Hey guys,

Windows Vista won't start up anymore. Various problems occur during the start up that prevent it from starting up. It occurred around 3pm or 4pm today when i was just on the internet and talking with my friend on MSN and then BAM! BSOD! The PC rebooted itself and came back up, but then it began giving me a looping 'windows explorer.exe has stopped working' error. So I rebooted again.



I tried Last known good configuration and it didn't work. Gives me a flashing BSOD and the PC restarts itself. Attempts to boot into normal mode sometimes brings BSOD and sometimes just stays black before the circular Windows vista logo that should appear.

Safe mode works fine. I'm currently on safe mode at the moment. It works fine. I've tried Start Up repair using my Vista CD and nothing. It says no errors were found. I've tried Norton scan and nothing there.

Here are my specs:

OS: Vista Home Premium 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 2.8Ghz
RAM: 4GB (2x 2GB Sticks)
GPU: Nvidia GTX 260 896MB
DirectX: 10
HDD: 500GB Seagate 7200 RPM
Motherboard: GIGABYTE EP45-UD3R
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Sound: Onboard Realtek HD Sound

If you guys can get this fixed for me... that would be great... because I gotta print off a school project for tomorrow.

CT

go into c:\windows\minidump and zip the dump file *.dmp, and upload it to us using the attachment tool (shaped like a paperclip) in the reply form

thanks

Ken

I can't find minidump... It's not listed anywhere in my system root folder.

CT

if its not in minidump you can search for *.dmp. there may not be a dmp file.

ken

Sorry for the late reply Ken. Had some people over.

Earlier, I decided to uninstall a program called 'Daemon Tools'. Did that and Windows booted up fine! No problems at all. Worked on it for about two hours. Brother played a game on it and when I attempted to play a game afterwards, whatcha know... BSOD. Restarted windows and another BSOD...

Here are the minidumps for those two recent BSOD's.

I already ran Norton and MalwareBytes, and they found nothing. But i'll put them both to scan again.

I debugged the second dump, it says the faulty module is ntkrnlmp.exe which is invoked by dwm.exe

The first dump's faulty module is win32k.sys, which was invoked by csrss.exe, isn't that a server program? Not sure.

I have yet to search what that program is or why it caused the system to dump, just thought I'd throw that out there really fast.

I'm lost as to why those would cause a crash. I would do a system virus scan. Also, in the start search menu, type this: mrt.exe then hit enter, do a 'full' scan then let it run, it will take awhile...

Cheers! At least now i know the .exe version of the punk program, lol.

Edit: It looks to be located in system32.

Both .exe's are system programs...

Nothing you would've installed lol

[EDIT] I seen you figured that out