Computer in a death loop.

I have a Toshiba laptop M45-S269. It is running windows XP with service pack 3. The first hint of trouble occured when I could not properly link to google search results. During my next session my computer began to not boot properly. I was able to hold my f8 key and remove auto boot on a failed system boot.

The blue screen that is displayed states (paraphrased) :
Page_fault_in_nonpaged_area.
Restart in safe mode.

Technical informaton:
***Stop: 0x00000050 (0x80097004,0x00000001, 0x80515103,0x00000000)

When I attempt to then boot in the safe mode the system goes back to the death loop.

I'm really not sure what to do now. Suggestions?

 

I don't get an opportunity to work on the computer issue often... but was able to impliment the steps you provided today and have been successful in getting out of the death loop. Thank you. I now have to finish reading and see how to prevent this update from kicking my @55 again.

 

You might be interested in this. It's not free, it's not even that cheap in fact, but its ability to fully restore a system to a previous state in seconds has to be seen to be believed. It's what Windows System Restore should have been.

I've been using it for about three months now and have come to rely on it completely, though I still image my system about once a month in case there's a hardware failure.

 

@Earthling,

Not trying to hijack the thread, but have a question about the app in your link. Does it have features to keep malware from infecting the snap shots/restore points? Only asking out of curiosity!

 

There aren't any restore points in the usual sense so there aren't any files that can become infected. As far as I can make out it uses the same approach as that used by Vista's and Win 7's Volume Shadow Copy service, which enables previous versions of files to be recovered even though there is no direct reference to them anywhere in the file management system. It's not using the VSC service though because it even works in XP and previous which did not have VSC.

It helps to read the entire notes in the link I gave, or even better take advantage of the free fully functional trial. It is many years since I came across software that really does seem like a breakthrough, but this does.