Corrupted or Missing Systemced File (Windows 2K)

Basically here is the story:

I have had it up to here with Windows 2000. It seems incredibly unreliable. I keep getting the following message, not every time I boot but just about. ""Windows 2000 Could Not Start Because the Following File is Missing or Corrupt: \Winnt\System32\Config\Systemced". I have to run in console mode from the Windows 2000 CD and rename "system" and "system.alt" and copy the good files from C:\windows\repair\regback (this is where the Emergency Repair Disk puts the backup copy on the hard drive). I would exit and reboot and everything would come up OK except once the file C:\windows\system32\config\software got corrupted and I had to copy that out of the same backup directory back into the Config directory. The problem is that I have to do these administrative things every 6th or 7th boot up. As you can imagine this get old fast and Microsoft has to have a more permanent remedy. I checked my "Device Manager" and found that I have the "Promise Technology Inc. Ultra66 IDE Controller". I have heard that this could be the culprit. I noticed that the vendor says it is compatible for the Win95 and Win98, I don't see where it says its Win2K compatible. Can you confirm this. Any way it would be nice to figure out why the system hangs after 4 or 5 bootups. I will tell you that I upgraded from Windows98 to Windows2000 and converted my drive from Fat32 to NTFS. I have done the knowledge base article from Microsoft several times: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q269075

Any idea why this continues to happen? Here is my system configuration:

Hardware



BIOS

Type Default System BIOS
Manufacturer Intel Corp.
SMBIOS Version A11
Version PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0
Service Tag EGEM2
Release Date October 13, 2000

CPU

Type Intel Pentium III processor
Number Of CPUs 1
Current Speed 600 MHz
Max Speed 1200 MHz
Bus Speed 100 MHz
L1 Cache 32 KB
L2 Cache 256 KB
Manufacturer GenuineIntel

Memory

Memory Capacity 768 MB
Memory Slots 3
Free Memory Slots 2
Total Physical Memory 128 MB
Available Physical Memory 31 MB
Total Virtual Memory 429 MB
Available Virtual Memory 176 MB
Page File Space 302 MB

Floppy Drive

Drive Letter A:
Type 3 1/2 Inch Floppy Drive

Hard Drive

Drive Letter C:
File System NTFS
Free Space 14.55 GB (15,623,649,280 bytes)
Used Space 4.46 GB (4,791,462,912 bytes)
Total Space 19.01 GB (20,415,112,192 bytes)
Model WDC WD20 4BA SCSI Disk Device

CD-ROM Drive

Drive Letter E:
Type SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-608
File System CDFS

Removable Drive

Drive Letter D:
Model IOMEGA ZIP 250

Video Card

Type NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro
Driver Version 6.13.10.2312
Memory 32 KB RAM

Sound Card

Type Creative SB Live! Value (WDM)
Manufacturer Creative
Driver Version 5.12.01.3509

Modem

Type Courier V.Everything EXT (V90-x2)
Speed 60 Kbps
Port COM1

Type Courier V.Everything External Plug & Play
Speed 60 Kbps
Port COM1

Keyboard

Type Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard

Pointing Device

Type PS/2 Compatible Mouse



Message Edited on 03/08/02 09:34AM by darnellb

Message Edited on 03/08/02 09:35AM by darnellb

Message Edited on 03/08/02 09:36AM by darnellb