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Had a computer die on me yesterday (only processor fan working on plug in,
nothing whatsoever else and on/off switch lights up but doesn't do anything)
so I pulled out a box I hadn't used in some months
It logs in in a peculiar way, with the need to CAD and then type in
ADMINISTRATOR (and no password) before it will start windows. Never figured
out why though it calls it some type of 'security policy'. There are two
names in the lower part of the screen, DOMAIN1 and some past user. Neither
of which will log on. I assume someone in a past life had this on some
network but I certainly don't need this any more.
On start, I used it for a few hours successfully and then shut down. On
restart it wanted to install updates and installed 34 of them, all
successfully. Something was telling it however not to let me go on line,
presumably as these updates hadn't been installed and it wasn't considered
safe by the OS?
However I cant now get the computer to start properly: It wont get past the
CAD log in screen. It wont accept the ADMINISTRATOR user name or accept OK
in either instance or let me cancel out (canceling out just gets me back to
the screen telling me to CAD again.
Does anyone recognise these symptoms please? Do I just boot into a UBCD4WIN
file manager screen, delete the SAM file and edit the boot.ini in some way
and if so, how? Delete everything to the right of the windows start line and
put in /fastdetect?
nothing whatsoever else and on/off switch lights up but doesn't do anything)
so I pulled out a box I hadn't used in some months
It logs in in a peculiar way, with the need to CAD and then type in
ADMINISTRATOR (and no password) before it will start windows. Never figured
out why though it calls it some type of 'security policy'. There are two
names in the lower part of the screen, DOMAIN1 and some past user. Neither
of which will log on. I assume someone in a past life had this on some
network but I certainly don't need this any more.
On start, I used it for a few hours successfully and then shut down. On
restart it wanted to install updates and installed 34 of them, all
successfully. Something was telling it however not to let me go on line,
presumably as these updates hadn't been installed and it wasn't considered
safe by the OS?
However I cant now get the computer to start properly: It wont get past the
CAD log in screen. It wont accept the ADMINISTRATOR user name or accept OK
in either instance or let me cancel out (canceling out just gets me back to
the screen telling me to CAD again.
Does anyone recognise these symptoms please? Do I just boot into a UBCD4WIN
file manager screen, delete the SAM file and edit the boot.ini in some way
and if so, how? Delete everything to the right of the windows start line and
put in /fastdetect?