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just found this: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000365.htm

just FYI the related thread is at http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread.php?id=31329

while doing what you kind folks recommended, I may have screwed things up even further by following Help and runnning msconfig please see my current, related trials and tribulations at: http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread31378-1.html so, it's not BS'ing now but there is another problem, pre-BS I believe - that problem may indicate what the BSing started in the first place

NOTE: this is a branch from the "help! IRQL_NOT_LESS...." thread (http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread31329-1.html) While checking the mem and power supply as recommended, I followed Help under "Startup and Shutdown Troubleshooter" to run msconfig to check startup errors. It recommended to run msconfig - selective startup, clear the Load System Services check box, and restart. I got errors (below), proceeded to the next step (msconfig for Load Startup Items, then restart); then the next step, (msconfig for Process SYSTEM.INI File), etc. all as recommended in Help. The result was, the BSoDs stopped and the machine never came back up completely. Windows comes up ok, I can log in, but no Internet. I (repeatedly) set the msconfig option "Normal Startup - load all device drivers and services", and, in the "Services" and "Startup" tabs, checked all boxes (including HKserv). The startup errors are: HKserv.exe PCF Manager Local Server (PcfMgr.exe) Cypress USB Mass Storage Driver Background Application SM1bg.exe "...has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program" ...and underneath that "Run time error '-2147023838 (80070422)': Automation error. The Service cannot be started either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it." So...have I really screwed things up here? How can I get it back to where it was and all services starting? Am I not doing this correctly before restarting? Another question - why are all of my Restore points gone? I had a few left, and now no way to recover back to that? Related question - for restoring, it does not allow me to go back to Januarary, etc. restore points that I know I set - how can these be accessed? It would be better than scrapping what's on the damn thing by reinstalling everything... Re the IRQL problem, that remains to be solved but since it's no longer happening I can't really do anything about that now. Gotta get this solved first. Hope you folks can help, I just ended up messing things up worse for myself.

thanks zombie and jmmijo will check both mem and power in the meantime, I got the below from the EventVwr and just wonder if it's helpful (have a Excel sheet if I can attact that somehow) - this is tab-delimited: EVENT CATEGORY EVENT ID SOURCE USER DESCRIPTION System None 10005 DCOM NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM "DCOM got error ""This service cannot be started in Safe Mode "" attempting to start the service EventSystem with arguments """" in order to run the server:{1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF}" System None 10005 DCOM NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM "DCOM got error ""This service cannot be started in Safe Mode "" attempting to start the service EventSystem with arguments """" in order to run the server:{1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF}" System None 10005 DCOM account I was logged in "DCOM got error ""This service cannot be started in Safe Mode "" attempting to start the service StiSvc with arguments """" in order to run the server:{A1F4E726-8CF1-11D1-BF92-0060081ED811}" System None 7001 Service Control Manager account I was logged in The DHCP Client service depends on the NetBios over Tcpip service which failed to start because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. System None 7001 Service Control Manager N/A The DNS Client service depends on the TCP/IP Protocol Driver service which failed to start because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. System None 7001 Service Control Manager N/A The IPSEC Services service depends on the IPSEC driver service which failed to start because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. System None 7026 Service Control Manager N/A The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: DMICall Fips IPSec MRxSmb NetBIOS NetBT RasAcd Rdbss SYMTDI Tcpip Application (50) 4609 EventSystem N/A The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043C from line 44 of d:\nt_qxp\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error. Application None 8193 VSS N/A Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040206. I also have more Stop Errors I can send will update after runnine memtest and checking the power

just before bed got two more (3 actually) it BS'd, then I tried restarting, BS'd on that, then I restarted again, it BS'd and I restarted again and it came up. Here's the Stop errors in order: PFN_LIST_CORRUPT 0x00000004E (0x00000002, 0x00080ADD, 0x001FF6F, 0x0000200A) IRQ__NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 0x000000A: (0xF8950484, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x805274C2) IRQ__NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 0x0000000A: (0x69052BFC, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x80513586) wish I knew what these damn numbers meant jmmijo: thanks for the advice - I will check out the memory, but FYI, I have never touched the mem nor installed Windows, it has the stock 512mb, it may be more than one stick - hope that's easy to get to and replace.....

update on this: I got more Stop Errors: PFN_LIST_CORRUPT 0x0000004E (0x00000002, 0x00080ADD, 0x0001FF6F, 0x0000626E) couldn't get a mem dump because it did not show that on the blue scree, and after rebooting, got this: IRQ__NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 0x0000000A: (0xF8950484, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x805274C2) as soon as it restarted the fan cam on and it was blowing hot air thanks for the reply, jmmijo, will check that out in the morning (it's 3am here....) (got a full mem dump of this one. Wouldn't start again, kept blue screening, then defrag'ed D:, restarted, BS'd again, then got it to start (how I'm writing this) Please help......

Hi all - I'm really hoping one of you gurus have seen this before and it is some kind of Known Issue where there is a workaround. I have a XP Home v2002 SP1 2003 Sony Vaio 505 laptop with no added hardware and a few installed applications. Ok maybe more than a few. This PC never gave me problems before, but after I left it in hibernate for about a month while travelling, I came back, took it out of hibernation, and it blue screened for the first time ever. This is the Stop Error I got: IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 0x0000000A (0x00000020, 0x00000002,0x0000000, 0x8050377C) Just before my trip I installed Creative MuVo disc for the new mp3 player I bought for my trip. I have since uninstalled it (and a few other recently installed apps). Anyway, it started BSoD'ing after only about 30 minutes. One possible culprit is that I see the heat fan on after the blue screen. Not sure why it would run hotter now than before, the weather is the same every day here in Singapore (I'm not from here and don't know who could help). Additional information is that I do not move the laptop much so doubt it has been damaged. If I were to suspect anything it might be the CD drive but not sure, because it does work. Although I was once a Unix SA and did some Level 2 NT SA work years ago, I'm relatively clueless about PCs. But this should be an obvious problem as it's a standard unit with few and simple changes. Unless there are some issues with Sonys I am unaware of.... I set the dump to full memory dump and have one of those. The Stop Errors I was getting consistently afterwards was: IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (0x00000002 0x00000002 0xF895D484, 0x00000001, 0x805274C2) (Question - is there a place these are logged that I could view or send?) NEXT....after spending the entire day today looking at this as it continued to BS, I went into Safe Mode, defragged C:, ran chkdsk on C: & D:. I lost count of how many times it BS'd just as the machine are restarting and either never made it to Windows, or, BS'd only a minute or so afterwards. It BSoD'd a few more times, then came up and I could use it for ~30 minutes, it BSoD'd again with this: PFN_LIST_CORRUPT 0x0000004E (0x0000004E, 0x00000099, 0x0000000, 0x0000000) This happened only one time (knock on wood), the symptom was I lost the cursor and it did nothing for a long time, probably due to the full dump setting. One odd thing is that the Vaio logo started coming on before Windows started, I don't remember that ever happening. Your (patient) help would be very, very much appreciated such as the great assistance given to "shassouneh" on the "STOP errors maybe related to faulty cache memory? NEED HELP" thread by Alien, Davros, Ironwalk, Sampsom, Dirty Harry, and other generous folks.