XP home Freezes on boot ond randomly

[coreservers]

I'm running XP home on my system, which is a 1gb P3, 192mb ram, I have 2 hard drives 1 of 10gb and 1 of 40gb
My C drive is 3gb with partitions of 7gb and 40gb
Recently When switched on from cold the pc stopped no errors at all.
I punched reset and in booted, checked event viewer, no errors at all.
Now it freezes randomly and the only way to release is to press reset.
if I boot from cold it can take 3 attempts to get it to boot, but even then it still freezes for no apparent reason. It does seem to try to update escd on some occasions. on a succesful reboot it does try to checkdisk d: which is the 40gb partition, but doesn't find any errors.
My graphics card is a 32mb geforce2 gts, I've got the latest drivers from nvidia, and it's been scanned for blaster and welchia.

hellllpppppp. I'm going up the wall.

[Ian]

If it also freezes ramdomly when actually in windows then its probably a dodgy memory chip, otherwise try turning on boot logging and see at what point the boot process freezes.

at the boot menu press F8 for advanced options and choose "enable boot logging" this will create a file called ntbtlog.txt in your %systemroot% folder (eg c:\windows c:\winnt, etc)

it will contain a load of info like

 Service Pack 1 9 23 2003 19:40:05.500
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\hal.dll
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\KDCOM.DLL
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\system32\BOOTVID.dll
Loaded driver ACPI.sys
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\WMILIB.SYS
Loaded driver pci.sys
Loaded driver isapnp.sys
Loaded driver intelide.sys
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\PCIIDEX.SYS
Loaded driver MountMgr.sys
Loaded driver ftdisk.sys
Loaded driver dmload.sys
Loaded driver dmio.sys
Loaded driver PartMgr.sys
Loaded driver VolSnap.sys
Loaded driver atapi.sys
Loaded driver disk.sys
Loaded driver \WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\CLASSPNP.SYS
Loaded driver KSecDD.sys
Loaded driver Ntfs.sys
Loaded driver NDIS.sys
Loaded driver Mup.sys
Loaded driver agp440.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\p3.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\nv4_mini.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\hercspud.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\e100b325.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\BT848.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\fdc.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Serial.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\irsir.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\irenum.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\i8042prt.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\kbdclass.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\imapi.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\cdrom.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\redbook.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\usbuhci.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\audstub.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\rasirda.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\rasl2tp.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\ndistapi.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\ndiswan.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\raspppoe.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\raspptp.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\ptilink.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\raspti.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\rdpdr.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\termdd.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\mouclass.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\swenum.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\update.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\vmnetadapter.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\usbhub.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\hercwdm.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\gameenum.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\flpydisk.sys
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\lbrtfdc.SYS
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Sfloppy.SYS
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\i2omgmt.SYS
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Changer.SYS
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Cdaudio.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Fs_Rec.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Null.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Beep.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\vga.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\mnmdd.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\RDPCDD.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Msfs.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Npfs.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\rasacd.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\msgpc.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\ipsec.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\tcpip.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\netbt.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\netbios.sys
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\PCIDump.SYS
Loaded driver \??\D:\Program Files\TGTSoft\StyleXP\StyleXPHelper.exe
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\mrxsmb.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Fips.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\wanarp.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Fastfat.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\hidusb.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\mouhid.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Cdfs.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\irda.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\vmnetbridge.sys
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\afd.sys
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\rdbss.sys
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\mrxsmb.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\wdmaud.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\sysaudio.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\splitter.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\aec.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\swmidi.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\DMusic.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\kmixer.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\drmkaud.sys
Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\Parport.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\hcmon.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\vmx86.SYS
Loaded driver \??\D:\Program Files\Symantec_Client_Security\Symantec AntiVirus\NAVAPEL.SYS
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\srv.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\vmnetuserif.sys
Loaded driver \??\D:\Program Files\Symantec\SYMEVENT.SYS
Loaded driver \??\D:\PROGRA~1\SYMANT~1\SYMANT~1\NAVAP.sys
Loaded driver \??\D:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\SYMANT~1\VIRUSD~1\20030918.007\NAVEX15.sys
Loaded driver \??\D:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\SYMANT~1\VIRUSD~1\20030918.007\NAVENG.sys
Loaded driver \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\kmixer.sys