[Solved] Black screen on boot win XP following multiple crashes
Posted: 10. May 2021, 04:59
Hi there,
This is my first time posting in one of these forums, ever, so I apologise in advance for getting some of this wrong.
I have recently created a VM with win xp on the guest OS.
The VM was then moved onto a local server location, where it's functioning appeared stable (or as stable was being on the host hard disk).
Due to hardware constraints, this guest would frequently be used with what I think was borderline processing power, and I believe this had resulted in hanging up the guest OS frequently and/or causing the host to hang up. This would happen particularly because there was heavy CAD software package in use.
The last few times the guest/host crashed, a blue screen of death appearing in the guest OS. On powering down the guest OS and restarting it, I seem to recall a dialog box saying a log could not be found. After trying to open a program inside the guest, the guest would crash again.
I persisted in trying to restart and open software like this maybe 3 times, after which this has culminated in the virtual machine not booting beyond a black screen.
Things I have tried:
- safe boot
- toggling the I/O APIC setting
- trying different memory/video memory/processor settings
- moving the VM to the host hard disk (and then moving it back to server location)
I have attached the log file here.. please help!
Rachel
This is my first time posting in one of these forums, ever, so I apologise in advance for getting some of this wrong.
I have recently created a VM with win xp on the guest OS.
The VM was then moved onto a local server location, where it's functioning appeared stable (or as stable was being on the host hard disk).
Due to hardware constraints, this guest would frequently be used with what I think was borderline processing power, and I believe this had resulted in hanging up the guest OS frequently and/or causing the host to hang up. This would happen particularly because there was heavy CAD software package in use.
The last few times the guest/host crashed, a blue screen of death appearing in the guest OS. On powering down the guest OS and restarting it, I seem to recall a dialog box saying a log could not be found. After trying to open a program inside the guest, the guest would crash again.
I persisted in trying to restart and open software like this maybe 3 times, after which this has culminated in the virtual machine not booting beyond a black screen.
Things I have tried:
- safe boot
- toggling the I/O APIC setting
- trying different memory/video memory/processor settings
- moving the VM to the host hard disk (and then moving it back to server location)
I have attached the log file here.. please help!
Rachel