Vista Blue Screen of Death (Stop c0000142 DLL Initialization Failed) HELP!

Rowley Birkin QC · 08-09-2009 09:01AM #1

Hi, I'm out of the country at the moment and my laptop is my primary means of communication home so I would appreciate any and all help.

It's a Vostro 1700 with Vista and AVG Free installed as an AV. When I try to start the laptop I get the blue screen of death, when I restart and go to boot menu nothing works, any of Safe modes or Normal boot. They all start to boot and then I can see a flash of the blue screen and the machine restarts.

I tried the built in repair option just now and got the blue screen with the following message; Stop C0000142 {DLL Initialization Failed} Initialization of the dynamic link library winsrv failed. The process is terminating abnormally.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Rowley Birkin QC · 08-09-2009 02:50PM

Anyone?

I'm running the system diagnostics "Test for Blue Screen" at the moment, will post the results up later when it's done.

Rowley Birkin QC · 08-09-2009 08:00PM

I've run the Diagnostics and they've come back with three failures;

Two errors showing unreadable data error or media is write protected and hte other about an IDE device failure. Any ideas??

Could a mod move this if it's in the wrong place?

Rowley Birkin QC · 09-09-2009 10:15AM

I can't run the programmes listed in the Sticky because I can't get into windows.

Is there any way to save them to a USB and run them from the boot menu?

Vista Blue Screen of Death (Stop c0000142 DLL Initialization Failed) HELP!

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