Are you using partition magic or some other partition manager? Dual
booting with Linux? If not have you tried pressing F8 when booting and
choosing last good boot? You may have to repair your OS installation or
you may be having a boot disk sector failure.

Harold Bush
Chief Technologist
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-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James Murphy
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:27 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PCBUILD] PC disaster


Hello there,

Not sure if I am going about submitting a question in the right way, but
here goes.


My PC has broken down. Out of the blue it has decided to die on me with
the following symptoms:

After booting up fine, it tries to load up the O/S (XP) but then the
loading screen disappears, the tower emits a strange growling noise, a
blue screen of death flashes up momentarily, and then the thing reboots.
It does this in a continual loop. With some cunning use of a digital
camera, I managed to record what the BSOD says:

STOP: c000021a (Fatal System Error)
The Seesion Manager Initialization system process terminated
unexpectedly with a status of 0 x 000026c (0 x 00000000 0 x 00000000)
The system has been shut down.



I have no idea what any of this means, and whether it can be fixed or
how I might go about fixing it. I hope someone might be able to help me
in my time of need!

All the best,

Jim Murphy


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