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Help: A bit of a major Windows Problem

  • 02-11-2005 12:07pm
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    Thomas_S_Hunterson
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    I'm having a major problem with my Windows XP Pro SP2 Machine, if anyone could help me, i'd appreciate it.
    The computer boots up fine, and then the Windows loading screen appears. It appears to be booting normally, until when the login screen would normally appear. I get a dialog box which says:
    Security Accounts Manager initialisation failed because of the following error: The handle is invalid Error Status 0xc0000008. Please click OK to shutdown this system and reboot in safe mode. Check Errorlog for more details
    When I click the OK button, the computer just reboots normally, and not into safe mode. When I do boot it into safe mode i get the same error and cant even get in to attempt fixing it.
    I have also tried booting the computer with a Linux Live Boot CD (SLAX), but this doesn't work either, it just halts during the boot sequence, which may indicate a hardware problem, but i'm not sure.

    This problem with WIndows has just started occuring recently, but the machine has been giving trouble for a while. In the past, (ie up until the time I started getting this problem), when I would login to windows and open My COmputer or Firefox, the computer would just cut out and reboot, and then when it did reboot, it would inform me that windows has recovered form a major system error (or something along those lines), and then it would usually be fine.

    Is it a case where I might as well just format and re-install windows? I'd prefer to use that as a very last resort, because i'd like to save what i've got on the hard drives.
    Thanks


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