RE: Cannot Start Windows

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From: sp2 tester (sp2tester_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:29:03 -0700

I had the same problem the first time I installed service pack 2. I would
recomend looking for a Bios update and making sure all your windows drivers
are up to date. Then wait another 6 months for the service pack to be
successfully fixed.

"steve" wrote:

> I had been using my computer for an entire day and
> decided to install SP2. I'm
>
> pretty sure I ran a Iolo System Mechanic PC Maintenance
> Wizard and an Ad-Aware
>
> CE Scan some time before my restart. The only problem
> with this wizard is that
>
> you have to restart for the changes to take affect. When
> I finally had SP2
>
> loaded and the Wizard had been done for a while now, I
> restarted my computer.
>
> I left my computer for about an hour and came back and it
> still had been
>
> restarting continuously for that whole time I was gone.
>
> When it restarts it goes through the boot process and
> goes to the windows
>
> loading menu with the moving load bar. It finishes that
> and then comes to a
>
> black screen and exactly 10 seconds later(timed) this
> error message pops up
>
> with a blue screen of death for exactly 1 second. I
> couldn't even read it so I
>
> had to take a digital camera and snap shot it the
> instance it appeared. The
>
> error message said:
> "STOP: c0000135 (Unable To Locate Component)
> This application has failed to start because winsrv was
> not found.
>
> Re-installing
> the application may fix this problem"
> I can't even run safe mode to diagnose the problem. It
> gave me the same error
>
> message. Can someone help me out here? It would be good
> if I didn't have to
>
> reinstall windows, because that is just the easy way out.
> Maybe it is an SP2
>
> error with incompatablility with System Mechanic and Ad-
> Aware CE???
>

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