Welcome screen-black-reboot

[RoseW]

In a new Western Digital harddrive -fresh install of Xp-home-patched to date on Aug11
and an internal card reader installed on Aug 15 by repair technician service. He did
a double check on the new hard drive( partitioned c and d) and the older second hard
drive with his utilities resulting in a healthy report.

Aug 19 at the welcome screen it was a very fast, black flash and restart to the
desktop.
Today- power on -starts booting-(summary code rolls by, beeps) windows sliding blue
bar-then welcome screen arrives.
This morning it sat with a busy hour glass. Shut down with the tower's rear power
switch.
Restarted and boot up procedure started and as the welcome screen appears screen goes
momentarily black and a reboot occurs. This time the welcome screen has a busy
hourglass for a second or two and the desktop appears.

When I go into the manager to uncheck 'automatic reboot' a dialoque box pops up
referring to the page file. The page file has been set to be on the second partition
of this harddrive-no page file on partition C.
This was a new 'message' for me and I didn't fully understand it so I backed out of
that. In the previous hard drive configuration I could uncheck that and discover what
the 'stop error' contained when this reboot happened (On Aug. 11/06 that previous
Samsung hard drive was proceeding to die-the stop error was signalling the correct
thing)
I'm not sure what to do with this 'uncheck auto reboot' and resulting message re
page file and reports. I'd like to get a report to see if its hardware or
whatever....
Rose W

Other info that might be relevant as to why I'm getting these load up halts or redos.
The event manager has had a 'Warning'report all along regarding the Userenv at start
up and shut down. I did use the System Mechanic clean up on Aug.19 and that warning
has not shown up 8/19 or /8/20
The only other error is Internet Explorer did a Fault bucket 133169037 - result of
using the 'Thestar.com' website which just shuts IE down if I click on a link in that
Toronto Star newspaper site. This error happens on my other computer also so I figure
its a fault with that website.

One additional software installed Aug.17 WinHttrack -to download my website (basic
stuff that I use daily was installed Aug, 12-14)

The services that are disabled are Alerter, Clipbook, Human Interface Device,
Indexing service, Messenger, Network DDE, Network DDE DSDM

