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computer boots up normally then once windows is just starting to run it displays "can't load vsmpsgty.dll" and then reboots. it won't stay on long enough to do anything to or really read anything other than that. safe mode works fine. i was reading on this site on how to disable the system to reboot after error. but couldn't flesh it out. previous to this we installed windows mediacenter version of xp. about three weeks ago with no problems but then it started finding new hardware something for the pci slot and then a buss controller. i installed all of the software drivers for the computer and its worked great till now.

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by rob miners

I cant find a reference to that .DLL file that it is trying to load. It could be Virus Activity.

By default when WinXP encounters a system failure, it reboots without warning. The setting that controls this can be changed by entering Safe Mode:
Control Panel/System/Advanced/Settings (Startup & Recovery)/System Failure/Uncheck-Automatically Restart. When you get the Blue Screen take note of Stop: 0X000000 and post the information it could give us a clue as to where to start looking.

There are also debugging tools available. If you look to the right of the screen when you click on this link you will find instructions.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/installx86.mspx

Symbols

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/symbolpkg.mspx

Virus Removal
Restart the PC in Safe Mode and turn off System Restore insert the USB Stick and run Sophos.bat when it is completed run stng380.exe. When the PC reboots start in Safe Mode again and run Spybot.

Download Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.5.2 and install it. Update it. http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Download Stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/stinger.htm

Download Sophos and the latest IDE Files. Install it and extract the IDE files to the C:\SAV32CLI folder.
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/13251.html

Copy and paste the below two lines into Notepad and save the file to the USB Stick as sophos.bat, it will scan and remove.

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CD SAV32CLI
SAV32CLI -REMOVE -P=C:\REMOVLOG.TXT
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Also download and install CCleaner to tidy up your Registry. Let it run through until there are no errors left.

http://www.ccleaner.com/download

The Sophos SAV32CLI folder can be safely deleted after it is copied to USB.

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by djfrankn

You can try booting safe mode (press F8 after BIOS Post screen) and lo on safe mode. Press click on start\run and type cmd. When the black DOS Window posp up type this: sfc/scannow.
Take into consideration that you need your Windows Installation CD to do this. 99% of chance this will fix your problem.

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