Windows 2000 Lockup during boot

I have a laptop with Windows 2000. I can't boot past the splash
screen. It locks up and the hard drive light stops blinking and I have
to reboot, only to have the same thing happen.

I can get into Windows via Safe Mode and Safe Mode with Networking. My
event logs show COM+ and DCOM errors. I have taken steps to fix these,
deleting the COM3 registry node and reinstalling, but that doesn't work
- booting normally still locks up.

I have Windows 2000 Pro, Service Pack 4Free. I don't know what the
Free means, I would think it would say Service Pack 4.

I have uninstalled the video driver and it still locks up. I have done
a last known good configuration boot, still locked up. When I look at
the ntbtlog, it shows what was loaded and what was not, but I can't get
the ntbtlog to write anything when I boot normally, just in safe mode.


I have seen that many people have had this problem, but nobody has ever
written back to tell if/how they fixed the problem (at least not from
what I have read).

Any ideas?

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