Re: Verifier causes immediate crash on bootup

Hi,

You can send me the most recent minidump and I'll see if I can find
anything. Send it to the email address used here, and change the subject
line to "per req" to get past the filters (or I will never see it).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Glendale" <Glendale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:F7E4D7A0-6560-4365-A822-1FE216BC0B31@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I've been getting 0xc4 errors (driver error) and following advice in the
> newsgroups, ran Verifier. At first I ran it against legacy drivers (pre -
> XP
> Home) and all seemed to work. When I switched to ALL drivers on system,
> the
> system crashes partway through boot. I have dozens of minidumps but am not
> sure where to look for the driver at fault...or if it's even listed in the
> dump. Any suggestions?
>
> I suppose it would be too much to ask for XP to identify the driver in
> it's
> BSOD love notes.
>
> System: Toshiba Sat 1735 notebook.
> 192MB, 9gig, Norton Security, SP1
>
> A possibly non-related issue: Extremely slow boot (5-10 minutes) w/ lots
> of
> disk activity, extremely long app startups again with disk activity, and
> unexplained disk activity when seemingly nothing else is running.


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