Windows XP Home not starting

[bcrew1375]

I just turned off my computer after about 4 days, and now Windows XP Home ceases to start. Everything goes fine until after the XP loading screen. When the screen goes pitch black, it gives me a BSOD, which stays on the screen for a split second not giving me anytime to read it, and then reboots. It says something about Windows encountering a problem. I can start fine in Safe Mode(In fact, that is how I'm typing this post.) I've tried restoring the registry from a backup with no change. I looked through Device Manager in Safe Mode and noticed there's a problem with "Microsoft composite battery." Is that normal? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[shinmajin]

hmm this is a long shot and i'd guess you would have tried it already, but sometimes it works, go in to recovery console and try to use chkdsk. That and it sounds to me like you have a driver problem or a virus. Were thare any drivers you updated right before you have this problem?

[bcrew1375]

Well, I solved the problem a few days ago. Turns out it was all caused by a blasted video driver. Now, a new problem has shown its ugly face. For some reason Windows XP hates my CD drive now. It keeps telling me it can't load the device drivers. I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling the CD drivers, using new CD drivers, and even reinstalling Windows XP! I know the CD drive is okay, considering I can boot from CDs just fine. I've tried everything I can imagine to get this sucker working. As always, any help is appreciated.

BTW, if it helps any, I also can't get SCSI drivers to work.

[Player-X]

I guess using the WinXP CD to reinstall the drivers won't work
Uninstall the drivers and go download the drivers from the manufacturers of your CD drive

[bcrew1375]

It's a generic notebook CD Drive. It's called a "QSI CDRW/DVD SBW-241." I looked for drivers, but came up with nothing. I'm thinking it could possibly be a virus. Has anyone ever heard of a virus screwing with a CD-Drive, particularly, the recording functions?

[mhaqsb1]

Yes, it happened with a friend of mine. You have some virus activity in your computer, most probably in the system memory. You must run a Virus scan ,by booting from Norton or any other program.

The CD Drive not accepting CD's, windows keep rejecting the drive access, such activity has happened to me as well, until I upgraded my WinXP to SP3.

Windows sucks anyways, there is always something weird going on with it.

[bcrew1375]

Sweetness! Problem solved! It wasn't a virus, it wasn't the drivers, it wasn't the CD Drive. It was the blasted registry -_-. I found some info on a problem very similar to mine on another forum that told about two registry keys that would cause this very problem. If anyone is interested or happens to have this problem theirself, here are the keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Delete UpperFilter and LowerFilter. After that, everything should work out smoothly.

Thanks for the advice, guys. Boy, am I glad this stuff is over. Now I can back to my "normal" Windows usage .

[RZetlin]

Originally Posted by bcrew1375

Sweetness! Problem solved! It wasn't a virus, it wasn't the drivers, it wasn't the CD Drive. It was the blasted registry -_-. I found some info on a problem very similar to mine on another forum that told about two registry keys that would cause this very problem. If anyone is interested or happens to have this problem theirself, here are the keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Delete UpperFilter and LowerFilter. After that, everything should work out smoothly.

Thanks for the advice, guys. Boy, am I glad this stuff is over. Now I can back to my "normal" Windows usage .

How did you get your registry messed up in the first place?

[Kirby]

Originally Posted by RZetlin

How did you get your registry messed up in the first place?

sometimes you don't have to do anything to corrupt your registry. Run SpyBot's TeaTimer and you'll understand

[bcrew1375]

According to the post I read, programs that are uninstalled do not always remove their registry entries correctly. I uninstalled a program dealing with the CD drive recently, and it apparently did just that.