BSOD Before Login Screen on Windows XP Startup

[NathanM]

Hello. My laptop has been acting perfectly fine until I decided to install IE7 on it. I downloaded it straight from Microsoft's website and installed. When prompted to restart, I said no, exited some programs, then manually restarted. I then left the computer to restart and went away for a few minutes. When I got back, it was stuck on a BSOD. It reads:

STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error}
The Windows Logon Process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of
0xc0000020 (0x00000000 0x00000000).
The system has been shut down.

I have not been able to bypass this. I've tried safe mode and loading my last good configuration, but I hit the same BSOD right before it would normally show my login screen. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this? I'm quite pissed that only Microsoft's programs are the ones to destroy my operating system.

I'm on Windows XP Home SP2. Thanks for any help.

 

[SkullE]

This just happened to me this week. My power supply was dying.

Got a new one at the store and all is ok now.