Load Order -SysInternals Utility Aug.19/06

Boot Boot Bus Extender 1 ACPI Microsoft ACPI Driver
Boot Boot Bus Extender 2 PCI PCI Bus Driver
Boot Boot Bus Extender 3 isapnp PnP ISA/EISA Bus Driver
Boot System Bus Extender 6 Compbatt Microsoft Composite Battery Driver
Boot System Bus Extender 3 PCIIde
Boot System Bus Extender 8 MountMgr
Boot System Bus Extender 9 Ftdisk Volume Manager Driver
Boot System Bus Extender 5 PartMgr
Boot System Bus Extender n/a* VolSnap
Boot SCSI miniport 25 atapi Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller
Boot SCSI Class 2 Disk Disk Driver
Boot FSFilter Infrastructure 4 FltMgr FltMgr
Boot FSFilter System Recovery 4 sr System Restore Filter Driver
Boot Base 1 KSecDD
Boot NDIS Wrapper n/a* NDIS NDIS System Driver
Boot Network* 2* Mup Mup
Boot PnP Filter* 5* SISAGP SiS AGP Filter
Boot PnP Filter* 1* uagp35 Microsoft AGPv3.5 Filter
System System Bus Extender 14 lbrtfdc
System Primary disk 4 Sfloppy
System SCSI Class 45* i2omgmt
System SCSI CDROM Class 2 Cdrom CD-ROM Driver
System Filter 5 Changer
System Filter 6 Cdaudio
System Boot file system n/a* Fs_Rec
System Base 1 Null
System Base 2 Beep
System Keyboard Port 4 i8042prt i8042 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Port Driver
System Pointer Class 1 Mouclass Mouse Class Driver
System Keyboard Class 1 Kbdclass Keyboard Class Driver
System Video Save 1 VgaSave
System Video Save n/a* mnmdd
System Video Save n/a* RDPCDD
System File system n/a* InCDrec
System File system n/a* Msfs
System File system n/a* Npfs
System Streams Drivers 1 RasAcd Remote Access Auto Connection Driver
System PNP_TDI 6 IPSec IPSEC driver
System PNP_TDI 5 Tcpip TCP/IP Protocol Driver
System PNP_TDI 7 NetBT NetBios over Tcpip
System TDI n/a* AFD AFD
System NetBIOSGroup 1 NetBIOS NetBIOS Interface
System Extended base 1 Serial Serial port driver
System Extended Base 3 AmdK7 AMD K7 Processor Driver
System PCI Configuration 1* PCIDump
System AVG* 1* Avg7Core AVG7 Kernel
System AVG* 2* Avg7RsW AVG7 Wrap Driver
System AVG* 3* Avg7RsXP AVG7 Resident Driver XP
System n/a* n/a* Fips
System Pnp Filter* 2* Imapi CD-Burning Filter Driver
System PNP Filter* 6* InCDPass InCDPass
System PnP Filter* 7* incdrm InCD Reader
System Network* 5* MRxSmb MRXSMB
System Network* 4* Rdbss Rdbss
System Pnp Filter* 4* redbook Digital CD Audio Playback Filter Driver
System n/a* n/a* TermDD Terminal Device Driver
System n/a* n/a* WS2IFSL
Automatic Event Log n/a* DcomLaunch DCOM Server Process Launcher
Automatic Event log n/a* Eventlog Event Log
Automatic COM Infrastructure n/a* RpcSs Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Automatic UIGroup n/a* Themes Themes
Automatic LocalValidation n/a* InCDsrv InCD Helper
Automatic LocalValidation n/a* SamSs Security Accounts Manager
Automatic PlugPlay n/a* PlugPlay Plug and Play
Automatic PNP_TDI 3 irda IrDA Protocol
Automatic TDI n/a* Dhcp DHCP Client
Automatic TDI n/a* Dnscache DNS Client
Automatic TDI n/a* Irmon Infrared Monitor
Automatic TDI n/a* LmHosts TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Automatic TDI n/a* WZCSVC Wireless Zero Configuration
Automatic ShellSvcGroup n/a* ShellHWDetection Shell Hardware Detection
Automatic SchedulerGroup n/a* Schedule Task Scheduler
Automatic SpoolerGroup n/a* Spooler Print Spooler
Automatic AudioGroup n/a* AudioSrv Windows Audio
Automatic NetworkProvider n/a* lanmanworkstation Workstation
Automatic NetworkProvider n/a* WebClient WebClient
Automatic Extended base 2 ParVdm
Automatic n/a* n/a* Avg7Alrt AVG7 Alert Manager Server
Automatic n/a* n/a* Avg7UpdSvc AVG7 Update Service
Automatic n/a* n/a* AVGEMS AVG E-mail Scanner
Automatic n/a* n/a* AvgTdi AVG Network Redirector
Automatic n/a* n/a* Browser Computer Browser
Automatic n/a* n/a* CryptSvc Cryptographic Services
Automatic n/a* n/a* ERSvc Error Reporting Service
Automatic n/a* n/a* helpsvc Help and Support
Automatic n/a* n/a* lanmanserver Server
Automatic n/a* n/a* mdmxsdk
Automatic n/a* n/a* PolicyAgent IPSEC Services
Automatic n/a* n/a* ProtectedStorage Protected Storage
Automatic n/a* n/a* seclogon Secondary Logon
Automatic Network* n/a* SENS System Event Notification
Automatic n/a* n/a* SharedAccess Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
Automatic n/a* n/a* srservice System Restore Service
Automatic n/a* n/a* TrkWks Distributed Link Tracking Client
Automatic n/a* n/a* UMWdf Windows User Mode Driver Framework
Automatic * n/a* W32Time Windows Time
Automatic n/a* n/a* winmgmt Windows Management Instrumentation
Automatic n/a* n/a* wscsvc Security Center
Automatic n/a* n/a* wuauserv Automatic Updates

 

[Guest]

I'd be inclined to suspect that the original diagnosis of a faulty disk was
wrong.

The fault would appear to be still present. It's possible the new disk is
faulty too, but that isn't too common a situation. More likely is a memory
fault, IDE cable with a bad connection, etc.

The other question is whether there might be a Trojan or adware on the
computer. If the OS was transferred directly, this might still be causing
trouble.

I think you need to go back to first principles, and check the machine over
without making any presumptions about the cause. As it's clear the first
repair wasn't successful, maybe you should speak to the person who fitted the
disk first, as he may be prepared to do remedial work.

 

[RoseW]

Ian wrote:
| I'd be inclined to suspect that the original diagnosis of a faulty disk was
| wrong.
|
| The fault would appear to be still present. It's possible the new disk is
| faulty too, but that isn't too common a situation. More likely is a memory
| fault, IDE cable with a bad connection, etc.
|
| The other question is whether there might be a Trojan or adware on the
| computer. If the OS was transferred directly, this might still be causing
| trouble.
|
| I think you need to go back to first principles, and check the machine over
| without making any presumptions about the cause. As it's clear the first
| repair wasn't successful, maybe you should speak to the person who fitted the
| disk first, as he may be prepared to do remedial work.

Yes, I just wanted to see another opinion before I clattered at the repair person
because it will be just a bit much if this drive also is faulty. It was a totally new
install of the OS-no transfers.
I'm thinking its something else, possibly connected to power because its behaving in
the same manner as the original hard drive that proceeded to die on Aug.11
He is willing to do follow-up without complaint.
This morning,the third day of incident, I caught a glimpse of a blue screen and then
the black screen referenced that a power interrupt might be involved and it will
start up using the choice Normal Windows.
The ram was checked so its some other feature....and back we go to the work bench
<grin> and I won't introduce any possibilities- a good point.
Thanks for the input
Rose