Tomcat – Jenkins won’t start

I'm using:

• Jenkins 1.541.
• Java JDK 7u45 (tried 64 and 32 bit versions).
• XAMPP 1.8.2

I have downloaded the default MSI installation from http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/windows/latest, and I have installed it. Jenkins tries to run the first time, telling me Please wait while Jenkins is getting ready to work…

I wait but then the server, located at http://localhost:8080/ is down. The logs don't tell much:

jenkins.err.log

nov 26, 2013 5:58:20 PM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog info
INFO: jetty-8.y.z-SNAPSHOT
nov 26, 2013 5:58:23 PM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog info
INFO: Extract jar:file:/C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Jenkins/jenkins.war!/ to C:\Windows\Temp\jetty-0.0.0.0-8080-jenkins.war--any-\webapp
nov 26, 2013 5:58:45 PM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog info
INFO: NO JSP Support for , did not find org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet
nov 26, 2013 5:58:46 PM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog info
INFO: Started SelectChannelConnector@0.0.0.0:8080
nov 26, 2013 5:58:46 PM winstone.Logger logInternal
INFO: Winstone Servlet Engine v2.0 running: controlPort=disabled
nov 26, 2013 5:58:46 PM jenkins.InitReactorRunner$1 onAttained
INFO: Started initialization
nov 26, 2013 5:58:46 PM jenkins.InitReactorRunner$1 onAttained
INFO: Listed all plugins
nov 26, 2013 5:58:47 PM jenkins.InitReactorRunner$1 onAttained
INFO: Prepared all plugins
nov 26, 2013 5:58:47 PM jenkins.InitReactorRunner$1 onAttained
INFO: Started all plugins
nov 26, 2013 5:58:47 PM jenkins.InitReactorRunner$1 onAttained
INFO: Augmented all extensions
nov 26, 2013 5:58:47 PM jenkins.InitReactorRunner$1 onAttained
INFO: Loaded all jobs
nov 26, 2013 5:58:52 PM org.jenkinsci.main.modules.sshd.SSHD start
INFO: Started SSHD at port 54677
nov 26, 2013 5:58:52 PM jenkins.InitReactorRunner$1 onAttained
INFO: Completed initialization
nov 26, 2013 5:58:52 PM hudson.TcpSlaveAgentListener <init>
INFO: JNLP slave agent listener started on TCP port 54678
nov 26, 2013 5:58:52 PM hudson.WebAppMain$3 run
INFO: Jenkins is fully up and running

After that, the server never initiates (at localhost:8080), and the Jenkins service is stopped.

I have also tried using XAMPP with Tomcat, trying both 32 and 64 bit Java JDK versions to no avail, since after starting Jenkins, Java crashes. I was trying to look for a crash log but can't find any.

These are the error events from the Event Viewer:

Faulting application name: java.exe, version: 7.0.250.17, time stamp: 0x51c4b3fd
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18247, time stamp: 0x521ea8e7
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x000ce753
Faulting process id: 0x15bc
Faulting application start time: 0x01ceeaee5b2a96ab
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jre\bin\java.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
Report Id: a49749d3-56e1-11e3-b08d-00155d011200

And

Child process [5564 - C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jre\bin\java -Xrs -Xmx256m -Dhudson.lifecycle=hudson.lifecycle.WindowsServiceLifecycle -jar "C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jenkins.war" --httpPort=8080] terminated with 255

Is there any other log I can provide to track the source problem?