Solved Power outage during computer wake-up stops 32-bit processes from running

Hello,

Recently, while taking my Vista x64 Ultimate computer out of sleep mode, a power outage occurred. When I turned my computer back on, no 32 bit applications run - not even the operating system's own services such as Windows Installer will run if they are 32-bit.

I tried typing 'firefox' in the Task Manager to see what happened. The process appeared for a moment, then was instantly killed. I don't know why. The Windows event log has been unhelpful in diagnosing the problem.

I also looked at Task manager at startup, and saw that all the * 32 processes were dying moments after Vista boots and show the desktop.

I have tried system restore, nothing worked. I tried to auto-repair my system in the windows recovery console, that didn't work either. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem short of simply reinstalling the OS, which I am reticent to do? If so, what should I do?

Before the outage, this problem had not occurred.

My hardware:

Core 2 Quad
250GB HDD
9600GT Video
780i SLI mobo
DVD drive
4GB RAM


Thanks,

MJAZ

Power outage when the disc is spinning usually means PC death, so you're lucky you managed to get it to boot at all.

I'd reinstall no matter what.

Actually, I fixed it. COMODO firewall had installed some kind of unsigned driver which killed my system. I uninstalled COMODO, and everything is fine.

Thanks for your help.