repeating windows recovery msg on new precision 650

Question

have a couple dozen new precision 650 systems with xp pro sp1

each user gets at logon an error message

window is titled "Windows - Registry Recovery" and
says "One of the files containing the system's Registry data had to be
recovered by use of a log or alternate copy. The recovery was successful."

there is nothing in the event log explaining the reason and all audits are turned on (via gpedit.msc) without any clues

anyone?

hessu · Answer

this appears to have been discussed here on other systems, without any real solutions

What system model do you have? Precision 650
What operating system are you using? XP Pro SP1
What are the system hardware specifications? Dell standard with dual Serial ATA 80gb (SATA) drives
When did the problem begin? Immediately upon setup
Did you load any new software before the problem started? Only visited windowsupdate and applied critical updates (company policy)
Did you make any changes to the system before the problem started? see above. ms windows update ran 6 critical updates, these can not be uninstalled as they do not have an uninstall in Add/Remove, while they are listed in that section

maxd · Answer

Note: If they are listed they can be removed. If you highlight one you will see the Remove button.

You'll want to wait for this board's resident expert, Denny Denham, before you make any significant attempts at troubleshooting this. I did a search on this message (1014L) and came back with nothing definitive. chkdsk was mentioned but that doesn't seem to make sense for a network. I'll assume you've ruled out a virus and that all have their own firewall. Did you check the Device Manager ? Did you run msconfig and see what's running at startup ?

If all appeared ok until you did the updates I would look at that. Did you install them one at a time and reboot after each one ? I suggest you download this MS utility to a computer and check if any of the installs need to be uninstalled/re-installed. Also run Belarc. As it says download qfecheck to System32 and run it from a command prompt. Belarc will pick up some hotfixes that qfecheck doesn't.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318159

http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=ld51c.12652%24rW6.8690%40nwrddc03.gnilink.net&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3D%2B%2522Windows%2B-%2BRegistry%2BRecovery%2522%2B%2B%2522One%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bfiles%2Bcontaining%2Bthe%2Bsystem%27s%2BRegistry%2Bdata%2Bhad%2522%26meta%3D%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q282784

http://belarc.com/free_download.html

Message Edited by maxd on 03-19-2004 02:51 PM

beachy · Answer

Have you found a solution to your problem yet?

We are having the exact same issue on Optiplex GX270's and SX260's. The only thing we did for this PC was join it to our NT 4 Domain, didn't even ge a chance to apply service packs. (Tried this to fix problem and it doesn't.)

I don't want to format & reinstall 12 new PC's (this is only thing I've found to get rid of the error.)

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