Re: Strange Boot Shutdown

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DaveC <bobason456@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:Xns965E16048BA89ohirohotmailcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> I'm running XP Pro SP2, on an AMD Sempron
>
> I'm not sure what I've done but when I boot the PC I get the welcome
> screen, then a system beep, no user name and password prompt. And it
> stops. If I press Ctrl+Alt+Del the welcome screen goes away and
> windows continues to load.
>
> When I shut down it spend ages on the shutting down screen then blue
> screens directly before reseting. so It does not shut down.
>
> Also it will no longer suspend or hibenate.
>
> Some times on boot I get a message "Windows had to create a temp page
> file because windows crashed last time..."
> In the Performance options, I see that the Total paging file size for
> all drives is 0MB.. I have this set to System managed size.
>
> Any ideas? thanks.
>
> DaveC
>

I found this error in the system event log.. dont know what it's about?

The Logical Disk Manager Service failed while registering for device
handle notifications on device \\?\storage#volume#1&30a96598&0
&signature59dc7174offset7e00length1314ff5a00#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-
00a0c91efb8b}. Win32 Error: 1066.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
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