I have XP Home Edition (factory installed) on a Dell 8200 system (512M RAM, Pentium 4). After I log out of my account, turn off pc, then power back up and click through to the log on screen, I get Microsoft Windows message - The system has recovered from a serious error. Please tell Microsoft about it, etc. After I get through this screen, the system seems to work fine. Also, when I run scandisk (at start-up), it runs through the chkdsk steps and then hangs when it says - chkdsk completed, your pc will now restart (or something like that). When I reboot, I get another "serious error" message. Any ideas what is going on? How to fix? Thanks.

Beats me. I'm having a similar problem with a machine at work. Froze up solid on me for no reason, forcing a hard reset. No errors the first time I rebooted, but everytime since then, I get that same message, even though there are no errors in the event log, no disk errors, and I've shut down cleanly each time...

kln3r, are you just logging off, or shutting down

paulxdg - Thanks for the response. I was logging off, then went to shut down. Since initial post of problem, I "re-added" my HP 932 printer and HP scanjet 5370C scanner via the Add Hardware menus in XP. (I probably didn't add my devices correctly). Observation: When I first added printer, I put my HP Printer CD (HP 932C) in CD drive and let auto-setup take over (and just followed on screen instructions). When I sent something to the printer, the printer immediatley took off and printed. When I shut down and turned PC back on, the "serious error message occured". (Maybe the way I initially installed the printer, conflicted with memory usage???) Today (18Nov01), I added the printer via the "Hardware Wizard", got the latest driver from HP website, and ran update. When I send print job to printer, it takes longer to spool, but I don't get the "Serious Error" message when I reboot PC. Also, I added my HP Scanjet 5370C scanner the same way - through the "Hardware Wizard". Scanner appears to function okay. My scanner is USB capable, but I have it connected to my printer via parallel cable. I don't have much experience with USB. For optimum performance, should I connect my scanner via USB as well as the printer? Thanks. kln3r

You are not alone. That last thing I remembered doing was installing a CDRW into my machnine. Everthing worked fine with the install and burning discs. However right after logging on, I would get that "recovered from a serious error" message. I diabled all startup options and removed the CDRW and everything but could not get rid of it. I ended up reinstalling XP on top of itself to reload all code and not delete my data. The problem has gone away, but I have never found what has caused this.

Still getting a "serious error" message after I click through account log in screen. Here is what is says: Error Signature BCCode: a BCP1: 00000004 BCP2: 00000002 BCP3: 00000000 BCP4: 804F1A9E OSVER: 5_1_2600 SP:0_0 Product: 768_1 Any ideas?

In my "cheap" M810LR motherboard, the only way to solve this problem was to update the BIOS. The message: "windows has recovered from a serious error" instantly disappear. Late, you should enable/disable some features in the setup utility (normally enable the newest). I hope this will be a solution for everyone, so I was working hard uninstalling software, disconnecting cables and devices, buying 80 pin cables, renewing drivers, editing the registry, chkdsk /r an so on, but only the bios update worked for me. Thanks for all your help. bcp171