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lsass.exe - System Error when booting Windows XP Home

Asked by: ewhitaker

I just built an AMD Athlon XP system with an Asus A7V8X-MX SE mother board, an 80GB drive and 512 DDR.  Windows XP Home installed but I get the following error each time the computer boots.

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lsass.exe - System Error
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An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably.  The Registry could not read in, or write out,  or flush, one of the files that contain the system's image of the Registry.

                                                     [  OK  ]
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The computer makes it through POST without problems.  Windows XP Home splash screen comes on and goes away and this error pops up when you would normally expect the welcome screen or logon prompt.

I have done error-checking on the disk, System Restore, and I just tried a repartion/reformat/reinstall and the error came back.

If I don't award any points it's because I jumped out of my window.

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2004-05-11 at 13:16:15ID20985875
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Answers

 

by: Eagle6990Posted on 2004-05-11 at 13:23:35ID: 11044341

Have you run HD diagnostics yet?  Memory diag?: www.memtest86.com

Are you connected to the internet? If so try disconnecting from the internet and installing.

 

by: CaycePosted on 2004-05-11 at 15:22:52ID: 11045230

Are you doing all this connected to the network?
It could be a worm or virus propagating in the network, try working disconnected from the network, then repartition/reformat/resinstall to see if it stops.

If it repeats and you're not networked then it MUST be a hardware error. As simple as a BIOS setting or as complicated as a faulty MB, and anything in between.

 

by: briancassinPosted on 2004-05-11 at 16:07:54ID: 11045464

IS the system connected to the internet if so remove it from the internet connection could be sasser doing it.

 

by: ewhitakerPosted on 2004-05-11 at 17:00:24ID: 11045701

You know I think the network cable was in when I did the reinstall.  I will try your suggestions first thing tomorrow morning and let you know.

 

by: briancassinPosted on 2004-05-11 at 19:33:18ID: 11046332

see here this is regarding sasser which is causing problems with lsass.exe

unplug the system from the network and see if it can then boot up.... if not try safe mode,

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser.asp

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sasser.removal.tool.html

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_SASSER.A

Security Patch in response to this vulnerability:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-011.mspx

 

by: briancassinPosted on 2004-05-11 at 19:37:48ID: 11046353

If the above does not resolve it how are you partioning with a 3rd party tool or fdisk ?

If you were having previous problems with the O.S. wiped the drive and then tried a reload and it is still giving a problem it may be possible the MBR is causing part of the problem if you have no choice but a reload, reload it unconnected to a network fdisk /MBR the drive do this command several times and then format the drive as fat32 or what not using a standard windows 98se bootdisk which is available here http://www.bootdisk.com

 

by: briancassinPosted on 2004-05-11 at 19:38:20ID: 11046357

then reload the system (sorry accidentally hit the enter key before I was done typing.

 

by: ewhitakerPosted on 2004-05-12 at 08:06:19ID: 11050783

Well, Memtest86 gave me the thumbs up.  I did the fdisk /mbr, deleted the partition, created a new one and currently am in the process of formating the new partition in NTFS.  The system is unpluged from the network.  Before I put it back on the network I think I will load the security update briancassin listed above and maybe ZoneAlarm too.  I'll let you guys know in an hour or so if this works.

 

by: ewhitakerPosted on 2004-05-12 at 12:58:25ID: 11053365

That seemed to do the trick.  At first the last part of the windows setup keeping appearing again after each reboot but after a windows update it stoped.  All is right with the world again.  Thanks for all of your help.

 

by: briancassinPosted on 2004-05-12 at 22:46:54ID: 11056448

Thank You, glad I could help :)

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