Blue Screen 0x0000006B - PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

Anonymous
2010-08-17T01:32:35+00:00

original title: BSOD 0x0000006B - Work-around does NOT resolve issue - Win7 Pro x86

Running Windows 7 Pro x86 on an Asus EeePC 1000HE.  I haven't had a blue screen in three months.  Shocking.  Now, when booting (normally, safe mode, whatever) after the loading screen, before the user password screen, a blue screen appears.

PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

STOP: 0x0000006B (0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I have checked the numbers many times and have pictures of the screen to verify (taken from my phone).  I tried the work-around as described in KB981833 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981833). I used an Ubuntu 8 LiveCD to navigate to /Windows/System32/CodeIntegrity/ and deleted the Bootcat.cache file.  After several reboots, the blue screen still persists with the same error codes and the Bootcat.cache files has not reappeared.  I can confirm that it is not a hardware problem because the other OSs (Mac OSX 10.6.1. Eeebuntu) still boot and operate normally off the same hard drive.  This is just a Windows problem.  (Suprise, suprise)

Also, the startup repair on the Windows 7 install disc found nothing and did nothing.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-01-18T21:42:55+00:00

    Replacing the file with one copied from another machine fixed my problem, too.  Thanks a million!!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-06-24T07:52:15+00:00

    Me too.. I tried all the things in world until I finally copy a bootcat.cache file from other working system

    thanks a lot guys...

    ... simply copy a bootcat.cache from other systems (same OS only) to your corrupted bootcat.cache through booting into a live device such as ubuntu :)

     

    GLHF :)

     

    This works for me too!!!

    Thanks

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-01-26T21:25:28+00:00

    Hi,

    There has been a Hotfix issued since the date of this original thread.

    "STOP: 0x0000006B" Stop error message during startup on a computer that is running

    Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981833/en-us

    This might be required to prevent a recurrence.

    Hope this helps.

    Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP - Windows Expert - Consumer : Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-01-26T15:16:45+00:00

    ... simply copy a bootcat.cache from other systems (same OS only) to your corrupted bootcat.cache through booting into a live device such as ubuntu :)

     

    GLHF :)

    This works for me too!!!

    Thanks

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  5. Anonymous
    2011-01-10T13:15:52+00:00

    I got this error code too with no parameters... but after reading this thing... I just think what if I do copy the other bootcat.cache from my laptop (win7 and i7-gtx 260m) to the damaged  bootcat.cache (i7920 - gtx580)...

    Guess what, it worked... simply copy a bootcat.cache from other systems (same OS only) to your corrupted bootcat.cache through booting into a live device such as ubuntu :)

    GLHF :)

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