I'm a brand new user so my sincere apologies if this does not fall under the right forum topic...
Anywho, my laptop recently has been a bit fickle on the startup. One day it froze up and i had to shut it down by letting the battery run out. Upon restarting, the XP loading screen sat for a good 5 minutes with no desktop loading. After the XP loading screen disappeared, a black screen appeared with an error message that read:
"Services.exe - Application Error
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc015000f). Press OK to terminate the application."
Once I clicked OK, another error message appeared reading:
"Lsass.exe - Application Error
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc015000f). Press OK to terminate the application."
Upon clicking OK again, the 1st error message reappeared, and after clicking OK yet again the 2nd error message reappeared. After the 4th error message the screen just goes black. I still have a mouse icon, my computer still connects to my wireless network (i assume as the wireless network light is lit), but it is just a black screen. Nothing affects the screen either, ctrl-alt-delete does nothing and (in an unrelated problem i think) my power button no longer works, so it is impossible to force shut down as well. The only way to power on my computer is by pressing one of the "quickplay" buttons (the laptop is a HP Pavilion 5150 I believe). I booted the computer from my Windows XP disc and went through the steps to repair XP, but to no avail, the problem still persists.
So in short, I have no idea where to go from here. Any help would be fantastically appreciated. Thank you in advance
Anywho, my laptop recently has been a bit fickle on the startup. One day it froze up and i had to shut it down by letting the battery run out. Upon restarting, the XP loading screen sat for a good 5 minutes with no desktop loading. After the XP loading screen disappeared, a black screen appeared with an error message that read:
"Services.exe - Application Error
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc015000f). Press OK to terminate the application."
Once I clicked OK, another error message appeared reading:
"Lsass.exe - Application Error
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc015000f). Press OK to terminate the application."
Upon clicking OK again, the 1st error message reappeared, and after clicking OK yet again the 2nd error message reappeared. After the 4th error message the screen just goes black. I still have a mouse icon, my computer still connects to my wireless network (i assume as the wireless network light is lit), but it is just a black screen. Nothing affects the screen either, ctrl-alt-delete does nothing and (in an unrelated problem i think) my power button no longer works, so it is impossible to force shut down as well. The only way to power on my computer is by pressing one of the "quickplay" buttons (the laptop is a HP Pavilion 5150 I believe). I booted the computer from my Windows XP disc and went through the steps to repair XP, but to no avail, the problem still persists.
So in short, I have no idea where to go from here. Any help would be fantastically appreciated. Thank you in advance