HELP !! I'm going out of my mind.

When I turned on my computer today, I got a blue screen with a message saying Microsoft registry checker. Updated recent backed up file. Restoring system files, press enter to restart.

And the problem continues, I hit restart, and I went through this whole cycle no less than 23 or 24 times. (not kidding either) It's quite frustrating.

It also happened yesterday, but it let me in after about 6 restarts.
Even 1 restart is 1 too many in my eyes.

What has happened ? or better yet, what can I do ?
Can I somehow get the registry checked for problems ? I've used Regclean, but it hasn't done anything for me.

I really don't have the patience in me to reformat and install everything on my system again.

Please help
Thanks

Check your memory. A bad or failing memory module can cause this to happen.

yanagapa, your HD may be going south. If you can get into windows or dos, do a thorough scandisk and see what the surface scan turns up...

Read this from MS.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q186909

Ok, I have 2x 256MB 133 sdram chips. I took out the module in the second bay, and I got a blue screen that said this :

Invalid VxD dynamic link call from VWIN32(01) + 00000714 to device "0009", service 1.
Windows configuration invalid. Run windows setup to correct this problem.

I turned the power off instead of hitting enter, and then took out the chip in the first bay and replaced it with the one I took out.
It let me in fine, so does that mean that that chip was causing my troubles ?

Is there anyway to see for sure, run some sort of diagnostics test or anything ?

Sure. Try Doc Memory Diagnostic software. You can download it here

I had a similar error the other dat trying to upgrade memory on a workstation, win98. One of the other techs got a good deal on 512MB 133 sdram. He then called me saying he was having problems installing it. Turns out the memory was too much for the board and processor to handle (K6-2, 500Mhz), and it gave him a very similar error message to the one you stated:

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Invalid VxD dynamic link call from VWIN32(01) + 00000714 to device "0009", service 1.

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I don't remember it exactly, but it looks very familiar.
Basically I'm trying to say you very well could have a memory issue, especially if exchanging it allowed you to boot properly.

You could switch positions of the two ram sticks, and if you still have a problem, take out the 'bad' stick.
However, first thing I would do would be to get everything' back up to snuff' using only the stick of ram that seems to be working.
Then backup the Registry before trying that second stick, like I suggested. :)