I should add that once it starts and I get the "this system has recovered
from a serious" box, when I send it says that it is a device driver. I looked
in the device manager in the system info. One device, a multimedia audio
controller has an exclamation point. When I right click on it, it says the
device is not working because the driver is not installed. The problem with
this is that my computer is a bit of a frankenstein and I have no ideal who
the manufacturer is or how to find a driver to install. In the properties
screen all it says is unknown. I don't know if this is related but that is
one other thing going on.
"malibumom" wrote:
> Ok, about two weeks ago my computer started up normally, crashed in a matter
> of minutes and then the black screen with the start up options comes up.
> After many attempts to start in safe mode, last known good configuration or
> normally, each time with the computer crashing and restarting always coming
> to the black screen.
> I have no idea what makes it finally boot but once it does it seems to be
> okay until it is shut down and then turned back on.
>
> If I choose the safe mode a list of different drivers comes up. Sometimes it
> restarts over and over again and sometimes it freezes. If I try start
> normally, it will restart over and over and then I get the message that the
> file WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt.
>
> I have been having problems with the automatic updates but was able to get
> it to work two days ago and installed a critical Net 3.5 update. Yesterday it
> started up perfectly and there was no problem the whole day. This morning,
> back to the same.
>
> I don't have a WINDOWS XP CD as the system was pre-installed. The recovery
> CD I have won't start the computer, even though I set the BIOS for a boot
> from CD.
>
> Any ideas?
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