System keeps logging off... Help!

[Connoisseur]

Hey guys, I have windows xp pro sp2. My desktop's in my link. Everything's default. Everything was running fine. One day, after a normal restart, I tried logging on. Every time I logon, it logs me off to the login screen. Basically:
1) Type in password
2) Briefly shows desktop background
3) Logs off and kicks me back to the password screen

I didn't change my password and it doesn't give me ANY error messages. I tried running fixboot via the xp disk but that didn't work. Logging into safe mode gives me the same problem. Any ideas?

 

[Connoisseur]

Help?

 

[Connoisseur]

night bump

 

[ciproxr]

thats really weird, if you cant go into safe mode i dont think theres much u can do but restore....unless someone else has a trick up his sleeve that i dont know about.

 

[homercles337]

If something like this happened to me i would format.

 

[Connoisseur]

doh Man I hate reformatting. Been doing it waaay too much. Installing all them lame drivers. ::sigh:: guess i'll have to bite the bullet.

 

[AMCRambler]

It sounds like your windows profile is corrupted. Do you have another account or and administrator account you can try signing in as? If one of those lets you in you can move your profile to a backup directory, delete it and let windows create a new one when you sign in as thatuser again. If you don't have another account you can sign on as, if your hard disk is formatted Fat32 you can do the above from a dos prompt with a windows 98 boot disk. If it's NTFS, I believe there are boot disks available for download that will let you copy files around, but I'm not familiar with how those work.