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 -- Brown Reference Group plc 8 Chapel Place, Rivington Street, London EC2A 3DQ Telephone: +44 (0)20 7920 7500 Fax: +44 (0)20 7920 7501 http://www.brownreference.com PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml