re: Problems Starting Up Windows
Thursday, December 28, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by D. Jones
(4 messages posted)
I've removed my hard drive from the computer and attached it to another computer,
so that I can salvage the saved files i needed, when I put the drive back into the
computer and i try to boot it up i get a blank screen the monitor is workin fine
but nothin comes on the screen but the monitor testing.
thanks for all your help
On Monday, December 25, 2006 at 11:13 am, Blue wrote:
>Trap" is an assembly instruction. It probably means that sometime when your OS was
>starting up, something went terribly terribly wrong (ie, something that Windows
wasn't
>designed to handle) and now the OS doesn't know what to do. So it does the only
thing
>it can do...it fails and displays a lot of vital things like CPU registers, CPU
flags,
>etc... This is the garbage that you're seeing below the Trap Exception.
As for
>fixing this, I'm afraid there's not a lot that can be done. The debugging symbols
>might be of use to someone who's working on the Windows OS itself and trying to
debug
>a problem like this, but from an end user point of view there's not a whole lot
you
>can do other than reinstall.
If you have data you need to back up from the windows
>partition, you can boot your computer with a Linux LiveCD and access your files
that
>way (email them to yourself? Upload them to some sort of other storage facility?).
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>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/150314
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