Can't logon to windows (system has been shut down)

[fishyfingers]

I'm not sure about hard ware problems but because my PC was slow and kept crashing, I tried to do do a clean installation of windows XP. Half way through I got this message

Stop: (000021a) (fatal system error)
The Windows Logon Process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of Oxc000354 (OXOOOOOOOO OXOOOOOOOO)
The system has been shut down

I'm now on a friends PC, is my PC dead?

Please help, Thanks

 

[Osiris]

whats the specs? did you alter anything?

 

[fishyfingers]

I was doing the same thing I did on two other computers and windows installed fine. I clean installed windows xp on my friends PC just to make sure of the discs, he was going to give it away, but now it's running like new. So I pretty much knew what I was doing and I knew the discs were working fine.

On my PC...

First I did a quick Fat32 format and it worked, I installed all the basic programs (norton, microsoft office, anti spyware programs, mozilla etc.
worked fine for a day, then it crashed. I tried to recover it with the installation disc, but got that message. So I tried all the other formats, complete and quick, FAT and NTFS. I was never able to get up to the installation page after the initial reboot (approx 39mins to go page). I kept getting that message.

I havenÂ’t altered anything physically.

Devices
Primary Master 20gb
Parallel Port=LPT1,378,IRQ7

System
CPU=Celeron
CPU Speed=1700MHz

Memory
Base=640KB
Extended=223MB
Shadow=176KB
Reserved=208KB
Video=32MB
Total RAM=256MB
Cache (Ext)=128KB

I've done google on my 'fatal system error' message and the microsoft website said something about the recover console, which I can get to but I don't have a clue how to use it.

Thanks