Booting faulty after running Defragmentation?

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David S. - 30 Sep 2004 01:35 GMT

I have a 2001 Dell Dimension 8100 P4 running WindowsME.
Last night I cleaned out temp files etc and ran ScanDisk
to verify things were ok. Went into Safe Mode to be
careful. Then ran the System Tools Disk Defragmentor.
Had not run it in a couple years. It ran about 10 hours
to defragment my 40GB drive without any problems. However
subsequently I could never boot up normally. Each time
would power off my system. Would always boot ok into
Safe Mode. Fiddled with Diagnostic and Selective Startup
mode stuff all day but always would power off. Suspect
it was getting a watch dog time out after going off into
space which powered off the hardware. Here is where what
the bootlog.txt file always showed:

.... Bios boots normal, MS Windows displays windows logo
all above in boot sequence normal
...
Load Success = MSGSRV32.EXE
Init= TSR Query
Init Done - TSR Query
[0009c905] Starting Unknown (HTREE\RESERVED\0)
[0009c905] Started Unknown (HTREE\RESERVED\0)
[0009c910] Enumerated Unknown (HTREE\RESERVED\0)

system then powered off

The 0009c905 memory address always changed. Anyway for
reasons I don't understand, while selecting just a few
sys.ini win.ini and vxd's to load with a diagnostic step
by step boot it suddenly booted up. After that it would
boot up normally without any problem. Thus I am extremely
curious as to what might have been occuring. Otherwise I
may never defragment my disk again.

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Noel Paton - 30 Sep 2004 19:34 GMT

Most likely is that it's a hardware problem - maybe low voltage on the
mains, which caused problems with the PSU and then more problems with RAM.
It may be worth getting your PSU checked out, and/or your RAM (the first is
best done by Pro's - the second, download DocMemory2 from www.simmtester.com
and run it to see what it reports after a few hours)

HTH

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>I have a 2001 Dell Dimension 8100 P4 running WindowsME.
> Last night I cleaned out temp files etc and ran ScanDisk
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> curious as to what might have been occuring. Otherwise I
> may never defragment my disk again.

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