In safemode run msconfig.exe and switch to its BOOT.INI tab
and put a check in the /BOOTLOG option.
I don't know where the file will be saved to, but it should be named
bootlog.txt



"harry" <spam@spam.spam> wrote in message
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> Something strange just happened to my XP...
>
> At one point, I noticed strange changes in font sizes and some of the
> graphical elements of the GUI (such as the "X" to close windows)
> disappeared (I have various up to date spyware/virii scanners). I
> thought an application caused this, so I wanted to close it from the
> task manager... but pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del did not bring it up; instead,
> a color window with various options ("Logged in as... bla bla bla")
> appeared; there was an option to start Task manager, but when I tried,
> the system informed me that taskmgr.exe "could not be properly
> initialized".
>
> I shut down and restarted... and now there is a blue screen every time
> and the system freezes then. It's shortly after the XP logo with the
> animation at the bottom.
>
> The blue screen has the general "there was an error, bla bla bla"
> message, with the only informative portion being:
>
> "STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0xF8448174, 0xF7C89D44, 0xF7C89A40)"
>
> I found no reference to an error with those addresses online...
>
> I can boot into safe mode. (This is where I am now, in fact) I ran
> the repairing procedure from XP's install CD; it changed nothing.
>
> Any solutions out there?
>
> Additionally (or alternatively...), is there any way I could pause the
> booting procedure and check what is loaded, step by step? See the name
> of every driver, DLL, executable, font, anything being loaded, to
> pinpoint the possible culprit that got loaded just before the crash?
> (The way one could do in DOS and older Windows...)