On boot Windows boot manager says there was a system error, can not recover from hibernation. References 0xc0000411 and hiberfil.sys I never use hibernate. I just installed a p7n Diamond MSI mobo and Dual SLI MSI 8800 GTS video cards and corsair xms2 1066mhz 4gb ram. No HDD changes or processor changes. I've looked up the code and it seems to be either a ram fault or a vista compatibility issue. Ran a bootable memtester and plan on switching ram positions and reseating them. any other ideas? Thanks in advance. Will post fix if I get it too, hopefully someone else will make use of my troubles.
You installed a new motherboard and didn't re-install windows? It might be possible to fix this but it is always recommended to do a fresh windows install you replace a motherboard.
when i put my current desktop system together i didnt do a fresh install of windows and i spent a good 8 hours trying to get everything working just so i could boot into windows. this being two years ago i know more now than i did then
Wow, yeah. In 2 and a half hours of trouble shooting, that is the solution I came down too. I wish I had more properly backed up some things on my main drive then, but SAY LA VEE...or whatever. Thanks for reaffirming my next step of troubleshooting. An obvious solution in retrospect, thanks again.
If nothing is overridden yet, get to another PC and either slave your harddrive or hook it up externally using USB. You should be able to browse the drive and recover any files you may need off of it (your entire windows profile if you choose). On edit: Definately agree on the reinstalling after a motherboard replacement. Unless you're going between similar chipsets, the hassle to fix everything isn't worth it.
IIRC I've run into this and I've just put the HDD in another system (or via usb cable or maybe safe mode, it's been awhile) and deleted the hiberfil.sys file. It's just temp memory that allowed the pc to resume from hibernation/sleep/whatever happened. Oh and reloading is still the best option for the long run like everyone else said.
Whoah, a motherboard install = a fresh install of the OS. I've been down this road a few times and you'll always spend more time fucking with it than it's worth. And you'll end up reinstalling Windows anyway.
Truth. Even if you are paranoid and uninstall all chipset drivers through device manager before you shut down the old system, and start the new system in safe mode. You'll still end up reinstalling, as have we all...
Good to know everyone has the same conclusion, thanks all. now I just need to get this damn install to work... Dad lost the home premium we bought so I'm trying to burn my "off the back of the internet truck" ultimate, and having issues. heh, but thaks for the help all.
I did 3 mobo upgrades all on the same XP install. I think I used the same XP install for close to 6 years. I guess I'm just really f'ing lucky. Oh, and they were all Nforce boards, so that's probably a big reason it took so well.
I've done upgrades like this as well, I went from an intel mobo/CPU to an amd one. If I rember correctly I think I just deleted everything out of the 386 directory. However, I'd still recommend a clean install whenever possible.
just delete all the drivers, shutdown, swap boards, then run a repair from the cd before booting again (that will install the proper hal) fyi, for you guys keeping the same install between boards - XP/2003 has seperate kernels for single core/smp, so if you upgrade to a multicore, it will NOT take advantage w/o a reinstall or repair
Ah, thats what I did, the repair option. I forgot about that since it's been so long since I've had to reinstall XP.
You can also boot to a Bart PE or other disc and manually update the HAL, but I still opt to reimage. If this were OSX we were talking about then maybe, but it's not.
