WinXP BSOD

[blair41]

All of a sudden I'm having major BSOD problems with one of my systems. I've not changed any hardware nor added any software in the past three weeks, everything has been running smoothly.

This morning I rebooted after running an antivirus program which caught a bunch of stuff (my kids had been using this particular PC) and then BSOD. I've been trying various things for the past 6 hours and am no further ahead.

I have noticed that during the boot sequence getting to the Windows screen the monitor seems to lose the video connection and then re-establishes and runs fine until the BSOD appears. The PC runs absolutely fine in safe mode except I'm unable to install new video drivers in this mode... perhaps this is normal.

Any suggestions welcome.........

[Rudegar]

easy way is just to reinstall xp on top of the old one without formatting then you dont loose any data
sure you may have to reinstall some programs for their regkeys to work correct in regeditry but not too much hassel

[blair41]

Thanks I'll try that and let you know.........

[blair41]

OK here we go...... Reinstalled WinXP to another drive, loaded the drivers and utilities and everything ran great for about 4 hours, then it started to randomly reboot.

When rebooting it's taking minutes to get the final screen and then something called Data Execution Prevention - Microsoft Windows begins to close down Windows Explorer, Dr. Watson, and other programs and asks if I want to report the problem to Microsoft. Then my various apps start to boot and after about 5 minutes of this happening..... the system restarts again and the same bloody thing begins again....

Also for some reason I get a file opening when the reboot begins to start the called apps C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Start Menu....... sometimes the system freezes for a couple of minutes and then reboots..... ti's drive me crazy.

I've been in Safe Mode a few times trying to figure things out but I'm getting so frustrated I don't what to do or where to look anymore.

Help Welcome!!!!!!!