When I started my VM today (in 3036, boot camp vm), I was greeted with a surprise BSOD (blue screen of death) with the message:
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I had no idea what this was. I hadn't changed anything. I hadn't done anything. It worked fine before. And yet every time I would do this. I could boot into safe mode, but not into regular mode. It would always crash right after the XP splashcreen, and right before the mouse pointer/welcome screen loads.
I looked and searched and found this thread where at least there were others in my position:
Build 3036 - BSOD
http://forums.parallels.com/thread6270.html
Also, google searching suggested this might be a driver issue.
AND, after managing to uninstall parallels tools in safe mode, going back into normal mode, windows error reporting got back to me saying it was a problem with the video driver.
After a lot more searching, I also found this thread which seemed to confirm my research:
All of a sudden, this morning, XP VM fails boot (crash)...
http://forums.parallels.com/thread6263.html
It seems that the common thread was people who shut down the VM in coherence mode (and apparantly while plugged into a big monitor).
Some people in the thread had some success reinstalling 1970 and then reinstalling 3036. Which I guess would "reset" the video driver. Problem is, you can't do this with bootcamp vms.
This gave me a bit of an "aha!" moment. Maybe, the driver just can't handle a change in resolution when you shut down in Coherence mode, and restart in windowed. So I set my resolution to 1920x1200 (the resolution I had it in last, when I shut down in coherence), and then reinstalled ptools. And Voila! It works. Even in coherence, even in build 3038)
Parsec figured out a possibly more elegant way of doing this than I give below. Probably worth trying his first:
Here is the solution, and without crazy reinstalls! (or at least, how I did it).
1) Uninstall paralells tools.
You might have to boot into safe mode to do this. If it says you have to complete the installation before you can uninstall, reboot in "Last Known Good" mode, and then uninstall. Restart vm into regular mode.
2) Set the resolution in the VM to the same resolution as the last time you shut it down (i.e. on your big monitors). For me, this was 1920x1200. This is the critcal step.
3) NOW, reinstall paralells tools. Restart. Hooray!
4) Don't be stupid next time (like we all were), and shut down only in (small) windowed mode.
Hope this helps.
Last edited: Dec 20, 2006
