Sudden BSOD on startup - Windows XP

[slipd]

Hey guys,

I've been looking a mates machine tonight that does the following:

posts fine, loads the windows splash screen etc. but bsod's when the mouse cursor has loaded and windows is about to load... the machine briefly displays a bsod and then reboots - this cycle is endless

Any ideas? At first I thought it might be memory but I've swapped the sticks out and the problem remains.

Help!

 

[slipd]

Nope. Tried getting into safe mode, have the same problem

Currently testing the hard drive with wd's data lifeguard tool...

 

[slipd]

Did the thorough test and it found nothing...

I disabled the automatic restart and it turns out the bsod error is a "STOP Error 0x00000050: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA"

Ideas? I'm going to bed now but I'm running memest on the original memory to see if that throws up anything? If it doesn't, I'm right out of ideas

 

[slipd]

Chkdsk the drive, get an red type boot disk and system restore

I've done a chkdsk /r from the recovery console and that didn't do anything? Could it be a display driver issue - although if it was it would let me get into safe mode wouldn't it?

What's a red type boot disk?

Thanks for the suggestions guys

 

[slipd]

Still having problems guys...

I tried restoring a previous registry in ubcd4win but still get the same issue

Also tried fixboot/fixmbr. Is bootcfg /rebuild worth a shot?