Severe login problem

[Guest]

Hello all.

XP has recently given me a very bad login problem- no one can login. And I mean no one- administrator, local guest, any other user. The machine is on a domain , and no users can logon that way either. It goes like this:
Enter username&Passwd
"Loading you settings"
"Applying your settings"
"saving your settings"

and back to the login screen. Its that way for everyone. I even tried adding a user to the domain(who has never logged before) and logging in on the XP machine, still no luck. Any variant of safe mode gives the same problem. Last known good config won't work. I would check the event viewer & run sysrestore, but I can't even get in to do that. To let you know this is about the 5th time this has happened on the machine, and each time the only thing I could do was format it and reinstall. But i'd really like to actually fix it this time, rathe rthan just start over. The machine dual-boots with windows 2000, so any file deletion/restoration can be done that way. The problem has happene on windows 2000 before as well. The domain server event log doesn't show anyhthing out of the ordinary.
Does anyone know what is happening? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[IBTerry [MSFT]]

Does this happen on all XP machines or is the problem isolated to the one
machine? You should try to view the event log remotely if you have another
machine. Just run EVENTVWR from RUN on the start menu. Right click on
Event Viewer and you will see the option to connect to another computer.
You should then be able to look at the event logs on this machine. If you
see anything interesting please post it and we will see what we can do.

IBTerry [MSFT]
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[Guest]

I tried the connect option, but it timed out with "The network path cannot be found", no matter which machine i tried ot connect from
I can use remote desktop to access the machine, but still cannot log on
I tried to view the event logs in windows 2000 and another windows xp machine by copying the .EVT files over any trying to view them , but every one said they were corrupt
This is the only machine the problem occurs on. It occured on the windows 2000 that is on the same machine a while back, and I formatted and reinstalled ot get everything working again.