win ME protection error

Hi there
My windows ME machine was being used when the power had cut out, the next
day, after the power had been resumed, i start up my machine and it comes up
with a windows protection error.. i have gone through the steps that
microsoft offers, but nothing has worked so far... are there any ideas? and
how this could of been linked to a power-outage?

thanks in advance
Jason

Pavillion N5310 Notebook

On the bootup F10 for Diag It reports an error something like this;

"Keyboard string error"

ME will not reinstall. ME Boots into Safe Mode with the video / monitor
working OK, but not into normal mode - it boots into a blue screen with no
icons.

HP does not have the "Keyboard string error" on its website.

Thanks.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/f...name=c00034791

IF the power outage was due to a lightning strike on your side of the cicuit
OCB
your chips and/or memory would be fried but that is a worst case scenario.
The blue screen you mention says
Windows Protection Error - System Halted ?
I was getting that Sunday, no idea if these are related but what I did was
examine
C:\detlog.txt file, search for "certclas.inf" OR munged commandline (no
quotes), my log was refusing to install devices because it could not locate
that inf which appears to verify the device is win certified (xp property I
guess ??). After that, I renamed IOS.INI and INTUPROF.INI so they did not
init and the machine finally started, then I swept up the hair I had pulled
out and ran a backup.
Hope this helps


"margetts" wrote:

Hi there
My windows ME machine was being used when the power had cut out, the next
day, after the power had been resumed, i start up my machine and it comes up
with a windows protection error.. i have gone through the steps that
microsoft offers, but nothing has worked so far... are there any ideas? and
how this could of been linked to a power-outage?

thanks in advance
Jason