Blue Screen 0x0000006B - PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

original title: BSOD 0x6B on ASUS 1000HE

Running Windows 7 Pro x86 on an Asus EeePC 1000HE.  I haven't had a blue screen in three months.  Shocking.  Now, when booting (normally, safe mode, whatever) after the loading screen, before the user password screen, a blue screen appears.

PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

STOP: 0x0000006B (0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I have checked the numbers many times and have pictures of the screen to verify (taken from my phone).  I tried the work-around as described in KB981833 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981833). I used an Ubuntu 8 LiveCD to navigate to /Windows/System32/CodeIntegrity/ and deleted the Bootcat.cache file.  After several reboots, the blue screen still persists with the same error codes and the Bootcat.cache files has not reappeared.  I can confirm that it is not a hardware problem because the other OSs (Mac OSX 10.6.1. Eeebuntu) still boot and operate normally off the same hard drive.  This is just a Windows problem.  (Suprise, suprise)

Also, the startup repair on the Windows 7 install disc found nothing and did nothing.

No RAID on this machine.  It is a 10-inch netbook with a single 160Gb hard drive.  Linux booted off of an optical usb drive, but Ubuntu and also OSX Snow Leopard are still able to boot off of the internal hard drive, the same one that Windows 7 is on.  OSX has the first 80GB, Ubuntu has an ~8Gb slice in the middle, and Windows 7 has the remaining ~71Gb.  I will definitely copy the dump files and use BlueScreenView on them...

1.  OKAY... I tried to get the dump files, but C:/Windows/Minidump does not seem to exist on my system (I also made sure to look in case it was a hidden or system folder.)  Also, I could not find any .dmp files anywhere else in my system (I looked in root, /Windows, and /System32).  I found the extended boot menu and disable "reboot on system failure", so I was able to see the message that said it finished the memory dump.  I also booted in "Debug Mode" and "enabled boot logging" which both resulted in the same BSOD, but I cannot find ntbtlog.txt from those, either.

2.  I tried to run "sfc /scannow" from the install disk, and it says something like "unable to check system because there are other system repairs pending, please reboot your computer and try again."  Well, I have no idea what repairs it's talking about, and I can't reboot like it wants me to because of this BSOD.  Is there any way to cancel the pending repairs or force sfc to run anyways?

EDIT 2.  I found /Windows/Winsxs/reboot.xml, and it contained the following.  Could this be stopping sfc?

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

<PendingTransaction Version="3.1">

    <POQ>

        <DeleteKeyValue path="\Registry\Machine\COMPONENTS" name="PendingRequired"/>

    </POQ>

</PendingTransaction>

3.  "The 1st parameter is The NT status code that caused the failure - which means there was no applicable code."  So, does this mean that there were no software errors to report?

4.  At the end of Startup Repair, when it found no errors to fix, it gave me this info:

Problem signature:

  Problem Event Name:    StartupRepairOffline

  Problem Signature 01:    6.1.7600.16385

  Problem Signature 02:    6.1.7600.16385

  Problem Signature 03:    unknown

  Problem Signature 04:    21200990

  Problem Signature 05:    ExternalMedia

  Problem Signature 06:    6

  Problem Signature 07:    0x6b

  OS Version:    6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1

  Locale ID:    1033

btw, +1 for including notepad in the repair command prompt :)

Hi,

Sounds like you have a hardware issue and need a real computer shop or the System maker's Support.

Rob Brown - MS MVP - Windows Desktop Experience : Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right.

No troubles at all.

You will get the best help in the Windows 7 Forums.

Keep that link to the Windows 7 Forums, in case you have other problems at any time in the future.

Cheers.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft Partner

For any Windows 7 questions:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windows7

Above link is to Windows 7 Forums.

There is a list of the various Windows 7 Forums at above link to help you.

You will get the assistance that you need there.

You are in Vista Forums.

Cheers.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft Partner