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Six year old Athlon system - originally XP Home upgraded to Professional (six
years ago), Norton antivirus updated regularly and scans run daily; no major
problems or issues until a restart performed Friday evening (3rd) which now
(as have subsequent starts) give the following dialog after successful POST
and the initial windows logo appears:
winlogon.exe - Application Error
The instruction at "0x77edd65" referenced memory at "0x77e8dd65". The
required data was not placed into memory because of an i/o error status of
"0xc000009c".
I've tried booting from the OEM recovery disk, but apparently the drivers
aren't loaded in time for this to happen!
I can't determine, having read various forums, whether this indicates the
presence of malware or an issue with the hard-drive. Any help much
appreciated.
years ago), Norton antivirus updated regularly and scans run daily; no major
problems or issues until a restart performed Friday evening (3rd) which now
(as have subsequent starts) give the following dialog after successful POST
and the initial windows logo appears:
winlogon.exe - Application Error
The instruction at "0x77edd65" referenced memory at "0x77e8dd65". The
required data was not placed into memory because of an i/o error status of
"0xc000009c".
I've tried booting from the OEM recovery disk, but apparently the drivers
aren't loaded in time for this to happen!
I can't determine, having read various forums, whether this indicates the
presence of malware or an issue with the hard-drive. Any help much
appreciated.