W2k stop error C000026c

[shawnc]

I'm getting a stop error (blue screen) during
Windows start-up with the following error:

Stop: C000026c

\systemRoot\system32\drivers device driver could not be loaded
Error status was 0xc0000020
If this is the first time you encounter....


I tried to boot into the safe mode (which was
successful) and disabled as many as unnecessary device drivers as I could but still gets the same error when I tried to boot into normal mode. I also tried using emergency repair disk but also without success.

This happened after I tried (unsuccessfully)
installing a USB device driver for a digital
voice recorder, which failed because some other required driver had problem (I think it was something like "multimedia audio controller", listed under "other" in device manager but I could not locate a driver for that anywhere).

Any hint is greatly appreciated.



Thanks.

shawn

 

[Blade00]

Well it think it the driver that you updated recently causing the problem..Are your sure those driver are for Win2000 Pro not for XP..
Go to SAFE MODE and Uninstall those driver. Reboot the computer, i believe windows will intall those drive automatically,

if not than guide the setup toward the driver you have for Win2000 and after the setup finish reboot the system..if the problem is the same after that..then go to manifacture website to see if they put any new driver for win2000.


mohamed hassan
mcsa

 

[jaeddy]

Actually, if you ahven't had a successful normal start you could try Last Known Good by pressing F8 as Win2K starts up. Just a thought.

 

[Guest_imported]

We were getting the error on a PC and it turned out to be that we had a bad memory stick. We were getting this error and we could figure out what it was and we hadn't installed any new hardware since we installed the pc. So we were going to reghost the pc and we started it up in dos and that is when get got the memory error. We put in a different memory stick and it seemed to work.