Tools, Tips and Tutorials » Booting Issues http://tutorials.simusonline.com Learn How-To Do Things And Achieve Results Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:54:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 DELETE Key helps to complete booting process after a “Press ESC to cancel loading sptd.sys” message. http://tutorials.simusonline.com/delete-key-helps-to-complete-booting-process-after-a-%e2%80%9cpress-esc-to-cancel-loading-sptdsys%e2%80%9d-message/ http://tutorials.simusonline.com/delete-key-helps-to-complete-booting-process-after-a-%e2%80%9cpress-esc-to-cancel-loading-sptdsys%e2%80%9d-message/#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 08:56:18 +0000 Simeon http://tutorials.simusonline.com/2009/05/03/delete-key-helps-to-complete-booting-process-after-a-%e2%80%9cpress-esc-to-cancel-loading-sptdsys%e2%80%9d-message/ A few days ago, I turned on my laptop, and it did not start. It just got up to the windows xp logo, and then just restarted. I tried starting it with the Last Good Known Configuration but it failed and the computer restarted.
I tried to start it in Safe Mode, but as some point, while still loading the drivers, it stopped and displayed the message: “Press Esc to cancel loading SPTD.sys”.
Pressing the Esc key didn’t help. The computer just kept showing quickly a blank screen and restarting.
This problem occurred after I had installed and then uninstalled the same day a PDF edit and I thought that I should try to find a way of restoring my computer to a previous state where it was stable.

This morning, I decided to have a closer look at what was happening and to sort that problem out. As before, I could not boot normally, could not get the Last Known Good Configuration, and in the Safe Mode, I was still getting the message “Press Esc to cancel loading SPTD.sys”.

But before taking any other step, I wanted first to see which message the laptop generated before restarting while starting in normal mode. Normally it shows a blank screen and restarts so fast that I have no way of seeing the error message. So I decided to start the computer in Normal mode, and while the computer was loading the windows XP logo, I kept pressing the DELETE key repeatedly. My ‘silly’ idea was that I would hopefully be able to stop the computer at the point of error and be able to read the message it displays before restarting.
I don’t know if it is by chance, but the computer didn’t stop at the blank screen. It continued the booting process and Windows XP started normally. I was so happy.
After logging in, I found the Restore Point before the date I installed the last software and I restored that configuration.
I restarted the computer and everything is now working fine.
I thought that sharing this experience would probably be useful for some people in the future.

]]> http://tutorials.simusonline.com/delete-key-helps-to-complete-booting-process-after-a-%e2%80%9cpress-esc-to-cancel-loading-sptdsys%e2%80%9d-message/feed/ 0