XP Home Windows Startup Problem

Since I installed Norton System Works 03 and Go Back that accompanied it, am having a problem with Win Startup. At start I always get a blue window that indicates "A problem has been detected............." with the final line something like, "If this is the first time, restart and......." Restarting won't solve the problem. It lists the Error Codes as: Stop: 0x 0000000A, (0x 000000166, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x804FDFBC).

The System Works seems to be working well as does Go Back. I've found that if I select a go back point while it is trying to load, it gets past the blue screen followed by a screen asking if I want to start in a Normal Moad, giving options to select others.

I select the Normal Start Up and all is well. When I have to restart for some reason during the day this condition does not happen, but only after I turn the PC off at night and restart in the mornings.

Will someone offer me a hint as to a cure? I can live with this but rather not unless I have to.

 

Hope you have a big bottle of aspirin if you plan to use Norton products (many will disagree).

A Stop 0A message generally indicates that a device driver is trying to access an IRQ higher than its own. It is usually a driver problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314063

Possibly one of your go-back or restore points rolled the system back to when you had an incompatible driver.

Get into Windows and see what drivers you can update, especially video and network cards. Then set a go-back and restore point with the newer drivers.

 

Abraxas

Thanks. I've disabled Go Back, turned the machine off, let set about 15 minutes, back on and it started fine. That may not be the same as turning it off for a longer period but will see tonight as I intend to disable Go Back before I retire for the night. Then in the morning if it starts without the errors guess I have found the problem.

Stay warm up there!

 

If you figure out what is causing it, just uninstall it to see if that solves the problem. Go Back seems to be popular in this group, so maybe some of the user-gurus can figure this out.

Go Back and System Restore are great for undoing many sins, but ghosting your drive to rewritable CD's or even a repair installation can be even more reliable.

(I'll stay warm today. My car doors were frozen shut from the rain that froze, so I need to stay in the house.)

 

Abraxas

I do believe Go Back is the Rascal.

I wish I knew the proper procedure to "Ghost" as you say. Some Beginners can figure things like this out in a puff. Still, some of us are much slower. I don't know what to copy and what not to. I think I should wait until cotton pickin time and make a few dollars to buy a Backup Program. Have the CDRW and disk. The knowledge is missing.

If it starts in the morning with Go Back disabled, I'll know the trouble and rid myself of it.

Set your doors on fire. That will melt the ice!

 

The Backup in System Tools works pretty well.

DriveImage is my favorite. Make an image on CD's, and even if your hard drive fails, the image restores everything just as it was to the new hard drive.
http://www.powerquest.com/driveimage/

It's even not too expensive some places:
http://www.smartsoftwareshopper.com/prod/drive-image-2002.htm

(Funny you'd mention fire. I was thinking that hopefully, some of those days when my house doors are frozen, too, that the fire would at least thaw them so I could escape .)

 

Abraxas

OK My Yankee Friend. I just ordered the program from your recommended link. If it is over and above me, I'm going to Hex every Cloud that comes by and give you six more weeks of Winter!

 

I'm not sure I'd notice a mere six-week difference, but hex away!

Considering how you ultimately solved the ftp problem, I have complete faith in your competence.

Making those periodic backups on rewritable CD is like insurance. No one wants it, it's a pain to deal with, they may never use it and may just as well have flushed good money down the toilet, but if they ever need it, well, you know.....

Good luck.