RE: BSOD on boot, can't even get into safe mode

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305595/

The link above helps with a similar problem, but you might try doing the
above steps, and copying the files it says its missing onto that book disk...

If not, the parent sugestions are also good ideas...

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Hope this Helps!


-Adam.D


"felix32@xxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

> I have WinXP Home SP2 on an HP Pavilion 4200 Notebook, with an AMD1600
> and 1Gb RAM.
>
> Things started to go wrong when I got error messages on boot telling me
> that winlogon.exe couldn't start because shell.dll wasn't found, and
> that msgina.dll failed.
> Looked up the problem and Microsoft blamed one of their updates, and
> told me to restore the files from the CD. I tried, and of course it
> wanted the administrator password. Now, the machine is 2 years old and
> I've never once used the admin p/w, but there were only two options as
> to what it was and I tried them, upper and lower case. No soap,
> password rejected.
> So I started to go round the long way and do a complete restore from
> the OEM CD. This seemd to load up OK, but when it got to the end and
> rebooted for the last time, I got a split-second flash of BSOD halfway
> through the boot, and a restart.
> And that's all I've had since.
> I've tried starting with:
> Last Known Good Config
> Safe Mode
> Safe Mode Networking
> Safe Mode Command Prompt
> and all do exactly the same BSOD thing and restart. The thing flashes
> up so damn fast I can't possibly read the error message.
> Now I'm stuck. The only thing I can think of (unless anyone can help!)
> is a complete reformat and OS reload, which will lose me 2 years of
> stuff . . .
>
>
.

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