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BSOD on windows 2003 enterprise

i have an HP proliant ML150 G2 running win2k3 that is getting the blue screen of death at startup. I've tried last known good and safe modes and i still get the same error. no new hardware or drivers added recently. I have data on the server that i REALLY need to get off of. All i need to do is get into the OS to get this data off and i will be happy. Of course HP support says it is an OS issue, not hardware so they won't help. The full error is:

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0x0000008e (0x00000005, 0x808bc64d, 0xf7946508, 0x00000000)

i've googled the 0x0000008e error and it seems to lead to video drivers, but even in safe mode (which uses generic drivers) i still get the BSOD. Any help that anyone could lend would be appreciated.

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mikeleebrla

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OK,,, now the server is giving me the more familiar "the registry cannot load the hive file: \systemroot\system32\config\software" error with a stop code of C0000218 (registry file error).

i did find this article:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20406306/c0000218-registry-file-failure.html

but they kind of jump around all over the place.... but they do have this posted in it:

Boot from windows cd and select repair
go into console
Restore software file from \winnt\repair to \winnt\system32\config
reboot
worked perfectly for me

is that what i should do?

id really rather not lose a database that is on this server or have reinstall several apps on it.

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mikeleebrla

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thanks for the commments... i tried the recovery console, but for some reason NONE of my usual passwords allowed me to get into it (and i built this server so it had to be one of those)..... so what i ended up doing was just installing windows 2003 beside the origial installation so i could access the data that i needed,,, it worked fine...

Jay_Jay70

sorry our comments didnt help but thanks for letting us know what happened :)