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: --- <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll Please re-install a copy of the above file. ---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 http://www.don-guitar.com http://about.me/doncrowder http://twitter.com/eldergeek http://don-guitar.blogspot.com/ //www.freelists.org/list/donspatch https://plus.google.com/106370117092434105137 http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Crowder/1321324044 A proud user of Kubuntu 11.04 (Linux) ______________________________________________________________________________ Highland Lakes Linux User Group (HLLUG): http://www.hllug.org HLLUG mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/hllug
