Okay, I've been having a problem now for about 4 or 5 months now and it's
been driving me insane!

When I boot my computer after a night over shut off, it ALWAYS takes at least 4 or 5 tries to get the computer to work properly. EX: It won't reach the regular desktop until it has gone through that terrifying cycle of random restarts. BUT, for some reason after its been through those cycles and ONCE its up and running for a while, I can reboot how ever many times I want after that, and it will start up no problem? WTF? it's strange

I know it's not a virus or spyware or any kind of malware.
I just reinstalled XP to see if this problem would go away. IT DIDN't!

NOW, lol
Today I received an error report from microsoft. It said something about an error with my Random Access Memory. or that hardware was to blame for this?

Well, is it the RAM itself or another device?
Also I was told by another error that a possible device driver was causing this delay for repeating startups

I've spoken to a Microsoft tech and they could not figure it out for some reason?

You folks have never let me down. I'm sure you can figure it out

I'm running WindowsXP SP2
and only 1 256MB of SDRAM PC133

I'm also going to be ordering another stick: 512MB of SDRAM PC133

If you need more info on my computer just ask me

Also, If you could recommend a manufacturer that produces quality RAM modules? or does that matter???

Hi,have you tried a BIOS update?

Downloading and installing a bad driver or a driver not installing properly can cause shut downs and restarts.


Crucial RAM or Kingston?

If you love your PC always buy quality.

no actually I havent had a bios update. the bios is from 2001 or 2? i believe how do i do that?

also, would the ram be causing this as well?
and how can i diagnose the device driver that might be doin this?

Hi ok you need to go to manufacturers website and find BIOS update for your make n model of PC.Or try MB manufacturers web site?

Turn off PC take out all RAM then put one stick in and reboot.

Turn off PC take out that stick of RAM put another one in and reboot.

You can test that way.

However I think a BIOS update may just solve your problems.

Event viewer under disk management?

Or I think click start then scroll to run type in box msconfig.

Well I only have one stick of ram at the moment so I cant do that test

but i looked in the event viewer and saw the error multiple times
it says:

The following boot-start or system start driver(s) failed to load:SASKUTIL

Here's more info on that
Source:Service Control Manager
Event ID:7026

Could this be the problem?

I think you need a BIOS update?
Update all your drivers.

EventLogScan.com - Scan your security event log online!

Is there a fuller code there?

SASKUTIL.sys Windows process - What is it?

SASKUTIL.SYS driver information from