re: Problems Starting Up Windows Monday, December 25, 2006 at 11:13 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Blue (115 messages posted) Trap" is an assembly instruction. It probably means that sometime when your OS was starting up, something went terribly terribly wrong (ie, something that Windows wasn't designed to handle) and now the OS doesn't know what to do. So it does the only thing it can do...it fails and displays a lot of vital things like CPU registers, CPU flags, etc... This is the garbage that you're seeing below the Trap Exception. As for fixing this, I'm afraid there's not a lot that can be done. The debugging symbols might be of use to someone who's working on the Windows OS itself and trying to debug a problem like this, but from an end user point of view there's not a whole lot you can do other than reinstall. If you have data you need to back up from the windows partition, you can boot your computer with a Linux LiveCD and access your files that way (email them to yourself? Upload them to some sort of other storage facility?). http://support.microsoft.com/kb/150314 Written in response to: Problems Starting Up Windows (D. Jones: Monday, December 25, 2006 at 10:40 am) Responses to this message: re: Problems Starting Up Windows (D. Jones: Thursday, December 28, 2006 at 9:27 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Problems Starting Up Windows (D. Jones: Mon, Dec 25, 2006, 10:40 am) re: Problems Starting Up Windows (Blue: Mon, Dec 25, 2006, 11:13 am) re: Problems Starting Up Windows (D. Jones: Thu, Dec 28, 2006, 9:27 pm) re: Problems Starting Up Windows (Rich Kurtz: Mon, Dec 25, 2006, 11:19 am) re: Problems Starting Up Windows (D. Jones: Thu, Dec 28, 2006, 9:32 pm) re: Problems Starting Up Windows (Rich Kurtz: Fri, Dec 29, 2006, 5:30 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum