give SFC a try. No go, RPC service not running and not starting. I went offline and disabled most things with MSconfig (should not this be in the path? I had to the file to run it). Again no go. I figured I would try removing the biggest things that run on start up. I was thinking Nvidia drivers but found that a lot of AVG stuff seems to run as drivers soo I uninstalled and AVG and ZA just for kicks, yep that did it.
BTW another curious thing I noticed: AVG had started a update the second day into this.
I am now running Comodo suite and am blissfully happy, maybe in ignorance but they say ‘ignorance is bliss’.
Now I am not asking for any help as things seem to be working ( well if anyone has any insight into the time zone reset I am listening).
I would like to say this would have been a more enjoyable learning experience if my latest image was not 3 weeks old.
KUDOS to all who promote imaging[/COLOR]. The one you really need is the one you didn’t do.
PS
I did get SFC to start after everything started to look good, but it wanted an XP cd (bad files in dllcache?). I have always been a bit skeptical of SFC and reading up on it I am questioning how good a situation it would be to put SP3 files on a computer that has had numerous updates over the years after SP3 was installed. What mechanism does SFC use to determine what files might be ‘bad’ and would windows update re-offer a patch that had newer files?? I refrained from digging out my XPSP3 disk.
PPS
yes I did do another image
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