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got recovery console to load chkdsk /r seems to have taken care of it...thx again for adive & help!!

got it to load recovery console...checking & repairing disk now...

xp cd...also ran ram diagnostics: no errors there. ms h&s suggests if "Ntkrnlmp.exe Could Not Be Loaded. The Error Code Is 7" is not ram its a BIOS prob....

Hope you're still there...I took a pick of the screen and it refers to the error as unmountable_boot_volume recovery console fails unable to load file \i386\ntkrnlmp.exe the error code is 7

appreciate the advice, will get too it...

I keep being unable to get my machine (athlon 2500, xp Pro 512 mb ram), to load windows, wont load last known good config, or any safe modes. Shows XP loading screen then jumps past a blue screen too quick to read it back to the black preload screen which asks for normal load, LKGC or safe...

playing from hard drive...

great, thanks, lots to think about there....now I just need time to do the thinking....will report progress.

Athlon 2600+, 1GB of Ram, Asus MOBO A7V400-MX, Can't remember ram type, 333 mhz speed tho...XP Pro SP1, 160 & 200 GB HDs both 60-70% full... linney, all video files are freezing the OS, not just .avi files...media players will play audio files fine - plus all movies played fine until 3 days ago...

System idle processes is running > 90% other ideas? Thx.

For no reason I can ascertain, my CPU runs up to 100% for the media player when I try to play a movie file. I reinstalled WMP but it happens with QT player as well, I also reinstalled the video card drivers (GeForce 6600)but still can't play movie files. Was fine 3 days ago. Not sure how to...

I've got BEDPro 4.5 running on a Win2kPro network and experience significant backup job time fluctuations. eg one day the job takes 8 min & for the next 4 days 15 min. When running the backup I run no other programs on the backup software resident machine or the network. The amount of data...

I just loaded XP Pro onto a new system with an Athlon 2500 chip & compatible mbd, GeForce 5200 Vcard, 512 mhz of 400 mhz ddr ram and windows will only load into safe mode. In fact, since the first load, device manager is blank. Ideas?

I had intermittent stop msgs like that and it was a capacitor on the motherboard. we figured it was hardware because I got a couple freezes booting before the windows screen appeared. Luckly warranty covered it (tho it was a defect which they had declined to notify me about - even when I...

I have a new WinXPPro system with a NTFS formatted hard drive. I'd like to add a 40GB HD which is formatted FAT32. Will I encounter problems? If they can be overcome, how? Thanks a lot.