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I have been getting the 0X000000C4 error now for days and I have resorted to eliminating nearly every piece of hardware in the macnhine and it now down to bare bones. I can not get past a recovery R option in windows boot. No matter what I seem to do now. It wants to go back to finish the Recovery which was done as far as I could see. But, at the very last miniute of starting up iget the BSOD. If I knew how to get to Safe Mode from here I would check Verify settings. But I am stuck there too?

HELP, thanks for the interest.

John Monsees:)

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— the 0x000000C4 blue screen usually means the kernel-mode Driver Verifier flagged a driver. Since asked about recovery-console actions and pointed out the R path looks like a repair, the practical goal is to (A) get the machine into a minimal boot environment, (B) disable verifier so it stops forcing the crash, and (C) run hardware checks and roll back/remove suspect drivers.

If the F8 Advanced Boot Options menu won’t appear, try a different keyboard (PS/2 if available) or enable USB legacy support in BIOS, remove all nonessential USB devices, and try again. If Windows keeps trying to “finish setup” and won’t let you intervene, use a WinPE/bootable Windows environment or attach the drive to another PC and edit the offline SYSTEM hive (load it in regedit) to clear the installer’s “setup in progress” state so the system will attempt a normal boot.

To disable Driver Verifier when you cannot reach Safe Mode:

  • If you can get a command prompt or Safe Mode, run:
    verifier /reset
  • If you cannot boot at all, boot the Recovery Console (XP CD) and rename the verifier driver so it won’t load:
    ren \windows\system32\drivers\verifier.sys verifier.sys.old

    After that reboot you should be able to enter Safe Mode, run verifier /reset, use System Restore or uninstall the most recent drivers.

Also run hardware diagnostics: bootable Memtest86 for RAM, the HDD maker’s diagnostic for the drive, and test with minimal memory/modules fitted one at a time. For reference on the stop code and Driver Verifier behavior see Microsoft’s bug-check writeup and the Driver Verifier guide, and grab Memtest86 to exercise RAM:

Caution: renaming or deleting system drivers and editing the offline registry are advanced steps—backup critical data first.

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what commands are you using in the "R" recovery , i will assume "chkdsk /r" if so,are you usinf the winxp cd to get to the recovery and are you removing the windows cd and then typing "exit" in recovery to reboot computer

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I believe he means he is hitting R to do a repair reinstall.

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It wants to go back to finish the Recovery which was done as far as I could see

i take this to mean a recovery runs, but , don't know what going back to finish means !!

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