"MAP" wrote:

Birdman wrote:
Installed SP2 on XP Home Edition and get error message stop:
0x0000007E (0x0000005, 0x00000000, 0xF7A770C0, 0xF7A76DBC). Have been
searching articles for days. Can probably fix any other problem in
the world now, but not this one.

Looks like it could be caused by several reasons.
I would geuss that you have one or more drivers that are not compatiable
with SP2 or perhaps a parasite.
http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php

Did you prepare your system before you installed SP2?
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spackins.htm


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Mike Pawlak


Thank you for the link to www3.telus.net/dandemar/spackins.htm. That site did not have all the info I needed but it got me started in the right direction. I ended up at Microsoft article #Q316434, "How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP" which has a section on "How to remove unsigned drivers" using "sigverif" and moved all unsigned drivers to a new folder. Then I performed a normal boot and SUCCESS AT LAST! From there I put those drivers back in 4 at a time until the problem resurfaced. For me, the driver at fault was IPVNMON.SYS. I never found it tied to any program, but there it was! Also, I would like to thank Ron Martell whose aid was invaluable.