Intermittently prompted for password at login

[BitchBang]

I've got XP on my home PC and it boots to the Welcome screen where I've
got 4 options to choose from. There is no security setup for the
accounts, so it should be one click to login.

On some reboots, I am prompted to enter a password before it allows me
to log in. During those attempts, if I leave the password blank I will
then get an error stating:

Can't complete the operation because Windows reported and error: "Not
enough storage is available to process this command".

I have plenty of disk space free and the box had 2 GB of RAM. I'm sure
that I've got an issue somewhere...likely in the hardware but I need to
know how to pin point it. I've run the Windows memory checker without
issue, and I've run some burn in tests without errors.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Wiley Coyote - N2K]

I Googled this and came up with this (assuming event ids like: 2019, 2020,
2021 2022)

"Not enough storage available to process this command"

Symptoms: Some hardware like 3COM Dynamic Access Protocol and USRobotics
PCI 56K faxmodem, and software such as Symantec's Norton AntiVirus, Open
File Manager and overloading services can cause to leak non-paged pool
memory. You may get the following symptoms.
1.You may receive Event ID 2019, "The server was unable to allocate from the
system non-paged pool because the pool was empty".
2. Your server may lose network connectivity with its clients and report the
following errors in the event log: Event ID: 2020, "The server was unable to
allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty".
3. Event ID: 2021: Server was unable to create a work item n times in the
last seconds seconds.
4. Event ID 2022: "The server was unable to find a free connection 4 times
in the last 60 seconds".
5. Your server may stop accepting new user connections and you may receive
this message "Windows cannot logon you because the profile cannot be loaded.
Contact your network administrator. DETAIL - Insufficient system resources
exist to complete the requested service."
6. You may receive the following error: "Not enough storage available to
process this command".
7. If you keep getting above errors without fixing, the server may need to
reboot.
Resolutions: 1. Apply the Latest Service Pack.
2. Apply the Latest Device Driver Updates.
3. Examine the Hard Disks for Errors and Defrayment the Hard Disk Drives.
4. Upgrade or apply SP to the suspect software.
5. Try to maximize the resources that can be made available to the Server
service. This may eliminate the error messages or only lessen the frequency
of the errors.

Link:
http://www.chicagotech.net/wineventid.htm

There is a thread here that you may want to review and contact Lawrence Lee.
He's pretty sharp.
http://frontier.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$14437?mode=topic

Generally this means that a process or applicaiton (at launch) is not
releasing memory as it should therefore MS XP reports this an "Not
Enough...". The other option is for XP to generate an error such as "Unable
to read from memory address: ????????????).

Try to set the app (or service) to manual at startup and see if the problem
goes away. If so, then contact the vendor for an udpate. I wouldn't suspect
hardware as you've not indicated any new installations of such.