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got a HP xt963 system here that just will not start windows. system turns on makes the usuall noises then goes to a black screen and will set there about 20 min then shows the message: windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt <windows root>\system32\hal.dll...

any good websites to trouble shoot event viewer error codes?

i know i have seen the registry hack here but cannot find it. would someone like to please remind me of this hack to prevent someone from hitting cancel or esc to bypass lonin... TIA

anyone have a site handy that describes what the additional slots are with rdram?...have never built a system using this type of ram the system in question is an emachine with a faulty board...a 1.3 P4 and 128 RDRAM (2x64 chips) it has two slots filled then 2 slots filled with what looks like...

Is anyone having problems connecting to Microsoft KB? i keep getting site unavailable...be like that 2 days now. can get to www.microsoft.com but can not see any KB articles support newsgroups or anything else

Strange one here have a system that is getting the dreaded unable to write to c: error, harddrive failing?... i would think so i ran some harddisk checking software and the drive seems to be fine(microscope2000) so booted with an WinME boot disk and tried to run scandisk (tried running in...

Every one has seen it probally at one time or another: C:\windows\system32\config\system corrupted or missing As we all know by now this is just a registry error that prevents your system from starting and the fix is a far cry from the 98 version of scanreg /restore. After having to go thru...

Ok have a look at this one guys....lol may be a problem and may not be.. running XP PRO i have 1gig of DDR memory install... but in system information it says total physical memory installed is 512 with unused memory as 768....???? why does the system information only show 512 as total memory...

Any one know this board?... here is the problem i am having.. reading thru documentation has found anything on it and of course MSI is down at the moment.. but i cannot set this board to 8x AGP.... in the bios it is set to auto and unaccessible, doing a bench mark in windows it show 2x,4x...

Is there a way with having a phone running thru the modem tthen out to the wall of keeping a log to a file of all numbers dialed out as well as incoming calls? i do have caller id on the phone line but would like to keep a log if possible BTW System is running XP Pro and modem is a Zoom V92...

Is there a way with having a phone running thru the modem tthen out to the wall of keeping a log to a file of all numbers dialed out as well as incoming calls? i do have caller id on the phone line but would like to keep a log if possible BTW System is running XP Pro and modem is a Zoom V92 D/F/V

OK guys here is a good one i think, have a client with a system that restarts are no problems shutdown then restart no problem as long as the machine is warm... no here is the kicker when the shut the system down over the weekend then come back in monday morning ..hit the power button lights...

Have a client that is running 4 computers 2 xp pro, 1 xp home and 1 win98se. running a simple client/server. Now here is the deal. previously the system was on dial-up thr one of the pro computers and everyone shared that internet connection, he is now switching to wireless which has installed...

Does anyone have any idea of what can cause memory to go bad. ex: I installed a 128 sdram pc133 8 months ago along side the 128 that was already there. the original chip is still find but have errors on the new... i guess my question is i understand faulty memory but usually they dont last 8...

This is just a general question is anyone else haveing any trouble in these forums? I am on a T1 braodban connection and can browse the web with ease but am getting a lot of timeouts and page not display message on this site, just me or is anyone else having this problem

Is there anyway to do a regedit from recovery console? have a system here that is caught in that stop error reboot mode that flashes to quick to see. was wondering if it is possible to turn off auto restart to see if i can see what the error is, or are there any other suggestions on how to get...

I have seen this mentioned many times about a power saving feature in XP for nic cards, well i have yet to find it i am using a netgear FA310TX have went to device manager and properties of my nic card and there is nothing about power savings there, is this something that is card specific or am...

afraid i know the answer to this already, but here goes anyway, have a DFI AM33-el motherboard, went and got the latest bios flash and start the system with the alt+F2 to enter award flash. program started ok and about midway thru the flash process the screen went black and just set there. left...

just created my first windows xp sp1 slipstream cd that actually works, my question is , is it possible to created an unattended load and burn this also to the same cd? done some reading but it always seems to say it points to the floppy drive. also by looking at the unattend.bat file that was...

I know i have seen this before but cannot locate it now, got a system that every time i would double click the C: drive MS backup would launch but not open the contents of the drive, could right click then click open and it would open up. so i removed windows back-up and thought that would reset...