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Win2k Professional Shutdown Problem

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by paulfr2 1 view

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Ok, this may very well be a dumb question which will inherit a dumb answer later, but hey I'll ask anyways! =)

Whenever I shutdown my PC that is currently running Windows 2000 Professional and turn it back on again, I receive the following error messages upon startup:

C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM is either missing or corrupt... or I will get the same message but the SOFTWARE reg file is missing or corrupt.

Could turning off power management in the BIOS avoid this problem?

I'vebeen using Win2k since it was released and have only experienced this problem in the past 4 days now.

HARDWARE Spec:

Intel 440BX MB w/Piii 600e processor
384MB Ram
Promise Ultra 66 Controller w/Maxtor 40gb UDMA66 Drive and a IBM Deskstar 16.8GB UDMA33.

Tekram DC-390T SCSI Host controller w/20gb Travan Tape Drive and Sony CDU-926S CD Writer

Mitashita DVD Rom Drive

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by paulfr2

I ran scandisk/defrag on both HDD's and also ran Norton WinDoctor which didn't find anything at all wrong with the Registry.

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