prior to the initial problem, i ran mcafee (nothing was found) and shut down
for the night. the next morning i rebooted and got my desktop - everything
seemed normal. i clicked onto a folder and accessed a word doc. when i went
to close it, everything froze - the doc, and visible desktop icons. i waited
for 10 min or so and decided to reboot. when the system restarted it got into
a reboot cycle. i tried to get into safe mode (as i mentioned) but the
rebooting cycle continued.. and here i am.
there was no updated drivers or new devices installed - no change in any
related settings. i will say that prior to this, i was not getting any audio,
but simply changed a setting in the sound and devices - and got my audio
back. this was after i ran the aforementioned apps and before i shut downfor
the evening.
any ideas?
~k
After you waited 10 minutes or so and rebooted your frozen system. how
did you reboot?
Power button? Pull the plug? Other?
Does the BSOD screen also say INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE?
The 0xC000034 is an indication of XP being unable to access the hard
disk or unable to find what it needs, but I'm imagine you will see
some responses with Google links pointing to the places to read about
the message but not how to fix it. Generally the readings will say:
The Stop 0x7B message indicates that Windows XP has lost access to the
system partition or boot volume during the startup process.
Most people don't care what it means, they just need to fix it!
If you still have it in some other system where you can scan the
afflicted drive with MBAM and SAS that will not hurt.
I would then move everything in the original hardware configuration
and fix it there.
Boot your afflicted system with Recovery Console using either a
genuine bootable XP installation CD or a bootable Recovery Console
CD. This is not the same as any system recovery CDs that may have
come with your system. If you do not have a genuine bootable XP
installation CD, create a Recovery Console CD.
You can create a bootable XP Recovery Console CD when no XP media is
available:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic276527.html
After you boot into the Recovery Console, for each of your hard disks,
you should then run:
chkdsk /r
For example, from the Recovery Console prompt, enter:
chkdsk c: /r
Let chkdsk finish and correct any problems it might find. It may take
a long time to complete or appear to be 'stuck'. Be patient. If the
HDD light is still flashing, it is doing something. Keep an eye on
the percentage amount to be sure it is still making progress.
Remove the CD and type 'exit' to leave the RC and restart the
computer.
Then we can continue.