Updated XP Failure to Startup

[Loki]

Running XP Pro Service Pack 2. Updated tonight the system will not complete
the startup process. It will get to the logon screen and might or might not
give me enough time to login before powering down. It ran longer in safe
mode but not long enough to be able to do anything other than look at the
safe mode screen. Would not restart to the last known good condition. When
I selected to not restart after crashing I get the message that
"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent
damage to your computer.

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"

and some information about checking new hardware/software and safe mode and
some "Technical information" Don't know if that means anything, or not.
Before this happend I had been having trouble with explorer.exe using all of
my free resources and I had changed some startup options. I had rebooted
several times without any problems (other than that explorer was still eating
up my resources). Tried updating to fix the explorer problem, I believe
there was 64 updates. Thats all the information I can think of, figures this
would happen the week before my thesis is due.

 

[solidsnake204]

Have you updated any of your drivers recently?

 

[Faustino]

No consolation, Loki, but I've had several similar problems, even with
swapped or new drives. And when MS suggests a device driver problem, all
drivers check out as cortrect and working OK. So I'll follow this thread
with interest!

Faustino