I'm running windows XP media edition on a dell dimension and have mcafee anti-virus.
My computer randomly crashed today, during normal use, coming up with the blue screen that said windows had encountered an error and needed to shut down, along with a list of error codes that I failed to write down (kicking myself now).
I rebooted the computer and it ran checkdisk, which said the drive was "dirty"?, it completed the scan and then booted windows. It came up with the log-in screen, while I normally have windows auto log-in. It comes up only with my user name and the space to write my password. When I do so, it comes up with this error
"The system cannot log you on now because the domain <my domain name> is not available". It says this regardless of what password I type in, or if I type no password at all.
This same problem occurs when running safe mode. However during safe mode it also gives me an "administrator" option in the log-in screen, but it gives me the same error message when I type in a password or not.
I have not uninstalled/installed anything recently other than downloading a windows update that morning (a good 10 hours or so before the crash).
Any help/ideas would be very much appreciated, thank you
