Death after logo

[Guest]

(Sometimes) when I boot up, I see the Windows logo with the blue progress
bar, then it fades to black. Doesn't get to the "Welcome" screen. Sometimes
it boots just fine.

Running Defrag and Ckdsk helps, but is not a cure.

Anyone know what could be causeing this? suggestions?

 

[Guest]

(Sometimes) when I boot up, I see the Windows logo with the blue progress
bar, then it fades to black. Doesn't get to the "Welcome" screen. Sometimes
it boots just fine.

Running Defrag and Ckdsk helps, but is not a cure.

Anyone know what could be causeing this? suggestions?

Go through these cleaning steps to see or get a clear opinion on how
clean your machine is and post the error message to your old thread:
= Click Start >> Control Panel>>Network and Internet Connections >> Double
click Internet Options.
On the IE properties windows you will see these Tabs:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs |
Advanced.
Under General Tab clear your History, Internet Files and Cookies.
Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:
[&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.
[ ] Disable script Debugging (internet Explorer) <= check this box
[ ] Disable Script Debugging (Other) <= check this box

Then click on Programs Tab and click Manage Add-Ons and Disable all non
Verified Add-Ons (You should Renable them later one-by-one and see the
culprit and update it or remove it.

Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software.
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827315>

2.... And also for malware from here:
<http://www.safer-networking.org >; for Spybot S&D
<http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah>


Run a scan from here on-line:
<http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx>
<http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?productid=symhome&langid=ie&venid=sym>
Download Avast Cleaner from here:
<http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-virus-cleaner.html>
Lots of tools to download and disinfect your machine:
<http://www.bitdefender.co.uk/site/Downloads/browseFreeRemovalTool/>
<http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5>
=How to perform a clean boot procedure to prevent background programs from
interfering with a game or a program that you currently use
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796
Download the FileMon to see the Running Processes in realtime from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/filemon.mspx
Or Process Explorer :
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Processesandthreadsutilities.mspx>

Open a Notepad, customize or minimize to the taskbar as you will need it
later for this step to copy the error message on it.
Open a run command and type in:
eventvwr.msc click [OK] you will get the Event viewer control Panel.
click on each of these:
Application
System
Security
Look in the right Pane/window for error message with red (X) or Yellow
exclamation mark /!\ , double click each one to get more info about the
causer.
On the Event error properties message you will see:
Up Arrow
Down arrow
Two pages
Click on the two pages to copy the error message then bring up the Notepad
you opened earlier and right click on the first line and select Paste from
the list, this will paste the error message on a Notepad.
Please don't duplicate the error message one of each kind will be sufficient.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us
HTH.
nass

 

[Guest]

I get the red X in the Event Viewer>System pane.

Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
DumaNT

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

I have no idea what driver it's talking about..?

 

[Guest]

Oh yeah it's the DumaNT.sys. It's gone. Can it be found on the net somewhere?