I'm having this problem with this computer. When an application is running all of a sudden the computer crashes and reboots on its on. I held down the button for it to completely shut down. When I started the computer back up, it will boot up. Then it will go to the the screen that reads "start windows normally." I would press enter to start it normally. It will boot up all the way until it gets to the Windows XP loading screen then it will start all over again booting up. After several times of trying to get it to work, it will finally work for about a good 30 min. and it will begin to do the same thing all over again. I tried to boot it up using "Last Known Good Configuration" and it will hang at the Windows XP loading screen. I went into the event log and noticed that there were errors the errors that I seen were as follows: User: FPL-W0564\Administrator Computer: FPL-W0564 Description: DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer WHITEBOX using any of the configured protocols. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/even... Event Type: Error Event Source: nmserial Event Category: None Event ID: 18 Date: 11/24/2008 Time: 5:21:00 PM User: N/A Computer: FPL-W0564 Description: The description for Event ID ( 18 ) in Source ( nmserial ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: . Data: 0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 5a 00 ......Z. 0008: 00 00 00 00 12 00 06 c0 .......À 0010: 53 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 S....... 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ Event Type: Error Event Source: W32Time Event Category: None Event ID: 29 Date: 11/24/2008 Time: 4:04:14 PM User: N/A Computer: FPL-W0564 Description: The time provider NtpClient is configured to acquire time from one or more time sources, however none of the sources are currently accessible. No attempt to contact a source will be made for 14 minutes. NtpClient has no source of accurate time. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/even... Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7011 Date: 11/24/2008 Time: 4:03:26 PM User: N/A Computer: FPL-W0564 Description: Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the W32Time service. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/even... Event Type: Error Event Source: System Error Event Category: (102) Event ID: 1003 Date: 11/24/2008 Time: 3:55:10 PM User: N/A Computer: FPL-W0564 Description: Error code 1000007f, parameter1 00000008, parameter2 80042000, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 00000000. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/even... Data: 0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E 0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er 0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code 0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 37 1000007 0020: 66 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d f Param 0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 30 30 eters 00 0030: 30 30 30 30 30 38 2c 20 000008, 0038: 38 30 30 34 32 30 30 30 80042000 0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000 0048: 30 30 2c 20 30 30 30 30 00, 0000 0050: 30 30 30 30 0000 Can someone please help me to resolve this problem.

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Hi. I'm not an expert, but it sounds like you have some kind of virus or trojan. Can you boot up in Safe Mode? I would suggest running your AV program from there, and maybe it will be able to find it, since you can't get all the way up in windows. Another possibility would be to have it boot up in diagnostic mode, letting you see the files as they load. Then you might be able to find which one is hosing it up. I'm sure others will have better ideas. Good luck! Bob A positive attitude won't solve all your problems, but it will annoy just enough people to be worth the effort.