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02-Jul-2009, 10:37 PM #1
Exclamation Solved: Blue Screen on login
Every time I log in, it begins logging in for a few seconds, but before I reach the desktop I get the following error message on a blue screen:
stop: 0x0000008E (0xc0000005, 0x893C78EC, 0XB840B970, 0x00000000)
I can start up in safe mode, however (which is what I am posting this in right now). I recently updated my video drivers, but I am still getting the error even after I tried updating again. I began getting a blue screen before this, but it only happened when I scanned using spybot search & destroy. I ran in safe mode and completed a spybot scan and deleted the following things:

Win32.Zbot
C:windows\system32\sdra64.exe
C:windows\system32\lowsec\
Win32.Bredolab.B
C:Windows\system32\drivers\str.sys
After that restart, I started having blue screens on login.
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02-Jul-2009, 11:54 PM #2
What version of windows? based on the error, windows NT right? 2000, xp, vista
Have you done a system restore? if it started happening after the driver update, than do a system restore to a point before you installed the driver.
BTW windows 2000 does not have system restore, so if you are using 2000 you will need to just plain uninstall the driver, from safemode.
win xp: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...emrestore.mspx
windows vista: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...e79e51033.mspx
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03-Jul-2009, 03:31 AM #3
I have Windows XP service pack 3. Ill try system restore and see what happens.
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03-Jul-2009, 03:52 AM #4
I tried 4 different restore points and they all responded with:
Restoration incomplete
your computer could not be restored to [the date I chose]
no changes have been made
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04-Jul-2009, 02:24 PM #5
you successfully boot into safemode correct? uninstall the driver completely from safemode, and anything else that you installed at the same time. I don;t know why system restore isn't working though.
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04-Jul-2009, 02:40 PM #6
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Originally Posted by darthrevan945 View Post
you successfully boot into safemode correct? uninstall the driver completely from safemode, and anything else that you installed at the same time. I don;t know why system restore isn't working though.
Maybe the viruses messed up with the op's restore points. That is a basic virus behaviour to avoid being cleaned when using system restore.

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05-Jul-2009, 01:23 AM #7
oh ya lol, I didn't think about viruses. Ive been using linux and mac os x for awhile and viruses completely escaped my mind.
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05-Jul-2009, 04:38 PM #8
Im not sure what was causing the problem, but I fixed it. I got frustrated and just reformatted my hard drive. So yeah, problem solved.
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