Memory Errors Encountered During Testing on 2009-09-26
My wife's Windows XP Professional PC would boot into Windows, but whenever
she logged on and tried to do anything, the system would reboot. I
ran memory tests on the system with five free programs and one commercial
program.
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Viewing the Registy with BartPE
To view registry values for the version of Microsoft Windows on a system's
hard drive using a
Bart's Preinstalled
Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD boot disc take the
following steps:
- Boot the system from the BartPE disc.
- Click on Go and select Command Prompt (CMD)
.
- At the command prompt, type regedit.
- Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
- From the File menu, choose Load Hive.
A series of message boxes may appear that state that the folder cannot be
found and that the location is unavailable. Ignore these messages and click
OK when they appear.
The Load Hive dialog box appears.
- In the Files of type box, select All Files
.
- Navigate to the registry location on your target device.
For example, if Windows is on drive C, navigate to
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config.
- In the config folder, select the hive you want to edit.
The choices are as follows:
- SAM
- SECURITY
- SOFTWARE
- SYSTEM
Select a file with one of the above names without an extension (you may
also see .sav and .log files in the directory).
- Click on OK.
- In the Load Hive dialog box type a Key Name. For example,
Drive_C.
To load more hives, repeat the previous steps.
- Choose HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, and then choose the new
registry key(s) you created.
- Edit or view the registry keys.
- When you have completed your reg key changes, choose
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and a key you created within it, e.g.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drive_C
- Choose the File menu, and then choose
Unload Hive When prompted as to whether you are sure you
want to unload the current key and all of its subkeys, choose
Yes.
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Dxdiag - The DirectX Diagnostic Tool
Microsoft provides a DirectX Diagnostic Tool,
dxdiag.exe
, with Windows systems.
The tool is designed to help you troubleshoot DirectX-related issues. You can
run the tool from a command prompt by typing
dxdiag or you can
click on the
Start button, select
Run, type
dxdiag,
and hit Enter.
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