Windows wont boot

[pyrix]

May as well start at the top.

A few weeks ago my machine started behaving strangely - it wouldnt boot till the fourth or fifth try, then it started randomly crashing.

The other night it crashed after running BOINC (SETI at home manager), and I thought I had finallly found the problem, so I did the quickfix of exiting BOINC and turning off the screensaver. Then I was simply browsing the internut, and it turned off and refused to turn back on. By that I mean it wouldn't turn on in normal mode or the most recent settings that worked.

Being exam week, I was fairly busy and didnt want to troubleshoot. However, exams were finsied, so this afternoon I tried to troubleshoot. I said "boot to safe mode with networking" while botting, it got up to agp440.sys, then started loading something called b347.sys and d347.sys. After d347.sys it crashed and did the whole thing again. d and b 347 are optional drivers though, so i pressed escape when it went to load them the next time and the machine botted into safe mode. So I stuck in the windows XP disk and said upgrade (I am already running windows Xp home, but I wanted to do a repair install without wiping things off my hard disk.)

It installed.

I rebooted.

It crashed.

It boots past the bios, displays the Windows XP Logo with the loading bar underneath for like a second, then crashed.

Please help.



P.S: I am running Windows Xp Home Edition, SP2 on a pIII800, 256mb Pc-133 RAM, 80gig IDE WD hard disk (C: and partitioned E:, 8 gig IDE samsung hard disk (D, Lite on 16x Dual Layer DVD burner, AGP geForce MX 440SE 64mb and a PCI networking card. My most recent upgrade is Microsoft Wireless (RF) Desktop 1000 Keyboard and Mouse.

 

[riser]

Boot With Last Known Configuration generally will boot you to your last working config before you updated drivers.. that is.. if you have not successfully booted into full windows (safe mode I believe doesn't effect this)..

If that doesn't work, you'll want to look into doing a repair or system restore in safe mode.

 

[FoxK]

Also...go to control panel and look at the administration tools..then "event viewer"...double click on system and take a look at some red X events and post what they say...i just tried to install SP2 of XP over SP1 and i get the same exact prob....i see the windows load up screen (black background one) and then i get a superfast BSOD (too fast to read) but my event viewer looks like after sp2 is loaded..windows can't access the files it needs to load..here's what mine says in the event viewer under one of the red X events..

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
AFD
Fips
IPSec
MRxSmb
NetBIOS
NetBT
Processor
prodrv06
RasAcd
Rdbss
Tcpip

For more information, see Help and Support Center at

Another red event that looks like it goes along with it says this...

DCOM got error "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode " attempting to start the service netman with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{BA126AE3-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.