Can you post more of that boot log here? I'm not entirely sure that failure to initialise afd.sys is by itself causing your cant-boot-from-cold symptom. That might be more of a side effect.
Also, are there any warnings or errors in the system event log during one of these problem boots? (Run eventvwr afterwards to check based on timestamps.)
Here are more from my boot log:
Multiple instances of:
Did not load driver @nettun.inf,%isatap.displayname%;Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Did not load driver @nettun.inf,%isatap.displayname%;Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Did not load driver @nettun.inf,%tunmp.displayname%;Microsoft Tun Miniport Adapter
Did not load driver @hal.inf,%acpiapic.devicedesc%;ACPI x86-based PC
Did not load driver @netrasa.inf,%mp-l2tp-dispname%;WAN Miniport (L2TP)
Did not load driver @netrasa.inf,%mp-bh-dispname%;WAN Miniport (Network Monitor)
Did not load driver @netrasa.inf,%mp-ip-dispname%;WAN Miniport (IP)
Did not load driver @netrasa.inf,%mp-ipv6-dispname%;WAN Miniport (IPv6)
Did not load driver @netrasa.inf,%mp-pppoe-dispname%;WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
Did not load driver @netrasa.inf,%mp-pptp-dispname%;WAN Miniport (PPTP)
Did not load driver @netsstpa.inf,%mp-sstp-dispname%;WAN Miniport (SSTP)
Multiple instances of :
Did not load driver ASUS EAH4870 series
Did not load driver ATITool Driver
Multiple instances of :
Did not load driver @oem32.inf,%rtl8168c.devicedesc%;Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)
Multiple instances of:
Did not load driver @cpu.inf,%intelppm.devicedesc%;Intel Processor
Did not load driver @cpu.inf,%intelppm.devicedesc%;Intel Processor
Once into Event Viewer, the timestamps of the warnings coincide with my unsuccessful
attempts and direct booting.
This message is repeated multiple times.
Level : Warning
Source: Winlogon
Event ID: 6000
Task Category:None
When I went to event properties this is what it said:
- System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon
[ Guid] {DBE9B383-7CF3-4331-91CC-A3CB16A3B538}
[ EventSourceName] Wlclntfy
- EventID 6000
[ Qualifiers] 32768
Version 0
Level 3
Task 0
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2009-03-14T06:36:32.000Z
EventRecordID 15653
Correlation
- Execution
[ ProcessID] 0
[ ThreadID] 0
Channel Application
Computer PokerKing
Security
- EventData
GPClient
D9060000
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Binary data:
In Words
0000: 000006D9
In Bytes
0000: D9 06 00 00 Ù...