Get registry error when windows opens

[blazer2boy]

I have redone the system 5+ times reinstalling OS and System drivers.

Problem is after the system is operating the next time I go to start I get a message from Windows, windows has found an error in the system registry and will need to restart.

Also durring bootup I notice that instead of words I see just charters like squares triangles and others.

I replaced the HD as I thought that it was bad. Still same problem.

I have the following in my system

EQUIPMENT/SYSTEM INFO:
ABIT BX 133 RAID Motherboard
196MB RAM @133mhz
ASUS 7700 GeForce gts2 32MB video card AGP
12x DVD Creative Labs
Sound Blaster Live X Gamer Sound card PCI
Maxtor Diamond MAX Plus 20Gig Hard Drive 7200rpm/ATA100
Modem Blaster 56kb Modem PCI
1.44 floppy
Windows 98 OS

Has anyone had this type of problem? If so what solution did you find?
Any help would be welcome.

Blazer2boy

[This message has been edited by blazer2boy (edited 01-09-2001).]

[Paleo Pete]

Try replacing the hard drive ribbon cable. Bad cables can cause garbage characters, which I like to call heiroglyphics.

Also, when reinstalling are you formatting ffirst, or installing on top of the existing OS? If you reinstall it's always best to format first. Not recommending you format and reinstall again, just posting that for future reference, let's see what the ribbon cable does first...

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[Mox]

Something else you might want to try is "scanreg /fix" - boot up then reboot into dos and run it. You can't run it from booting off your start up.

HTH.

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[blazer2boy]

Originally posted by Mox:
Something else you might want to try is "scanreg /fix" - boot up then reboot into dos and run it. You can't run it from booting off your start up.

HTH.



I tried this last night no errors found in the registry. Will try this again as well as checking the cable.
Thank for the idea



[This message has been edited by blazer2boy (edited 01-10-2001).]

[blazer2boy]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Paleo Pete:
Try replacing the hard drive ribbon cable. Bad cables can cause garbage characters, which I like to call heiroglyphics.

Also, when reinstalling are you formatting ffirst, or installing on top of the existing OS? If you reinstall it's always best to format first. Not recommending you format and reinstall again, just posting that for future reference, let's see what the ribbon cable does first...

Yes I have do reformatting the Harddrive. Never thought to check the cable
though which I will do tonight.
Let you know how it turn out.



[This message has been edited by blazer2boy (edited 01-10-2001).]

[blazer2boy]

Tried replacing the ribbon no luck still the same.
Anybody have another idea before I Formate the drive and start
over again.

[blazer2boy]

Well I got the Registry error to go away by installing Norton Utilities and scanning the files.

Still get the heiroglyphics. I did find out that they are in the Autoexec.bat file. How do I figure what they are so that I can
Remove and reinstall what they are refering to. As the system just states each line of heiroglyphics as bad command and continues.

Please note that the Machine is running works fine all devices are operating, just this at bootup.

Should I use the old saying "If it ain't broke don't fix it."

[Paleo Pete]

Go to Start\Run and type in sysedit then click OK. Autoexec.bat should open first. See what it says. Autoexec.bat is normally not used by windows, and will be empty, unless you have CD ROM or mouse drivers installed for use in DOS mode. Mine has a path statement referring to bitware communications/fax software.

Any lines that have the odd characters can be removed by placing rem and a space in front of them. Example:

rem C:\DOS

That would be a simple path statement pointing to the DOS folder. The rem command is a remark statement, which is used in batch files for informational purposes. You can write a letter inside autoexec.bat or config.sys and the machine will ignore it as long as rem and a space is placed in front of each line.

If you don't see the oddball characters in the autoexec.bat file, I would run a good virus scanner and see if it comes up with anything, that's one of the things that indicates a virus has been writing to your files. That's also how they cause your computer not to boot, by simply writing garbage characters to autoexec.bat, config.sys, system.ini, or any of a half dozen other system files that are read at start up.

Some are more difficult to find, like the ones that rewrite the master boot record, which basically does the same thing...overwrites it with garbage characters, so the machine can't read it.

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