Have you tried LastKnownGood? If that fails, can you actually press Ctrl-Alt-Del and get any response when it hangs?
On 23 July 2010 10:17, Miguel Gonzalez <miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm running out of ideas. I have a Windows XP SP3 machine that boots up > but you reach the point just before you get the explorer.exe logon welcome > window so I get the mouse pointer a complete blue screen but it goes no > further. > > If I try safe mode, it doesn't go further either (but you get a beautiful > black screen with the Safe mode text all around). > > Since i could access offline the event log files with a Windows live CD, I > saw an ID=20 error related to google update, I disabled that service but no > love. > > I have disabled some other services like SQL Server express, remove last > security updates and still nothing. > > Any ideas I can try? > > Miguel > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
