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by saltjohn.john

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I just shut down and restarted my server running Windows NT4.0. When it started, it came up with this message:Fatal system error 0xc00000(0x77f889b3) the window subsystem processes terminated unexpectedly. Dumping physical memory. Then it runs from 0% to 100% of the process:dumping the physical memory. After that the server restarts and the same process continues again and again without logging on to NT. Please help, this server runs our Lotus Notes (email system). This is a compaq server.

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by bearded_wonder

I would recommend starting with a good TechRepublic article, "Diagnosing Windows NT boot problems" to determine what part of the boot phase you are in when the problem happens, then you can attack it.
Hopefully you have boot disk available for the machine or have a machine that you can make one from. (Microsoft technet article Q101668 has details on NT boot disks).
If you play with these ideas and are still stuck please supply any additional info that you come up with and maybe someone will be able to help.
Good Luck
Jack Daniel, MCSE+I

by jsarinana

This has hapenned to me, my NT was corrupted and here is what I did with my server config. I have a C drive formated as fat and a D drive formatted as NTFS with a few applications including mail server on the D drive. I used my boot disks and did a recovery using my rdisk that I had made prior to this corruption. If you don't have a recovery disk try recovering without the recovery disk and when prompt to select what you want to re-install try only one out of the four options at a time to get your NT s.w. back up and running the less you need to re-install the better. All my s.w. and data on my D drive was ok after I recovered. Without a recovery disk you may lose some application setups but your data should be ok if your hard drive is partitioned seperatly like mine example. Hope this helps

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