Re-booting on every start up!!

Hi there Geeks, I have had a good read at most of the posts on this great forum and found it to be one of the most helpful and useful one of its kind. Good work!

And now to my problem.

Everytime i start up my pc it gets to the select account page and i continue to enter password. Its when i hit continue that it loads for a second and then re-boots!

So i took out the other (kids) account and thought that if it loads straight to the desktop then the problem would go, but nope! Evertime i start up it shows desktop for a couple secs then reboots. Sometimes it takes around 8 reboots before it works. On the other hand it doesnt happen sometimes(very, very rarely).

I have done checks using AVG, Spybot, Ad-Adaware, Registry Cleanup and checked my start up menu for anything suspicious but nothing.

Does anyone recognise this problem or know of a way to fix it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Ok i got the BSOD error reading technical info.

*** STOP: OXOOOOOO8E (OXCOOOO1D, OXF85EOEED, OXF8DOCC2C, OXOOOOOOOO)

***cmuda.sys - Address F85EOEED base at F8542000, DateStamp 43a1O5d7

That is the technical info if that helps. I hope you didnt want the whole message because that would be a bit of a pain considering it is a very lot of pencil to paper lol.

I dont have my own xp cd i'm afraid but shall have one soon.

Windows XP Pro
Version 2002
Service Pack 2

AMD Athlon
858MHz, 576MB of RAM

Hope that helps.

 

cmuda.sys is for your C-Media sound card/chip.

Try unchecking it from startup (Start, run and type in msconfig then Startup tab).

 

I checked the startup and the cmud.sys is not there. Although i did notice that there was ctfmon.exe and that is trojan i'm sure so i unchecked it.

The only ones in the start up are Gear311T which is my wireless network card i pressume, and there is AVG, zlclient(zonealarm) and dumprep which i think is something to do with memory dumps.

I do have C-Media Audio drivers installed. It is in my add/remove prog's page.

 

ctfmon.exe is typically part of Microsoft OFFICE: link: http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/ctfmon/

Try uninstalling your c-media drivers, then obtain new ones from their website.

 

You can try uninstalling C-Media from Add/Remove, then installing the latest drivers again.

I'd also check Device Manager for any errors.

And as theefool stated, ctfmon.exe isn't a trojan. It's not vital to leave at Startup, but it's not the culprit either.