cannot start windows

I had been using my computer for an entire day and
decided to install SP2. I'm pretty sure I ran a Iolo
System Mechanic PC Maintenance
Wizard and an Ad-Aware
CE Scan some time before my restart. The only problem
with this wizard is that you have to restart for the
changes to take affect. When
I finally had SP2
loaded and the Wizard had been done for a while now, I
restarted my computer. I left my computer for about an
hour and came back and it
still had been restarting continuously for that whole
time I was gone.
When it restarts it goes through the boot process and
goes to the windows loading menu with the moving load
bar. It finishes that
and then comes to a black screen and exactly 10 seconds
later(timed) this
error message pops up with a blue screen of death for
exactly 1 second. I
couldn't even read it so I
had to take a digital camera and snap shot it the
instance it appeared. The error message said:
"STOP: c0000135 (Unable To Locate Component)
This application has failed to start because winsrv was
not found.
Re-installing
the application may fix this problem"
I can't even run safe mode to diagnose the problem. It
gave me the same error
message. Can someone help me out here? It would be good
if I didn't have to
reinstall windows, because that is just the easy way out.

Maybe it is an SP2
error with incompatablility with System Mechanic and Ad-
Aware CE???

I have the same problem and I don't use System Mecahanic and AdAware. Turn
off Automatic Restart to see the start up error message. The only solution I
have found so far is to uninstall the SP, which isn't a lot of help.

"steveo" wrote:

> I had been using my computer for an entire day and
> decided to install SP2. I'm pretty sure I ran a Iolo
> System Mechanic PC Maintenance
> Wizard and an Ad-Aware
> CE Scan some time before my restart. The only problem
> with this wizard is that you have to restart for the
> changes to take affect. When
> I finally had SP2
> loaded and the Wizard had been done for a while now, I
> restarted my computer. I left my computer for about an
> hour and came back and it
> still had been restarting continuously for that whole
> time I was gone.
> When it restarts it goes through the boot process and
> goes to the windows loading menu with the moving load
> bar. It finishes that
> and then comes to a black screen and exactly 10 seconds
> later(timed) this
> error message pops up with a blue screen of death for
> exactly 1 second. I
> couldn't even read it so I
> had to take a digital camera and snap shot it the
> instance it appeared. The error message said:
> "STOP: c0000135 (Unable To Locate Component)
> This application has failed to start because winsrv was
> not found.
> Re-installing
> the application may fix this problem"
> I can't even run safe mode to diagnose the problem. It
> gave me the same error
> message. Can someone help me out here? It would be good
> if I didn't have to
> reinstall windows, because that is just the easy way out.
>
> Maybe it is an SP2
> error with incompatablility with System Mechanic and Ad-
> Aware CE???
>
>

I also am seeing this after loading SP2. I was successful in loading it on 2
systems at work then decided that the security features would be good at home
also. I am running XP Pro on all systems, no XP Home. After the home system
got into the reboot loop, I used F8 to disable the automatic restart after
system errors and saw the message you describe in a blue screen. I was able
to start in recovery mode from the XP CD and get to a DOS prompt where I did
find winsrv.dll in C:\Windows\System32, but the date of the file (11/1/2002)
did not match the date of the same file on the systems at work (8/4/2004)
where SP2 loaded OK. I copied the newer file to a floppy and laid into the
system32 directory on the home system, but it did not change the behavior. I
eventually had to do a recovery from the base XP CD and then I was able to
get back on the system. I was then able to load SP1 successfully, but I am
hesitant to try the SP2 load again since it took about 3 hours to get the
system to come back up again.

"Darius" wrote:

> I have the same problem and I don't use System Mecahanic and AdAware. Turn
> off Automatic Restart to see the start up error message. The only solution I
> have found so far is to uninstall the SP, which isn't a lot of help.
>
> "steveo" wrote:
>
> > I had been using my computer for an entire day and
> > decided to install SP2. I'm pretty sure I ran a Iolo
> > System Mechanic PC Maintenance
> > Wizard and an Ad-Aware
> > CE Scan some time before my restart. The only problem
> > with this wizard is that you have to restart for the
> > changes to take affect. When
> > I finally had SP2
> > loaded and the Wizard had been done for a while now, I
> > restarted my computer. I left my computer for about an
> > hour and came back and it
> > still had been restarting continuously for that whole
> > time I was gone.
> > When it restarts it goes through the boot process and
> > goes to the windows loading menu with the moving load
> > bar. It finishes that
> > and then comes to a black screen and exactly 10 seconds
> > later(timed) this
> > error message pops up with a blue screen of death for
> > exactly 1 second. I
> > couldn't even read it so I
> > had to take a digital camera and snap shot it the
> > instance it appeared. The error message said:
> > "STOP: c0000135 (Unable To Locate Component)
> > This application has failed to start because winsrv was
> > not found.
> > Re-installing
> > the application may fix this problem"
> > I can't even run safe mode to diagnose the problem. It
> > gave me the same error
> > message. Can someone help me out here? It would be good
> > if I didn't have to
> > reinstall windows, because that is just the easy way out.
> >
> > Maybe it is an SP2
> > error with incompatablility with System Mechanic and Ad-
> > Aware CE???
> >
> >