Startup Problem

[Matt]

About last Thursday my PC began to show a blue screen on
startup. The STOP code was as follows:

0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0xE181E238, 0xF8984110, 0xF8983E10)

Following the Clean Boot Troubleshooting guide I managed to
isolate the problem to the following two entries in the
WIN.INI file:

[fonts]
[extensions]

However this doesn't tell me much and I'm at a loss as to
what to do next to resolve the problem. I'm strangely
reluctant to use System Restore except as a second-to-last
resort. Anyone able to help in this?

 

[Guest]

Matt System retore isnt a bad thing.
Do you do proper maintainence?? Check disk defrag? Thats important but will not fix this problem..But you may try
Do you run any anti virus software? And Ad-aware? If not get some
And keep the definitions up to date
If you have run a virus scan and all is clean.
Go ahead and do a restore. Its not a bad thing. But if you have a virus restore will not work as it will be in the retore point as well. Just keep that in mind. Not saying you do...but...We know little about your pc etc

 

[Matt]

System Restore wasn't needed. Disabling those entries
seemed to disable my sound, so I acted on a hunch and
re-installed my sound drivers. After enabling those entries
again, and multiple restarts to get the SCU to return to
normal statup, the problem appears to be solved.

but thanks anyway