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Re: Guest Win XP Pro SP3 Crashes on Boot splashscreen.
Posted: 13. Jun 2009, 14:44
by Perryg
Few things to check:
Try setting the guest memory to 2048 to see if it will go ahead and boot.
Try turning off the USB part for now to see if it will allow a boot.
Since you said it stopped booting after a series of updates it may be you do not have any drive space available look and see how much HD space is left.
Only other thing that I can think of that would cause Windows to shutdown itself is too many files in the root of Windows, you can have a Max. of 255 files in the root.
Re: Guest Win XP Pro SP3 Crashes on Boot splashscreen.
Posted: 13. Jun 2009, 21:16
by hammer
> Try setting the guest memory to 2048 to see if it will go ahead and boot.
doesn't help
> Try turning off the USB part for now to see if it will allow a boot.
doesn't help
> Since you said it stopped booting after a series of updates it may be you do not have any drive space available
> look and see how much HD space is left.
10Gb hd space is left...
> Only other thing that I can think of that would cause Windows to shutdown itself is too many files in the root of Windows, you can have a Max. of 255 files in the root.
checked. less than 255.
Re: Guest Win XP Pro SP3 Crashes on Boot splashscreen.
Posted: 13. Jun 2009, 21:22
by vbox4me2
Create a new VM and attach VDI to that.
Re: Guest Win XP Pro SP3 Crashes on Boot splashscreen.
Posted: 13. Jun 2009, 21:25
by hammer
vbox4me2 wrote:Create a new VM and attach VDI to that.
tried. same result.
Re: Guest Win XP Pro SP3 Crashes on Boot splashscreen.
Posted: 13. Jun 2009, 21:29
by vbox4me2
Recovery/repair mode from xp install cd ?
Re: Guest Win XP Pro SP3 Crashes on Boot splashscreen.
Posted: 15. Jun 2009, 21:52
by bensonpeck@gmail.com
Evidently Hammer and I have the same or a very similar problem.
I'm running Avast! anti-virus in the Win XP Guest. Memory is fine, plenty of space left on the drive...
I tried creating a new VM and attaching the VDI to it - same problem results.
I also tried changing USB settings / shutting off USB - same problem results.
Re: Guest Win XP Pro SP3 Crashes on Boot splashscreen.
Posted: 15. Jun 2009, 22:01
by vbox4me2
If this is really backtracked to patches you will have to resort to using a linuxcd or bartpe to reverse the patches manually.
Re: Guest Win XP Pro SP3 Crashes on Boot splashscreen.
Posted: 16. Jun 2009, 08:33
by bensonpeck@gmail.com
Well I've given up and just reinstalled everything. It took a few hours, but I decided it wasn't worth the time investment to figure out what went wrong. Thanks to everyone who gave advice/tried to help!
Re: Guest Win XP Pro SP3 Crashes on Boot splashscreen.
Posted: 24. Jun 2009, 17:15
by horsey
On a Win 2000 guest, Microsoft's hotfix
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968537 causes the VM to power off before it gets as far as the login screen. Booting the VM from CD enables you to remove the "fix" at a Recovery Console, which resolves the issue. The hotfix applies to XP too, so it may have been the problem here.