Booting Problems

Originally Posted by XtremeDJW

Another related problem is that I almost had it booted up then an error message came up saying "windows is missing hal.dll".

Oh no. That sounds very much like your HDD has gotten corrupted. I had this happen to a while back, HDD managed to sort itself out though. There is a way to restore it though, if you have your XP disc.

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Insert and boot from your Windows XP CD.

At the first R=Repair option, press the R key
Press the number that corresponds to the correct location for the installation of Windows you want to repair.
Typically this will be #1
Type bootcfg /list to show the current entries in the BOOT.INI file
Type bootcfg /rebuild to repair it
Take out the CD ROM and type exit

If that doesn't work, I'm afraid you're going to have to re-install windows.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

So it doesn't actually turn off, but goes into standby mode?
Is the fan for the processor connected to the motherboard? It could just be that the fan has ceased to exist and that you need a new one, have you got another fan that you could try?

How long have you had this set-up?

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