Continuous Boot Cycle: AMD Computers with OEM Images - continued
When you reach the desktop or safe mode screen, click Start, Run and type regedit, hit Enter. The Registry Editor will open, on the left pane select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SYSTEM, ControlSet001, Services, Intelppm. In the right pane right click Start, select Modify and enter 4 in the Value data box. Exit registry editor and reboot your computer.
If all above fails, go to the Recovery Console (described below under Stop: C0000139 Error Message section) and type disable intelppm and hit Enter.
Stop: C0000139 Error Message
The problem is caused by the RPCRT4.dll file. The only solution is to replace it with the original file. However you can not do that when you boot to Windows, therefore you have to use the Recovery Console. To open up the Recovery Console, you need to have a Windows XP CD-ROM with you.
Boot your computer from Windows XP CD-ROM and when prompted press R to switch to Recovery Console. Select the number of the installation which you want to repair, hit Enter, enter the Administrator password (often the password is blank). You will be greeted with the command prompt. Assuming that your hard disk drive letter is C and CD/DVD drive letter is D (replace these with your drive letters if yours are different), enter the following commands:
cd C:\Windows\system32
ren RPCRT4.dll RPCRT4.bak
d:
cd i386
expand RPCRT4.dll c:\windows\system32
Do not forget to hit Enter after each command. When finished, type exit and go for a restart.
Bright Hub Tip: Creating a Windows XP ISO with All the Service Packs and Updates
If you have your Windows XP installation CD then you can create a customized installation CD with all the downloads and patches applied. You have to download a small freeware program called NLite for this purpose. Before running the program copy the Windows XP installation CD contents to a folder to your hard disk, visit the Microsoft’s Update site, validate your copy and download the Service Packs and the relevant updates to your computer. After you download everything, open up NLite, and select the ISO file and the updates. When finished, NLite will create an ISO file on your computer, which you can burn to a CD (make sure that you burn it as an ISO image, not a regular file.) With that CD, you can boot up your computer and install a fresh copy with all the updates.
This is a tip as a last resort if you cannot get Windows XP Service to boot properly.
