fatal system error upon startup

[Mike]

after useing the windows update i restarted to find the
following message, "STOP: c000021a {fatal System Error}
The windows logon process terminated unexpectedly with a
status of 0x00000080 (0x000000000 0x00000000).
The system has been shut down.
This is on win XP home running on a sony VIAO which means
there is no windows disk to try to repair from, only the
sont disks which want to re-partition the drive and
restore the system... any ideas or suggestions...????

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Try the following link to Jim Eshelman's web site:

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

 

[Guest]

the best thing that anyone who has had the misfortune of
installing this piece of crap is to remove SP2 from your
system by going to control panel add remove programs and
remove windows hotfix SP2 this process should restore
your system back to proper working condition. This so
called update has cost me and many others hours of
waisted time and aggravation. Another microsoft disaster.
good luck my friend...

 

[Jeff]

to anonymous,

If you don`t like it, why don`t you switch to a different
OS then. I have seen posts from people who have installed
it on lots of machines with no problem. Also seen posts
from those who had problems because they didn`t prepare
their computers properly bofore the upgrade. For some,
they installed so much crap that was mostly freeware
loaded with spyware that caused the major problems. So
don`t blame MS for your problems. They are not the ones
responisible in maintaining your system. If you followed
all the pre-install preparations before installing SP2 you
would most likely not have had any problems. Poor
preparation results in poor performance.

Jeff