I'm running Windows XP Home edition (Service Pack 3) on my laptop. I've had this laptop for 4 years and not many problems aside from the odd overheating, reboot. I haven't had to change or upgrade any parts. I haven't had to reformat either.
Earlier this week, I was in hoping to get some suspicious stuff cleaned out. I suddenly had a pop up problem, and iexplore.exe running as system, which I never noticed before. I seem to have encountered some Windows problems/reboot problems recently/now since we started that process (not sure if it's related. I've heard this is a feature with IE8 - not that I use it).
I ran some a temp file cleaner, TFC, it told me to reboot, it actually went into this reboot loop. This has never happened before, so I was pretty freaked out. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but the blue screen would pop up... and SOMETIMES I would see the "IRQL not less or equal" thing literally for one sec ...and a bunch of stuff underneath it really quickly... then a reboot. After it rebooted, it kept on rebooting maybe two more times but eventually it would load, but VERY VERY VERY slowly.
Yesterday evening, we had a quick power-jump due to a rain storm and my computer made a strange lowish beep (probably a power thing, but it's different from the usual beep when I unplug my computer). My computer then shut down shortly afterward. I tried to reboot it and then it went into this reboot loop again, blue screen (same 'not less or equal' message), almost 3-4 times. So eventually, I had to run into safe mode to backup some of my important stuff in case I never get back on. Afterward, I tried to log in normal and I got the blue screen again, same message. Then I loaded the 'last known good configuration' (which is now) and got on the net to see how to trouble shoot this problem.
NOTE: that everytime I log in normal, I manage to see the desktop after putting in my password. My wallpaper loads, but then the system just sorta goes into overdrive then blue screen, shut down. [Does the system shut down after things don't load?]
To be honest, these string of problems just all came at once. i.e. iexplorer.exe suddenly running as system (i honestly have never seen it run so often, nor do I really use it), then i got pop-ups. The pop-up first showed up when I was playing Starcraft on my friend's wireless network. I usually have Symantic Live watch running, so I don't know where this came from. So i downloaded Ad-Adware 2008 and hijack this (which I didn't get a chance to use). I ran CCleaner, Ad-Adware and didn't find much and neither did my Symantec AV catch anything. I also tried a ESET online.
I know I should consider a reformat but I don't have a CD or CD Rom. When I bought this laptop new, Windows XP Home Ed. was already installed. I have the product key sticker still stuck on my laptop, but I was never provided with a boot CD. My CD rom is also out of commission right now.
I was told to check the event logs and find the "x"ed out ones ..
These two were at the same time:
Error code 1000000a, parameter1 00000000, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 804ff92a.
The server {0002DF01-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.
I had a slew of them at another time:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
Lbd
SASKUTIL
The Stuffit Archive Name Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
The Automatic LiveUpdate Scheduler service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
There were a few more that were similar.
I called one of my cousins and he said to post a minidump file because that's what he did last time. However, I have no clue how to do that.
Is there anything else I need? I'm running fine with "Last Known Good Configuration" safeboot. Does it mean everything is fixed?!
Edited by wakwak, 23 July 2010 - 04:22 PM.