You may have to repair Win2k. Do you have a repair disk? Even if you
don't (I usually don't), just go through the standard Win2k installation
procedure, but select the repair option. If that does not fix it, then
go through the install procedure and select upgrade rather than repair.
Upgrade preserves settings, but does a more thorough replacement of
possibly bad files. I have had this sort of thing happen to me a few
times. Nice to have backups, alas I say that but often don't have one
myself!

Peter
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-----Original Message-----

My win 2k box was working fine. Before I went to bed I
started the disk defrag utility. In the morning I
returned to a black screen finding a message regarding something to the
effect that I needed to find a windows 2k update. As I was stuck in that
screen I restarted the system to find the pc running through what
appeared to be a scan disk of some sort. Once the "scan disk" was
complete the system looked as if it was going to fly. Rather it restart
itself. The OS boots up to the Windows 2000 Pro start up screen, with a
small "task bar" on the bottom. After the task bar is full, of thick
cursor like bars, the system just hangs for about a minute then quickly
changes to a blue screen, then aborts and restarts. It will keep doing
this over and over. I have tried to run in safe mode and the last good
configuration, but only to repeat the above description. Any ideas?????

Francisco Archuleta

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