BSOD on startup. (STOP: 0x00000024 (00x001902FE...))

[CheretteLealith]

Soo, Today when I started up my computer, I was greeted with a lovely surprise; A quick flash of a blue-screen, and my computer restarting almost as quickly as the BSOD appeared.

The first thing I did was let it restart again, thinking maybe the problem will magically fix itself long enough to fully start up. Alas, it did not. I then tried starting in safe mode, Which also caused my computer to reboot its self. I then tried getting into my system restore screen, thinking I could do a quick non-destructive restore to temporarily solve the problem. My computer also restarted as the was loading. I've tried booting from a disk to run Memtest, but my computer has apparent issues with that idea since it just tries to boot up from the hard drive like normal whenever I try too.

It was at the point that I became lost on what to do. Hence why I am here, making a post.

the full error from the BSOD is:
"STOP: 0x00000024 (0x001902FE, 0xBAD1707C, 0x8B0F3805)"

I'm running windows XP, Media Center Edition I think.
With 2 GB RAM.
Now quite sure how to check my PSU, but the power supply says 350 Watts, and "input(?) 115/230V~,8/4A,60/50Hz"
I'm afraid I don't have any more of my computer specs at this moment, I'm waiting for a friend of mine to give them to me. (He wanted to see my specs about a week ago, and he should still have them)

My computer worked about 30 minutes before this all happened. (I had turned it off to give it a little break while I showered) And before I had turned it off, it was running unusually slow, and I had just gotten done installing some freeware games. I haven't installed any new hardware lately.

I'm thinking it's either a virus or trojan from the installed software. :/

And now since I feel like I've pretty much written a novel, I think I'll stop typing.​

 

[Route44]

Reboot and access your BIOS. If it isn't already, set your DVD drive to first bootable and try running Memtest again with CD in system at the reboot.

 

[CheretteLealith]

It looks like my computer is already set to boot from DVD/CD first. But it still won't run Memtest. (May reburn a new disk and try that.)

I also tried booting into safe mode again, but had no success.

 

[Route44]

0x00000024: NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM
A problem occurred within NTFS.SYS, the driver file that allows the system to read and write to NTFS file system drives. There may be a physical problem with the disk, or an Interrupt Request Packet (IRP) may be corrupted. Other common causes include heavy hard drive fragmentation, heavy file I/O, problems with some types of drive-mirroring software, or some antivirus software.

Two possibilities come to mind qucikly:

1. Serious infection due to freeware games. You did not have this issue prior to these installs, correct?

2. There is a physical issue with the harddrive.

 

[CheretteLealith]

Everything was working fine until I had installed the games.

 

[Route44]

Everything was working fine until I had installed the games.

Then I believe #1 is more the likelihood. Where did you get these games from? Did you scan them before installing?

 

[CheretteLealith]

I don't remember where I got them on the internet, since the pages are bookmarked on the broken computer. But I did scan most of them before installed, and I had my firewall running when they were downloading and being installed as well. I think my firewall did at one point pop-up saying it had found something and I quarantined it right away.

 

[Route44]

Here is the thing about security software: You can have the best in the world but it can be overridden by us. I am thinking that through the downloading something infected your computer.

Do you have any friends or associates who have good tech experience?

 

[CheretteLealith]

Yeah, I have two relatives that both fix computers for a living. I can probably go to one of them.

 

[Route44]

Yeah, I have two relatives that both fix computers for a living. I can probably go to one of them.

The reason I ask is because often what you can do in these situations is to 'slave" a harddrive into another system and access the slaved harddrive via that system. Often you can run virus scans, retriev important information/files and burn to DVd or transfer to a flash drive, and do harddrive diagnostics.

Of course since they do it for a living they most likely have better tools, etc. to access the harddrive.