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by paulha2

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We have a machine with Windows NT4 that displays a continuous ctr-alt-del. It never allows you to logon. Has anyone found a solution to it or have you just reinstalled Windows NT4

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by scott.heath

More info please. Do you login and it reboots? Does it just not respond when you press ctrl-alt-del?

Could it be your Keyboard?

by anothernetadmin

Have you rebooted this machine? I've seen this happen when there was no available memory on a machine. Worst case try rebooting in safe mode and adjusting your Swap File sizes...

I do agree that more information is needed, how much free space is there on your drives, where is your page file located and how big is it?

by paulha2

No you get the ctrl-alt-del screen, hit ctrl-alt-del and it starts to go to the desktop and then comes back up with the ctrl-alt-del

by wcp

I had a similar problem as yours. But it was in Win 2K Pro. After Ctrl+Alt+Del, I would get an error message saying either pagefile is missing or too small. After I hit OK button, it will loop back to Ctrl+Alt+Del window.

The resolution was to boot with a Win98 Startup disk and at the A:>, type

Fdisk/mbr

It is worth trying in your case.

by paulha2

9 Gb Drive total, C: is 2 Gb and D: is 7Gb. free space on C: is 469 Mb. Free Space on D: is 4.6 Gb. Swap file is on D: and is 765 Mb. Machine has 512 Mb ram.

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