Yet another boot problem

Please help?!?!
Windows XP Pro SP3 - Windows will display the splash screen at startup but
will not boot to the logon screen. All I get is a blank screen. I have to
do a reset or hard boot where I can boot up in safe mode with networking. I
found numerous items in the event viewer. In fact I am in safe mode now.
It appears that DCOM may be the main cause, but I don't know.

Some of the items are as follows:

DCOM got error "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode " attempting to
start the service wuauserv with arguments "" in order to run the server:

{E60687F7-01A1-40AA-86AC-DB1CBF673334}

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:

Fips

intelppm

The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal
processing. HRESULT was 8007043C from line 44 of
d:\comxp_sp3\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact
Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.

Faulting application iexplore.exe, version 7.0.6000.16827, faulting module
mshtml.dll, version 7.0.6000.16825, fault address 0x001e1e4f.

Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x8007043C

Fault bucket 1203548446.

Hanging application iexplore.exe, version 7.0.6000.16827, hang module
hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000.

"Tom C" wrote in

> Please help?!?!
> Windows XP Pro SP3 - Windows will display the splash screen at
> startup but will not boot to the logon screen. All I get is a
> blank screen. I have to do a reset or hard boot where I can boot
> up in safe mode with networking. I found numerous items in the
> event viewer. In fact I am in safe mode now. It appears that DCOM
> may be the main cause, but I don't know.
>
> Some of the items are as follows:
>
> DCOM got error "This service cannot be started in Safe Mode "
> attempting to start the service wuauserv with arguments "" in
> order to run the server:
>
> {E60687F7-01A1-40AA-86AC-DB1CBF673334}
>
> The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
>
> Fips
>
> intelppm
>
> The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its
> internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043C from line 44 of
> d:\comxp_sp3\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please
> contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.
>
> Faulting application iexplore.exe, version 7.0.6000.16827,
> faulting module mshtml.dll, version 7.0.6000.16825, fault address
> 0x001e1e4f.
>
> Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x8007043C
>
> Fault bucket 1203548446.
>
> Hanging application iexplore.exe, version 7.0.6000.16827, hang
> module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000.
>
>
>

Since you can start in Safe mode, you might want to use "msconfig" to
help narrow down what might be causing your problems...

"How to troubleshoot configuration errors by using the System
Configuration utility in Windows XP"
<[URL="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310560"]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310560[/URL]>

HTH,
John