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Hi all,
1st posting so bear with me.
I've got a MS6585 mainboard which was purchased a couple of mnths ago. All has been fine till Istarted playing with removing/adding disks. I now have my orginal configuration back on, and once w2k boots up and I put in my userid/pwd, I get a pop up window sayign that "either pagefile is too small or does not exist". It tells me to increase, the size, etc,etc. The pb is that I keep on getting the login screen back and never get the chance to go to the desktop, therefore stuck=shutdown/restart.
I've tried booting in safemode as well, same results.
I then tried to repair my w2k install, and when the system tries to boot 1st time from disk, I get the blue screen complaining about "an invalid exception memory error" or something along those lines.
My w2k pro has all the required patches to perform "normally" and since the motherboard
is only 2mnths old, I guess that the Bios is also uptodate.
Any ideas that you'd like to share with me?? Apologies for the long winded topic..
thanks..

This has happened to me before when I had repartitioned the drive, and the system drive letter had changed. It confused the hell out of windows and the only way to solve it was to:
A/ Go through lots of hassle with the registry in rescue mode
B/ Reinstall, slap my wrists and tell myself off for being so careless.
Also if u r a performance junkie and put your swap file on a different drive and have recently added a CD, DVD, HD or whatever it could change the drive letters and again it will screw up everything.
Also use NTFS where possible and not FAT32 - it's better at recovering from unexpected resets etc.
Best thing is to use the Knowledge Base at MS and put your symptoms in yourself:
http://msdn.microsoft.com
Cheers
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