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*From:* Don Crowder <donguitar@xxxxxxxxx>
*To:* hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Sent:* Thursday, February 9, 2012 3:19 PM
*Subject:* [hllug] Off topic (evil empire)
Richard Salts asked me take a look at his dysfunctional Windows
machine. I found that, when it was turned on (when the button was
pushed) it acted like it was going to boot up (lights blinked, drives
whirred) but it shut down after a few seconds (just switched off). I
tried another power supply and that corrected the initial problem but
it still won't boot up.
The machine is an Athlon 64, 3000+, 1.8 GHz, single core (I think).
It's got two hard drives in it. During the boot process, at one
point, I get:
Raid
none define
No Raid
and, immediately thereafter, I get:
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<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll
Please re-install a copy of the above file.
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There's no COA on it so I don't know what OS it's using and, even if I
did, the newest Windows CDs I have are 32 bit XP Home and Pro.
In my admittedly limited experience, when I've seen a similar error
message, the problem wasn't actually a missing file. I'm wondering if
I can boot from a Linux live CD (or a System Rescue CD) and run fsck
but the only live CDs I have on hand are 32 bit.
So, I'm sort of stumped at this point. Suggestions? Anyone?
-- Don Crowder
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