Vista died?! 0xc00000e9

[Joshua-San]

This is the most retarded thing ever.

I decided "Hey, I'll just try to overclock my computer a little bit". I have a nice CPU cooler after all.

So I raised my CPU bus clock by 5 MHz, and rebooted. Windows was loading and...

It didn't start. In fact, it said a registry file had been damaged. It told me to use the Vista disc to restore my system, so I decided to try that out. However, before I did that I restored the standard CPU bus clock value. First I thought the Vista disc repair worked, but then the computer rebooted out of itself and I was back where I started.

I get the error message 0xc00000e9. Apparently a registry file has been damaged. And the Vista disc repair couldn't fix it either, in fact, the system restore actually fails! I'm running chkdsk now, I hope this fixes it.

I can't believe this. I refuse to format right now. This is so retarded, this problem has to be fixed. I repeat, reformat is not an option (right now). A simple 5MHz adjustment causes Windows files to go corrupt? That's simply bull and unacceptable. Even my old Windows 98 machine isn't as sensitive as that.

So what do you people suggest? How can I go and fix this?

EDIT:

Okay. What I did:

*Repair using Vista install disc

*CMOS Reset

*Reseat RAM sticks

None of that worked. This situation is starting to become hopeless... Looks like I will have to make backups with a live cd and reinstall everything. Am I glad I have a huge external harddrive.

Edited November 26, 2008 by Joshua-San

[DavidGP]

Hi

Can you boot to Safe Mode at all?

Dont know if you also tried the two options below, but worth a try.....

Last Known Good

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/e...1d1033.mspx#EOC

Startup Repair

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/e...f351033.mspx#EI

[Solidstinch]

Try a low level format, then re-install.

[jelli]

Try a low level format, then re-install.

I wish people would read the initial post before posting themselves... :blink:

As for the error itself I have had it once before and the only thing I could do was reinstall due to the lack of information online about how to solve it. If there is even a solution for it.

Edited November 30, 2008 by jelli

[Eric Veteran]

Apparently that extra 5MHz was too much. The computer freaked out and wrote some corrupted data. If you don't want to reformat the whole drive you can try booting from another medium and deleting the Windows folder before you reinstall. It's also possible that you may have damaged your CPU.

[mujjuman]

Apparently that extra 5MHz was too much. The computer freaked out and wrote some corrupted data. If you don't want to reformat the whole drive you can try booting from another medium and deleting the Windows folder before you reinstall. It's also possible that you may have damaged your CPU.

x2, its not Vista's fault. Things like this happen all the time when overclocking and ideally you should have made backups, etc.

I think best thing to do is to re-install Vista... either on the same drive on different partition, or on another Hard drive.

Or, you can use some sort of Linux Live CD and boot into that and save all you work, games, files, music, pics, etc etc. either on USB drives or DVDs.

best of luck

[+LogicalApex MVC]

Ah the fashionable blame Vista for any computer problem you ever have syndrome...

There is a nice saying that was told to me back in High School that you should learn... "Everytime you point a finger to blame someone else you have three pointing back at you".

It seems all fine to point your finger at Vista, but the fact more fingers are pointing at you can't be more accurate... You chose to do the OC. You chose not to do a backup... etc...

Put blame where it belongs! With you, the user.

[markwolfe Veteran]

Ah the fashionable blame Vista for any computer problem you ever have syndrome...

There is a nice saying that was told to me back in High School that you should learn... "Everytime you point a finger to blame someone else you have three pointing back at you".

It seems all fine to point your finger at Vista, but the fact more fingers are pointing at you can't be more accurate... You chose to do the OC. You chose not to do a backup... etc...

Put blame where it belongs! With you, the user.

So, when you blame another person (like you are now), does your "3 fingers pointing back" rule apply to you, too? :whistle:

[mujjuman]

So, when you blame another person (like you are now), does your "3 fingers pointing back" rule apply to you, too? :whistle:

I know what youre trying to say, but it doesnt apply to him because he didnt do anything lol. He has nothing to do with the OP's computer and the OP had a direct connection with using the computer.