XP Home shows 'lsass.exe' message

[Philip Andrews]

Hi,

Can anyone help or advise me please?

Out of the blue, my Packard-Bell PC running on XP Home has started
showing a message window at boot time:

"lsass.exe - System Error"

(and underneatht that, in the same window)

"Object Name not found"


When I click the 'OK' button to clear that window, the PC pauses for
about a minute and then reboots itself, returning to the same point each
time. Clicking 'OK' produces another reboot. This happens both in Normal and
all Safe Modes: I can't get beyond that point.

The hard drive has been removed and run in another machine (wired up as
secondary slave), checked for viruses and spyware (using AVG 7.5 and
Ad-Aware 6.0), and was found to contain only tracking cookies. My best guess
is a possible Registry corruption, but I have no idea how it happened or how
to deal with it. Reloading the whole thing would be a possible option, but a
very aggravating one.

Help, please, all you kind and knowledgeable people on
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general )


Cheers,

Philip

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Philip Andrews" <[email protected]>

| Hi,
|
| Can anyone help or advise me please?
|
| Out of the blue, my Packard-Bell PC running on XP Home has started
| showing a message window at boot time:
|
| "lsass.exe - System Error"
|
| (and underneatht that, in the same window)
|
| "Object Name not found"
|
| When I click the 'OK' button to clear that window, the PC pauses for
| about a minute and then reboots itself, returning to the same point each
| time. Clicking 'OK' produces another reboot. This happens both in Normal and
| all Safe Modes: I can't get beyond that point.
|
| The hard drive has been removed and run in another machine (wired up as
| secondary slave), checked for viruses and spyware (using AVG 7.5 and
| Ad-Aware 6.0), and was found to contain only tracking cookies. My best guess
| is a possible Registry corruption, but I have no idea how it happened or how
| to deal with it. Reloading the whole thing would be a possible option, but a
| very aggravating one.
|
| Help, please, all you kind and knowledgeable people on
| microsoft.public.windowsxp.general )
|
| Cheers,
|
| Philip
|

While this won't help with the LSASS Module error...

Ad-aware 6.0 was discontinued a long time ago. It is no longer updated nor supported.
The latest version is Ad-aware SE v1.06 so I strongly urge you to delete Ad-aware 6 and
replace it with Ad-aware SE v1.06 and then update it. NOTE: Ad-aware SE is slated to be
replaced... soon. It could be called Ad-aware 2007.

 

[Philip Andrews]

David,

Thanks for the info on Ad-Aware.

Philip