Computer won't boot

[Bill Eversole]

Hi,

I am working on a computer that won't boot into Windows XP Home. It
stays on the Windows XP splash screen for a long time (over 30 secs.),
a blue screen appears for a brief instant, then it reboots itself. (I
cannot see the blue screen long enough to read any error message it
might contain.)

This same problem occurred a few weeks ago for my client, stopped
occurring for a short while, and has reoccurred once again.

It will not boot into safe mode--it freezes while loading drivers.

It booted using "last known good configuration" one time only, but no
more.

Windows Memory diagnostics found no problems. Western Digital
diagnostics found no hard drive problems.

This computer is a Pentium 4 with SIS chipset and 512MB RAM.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Bill

 

[Guest]

That happened to me once, it was a corrupt MOBO installation file (inf) for
the video driver, ect. Hope this helps.
Rho_1r(VIP)

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am working on a computer that won't boot into Windows XP Home. It
stays on the Windows XP splash screen for a long time (over 30 secs.),
a blue screen appears for a brief instant, then it reboots itself. (I
cannot see the blue screen long enough to read any error message it
might contain.)

Adapted from a Post from Kelly: I suggest using this method if you
have a proper retail type CD you can boot from (or you could use the six
floppy set you can download)

A User Logon Request Is Rejected Without Any Messages
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313322

If the above is not the case, this does work and has been verified:

This problem turns out to be that the Winlogon userinit entry is being
set to
"wsaupdater.exe," and not "userinit.exe,".

Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard Disk. Boot the XP CD and, instead
of Setup, take the immediate R for Repair. Assume any password
requested is blank, and TAB over.

Change the C:\Windows prompt to: C:\Windows\System32
by
CD System32
then
COPY userinit.exe wsaupdater.exe

Reboot into Safe Mode and use a run of regedit.exe:

Open to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT
\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

And in the right pane double click UserInit and change from
wsaupdater.exe to userinit.exe,

Then you can reboot and delete the wpaupdater.exe file