What happened?

[scorpio]

A few days ago, my dad's computer wouldn't boot up saying a file in the system32 folder or something is corrupted or missing. So we switched it with a new hard drive to reinstall the OS(Windows XP), but it won't even start booting up, it just stays a blank screen after the system information shows up. What could this be?

 

[TheMajor]

maybe you put the power molex backwards

 

[derrmc]

maybe you put the power molex backwards

Does your hardrive light stay on.

maybe there isn't a jumper on the master

 

[scorpio]

Nope, neither of them.

 

[TheMajor]

you want to install XP right? just set your BIOS to boot from CD and insert the XP disc

 

[derrmc]

Nope, neither of them.

What does your bios say

 

[scorpio]

BIO is still the same, I'm not sure, but when I connected the old hard drive it worked, I'm not sure what the heck's going on... But I was wondering what happened for the file to go missing or corrupted.

 

[scorpio]

There seems to have been a mistake with ACPI in BIOS, can someone tell me what the standard setting for it is?

 

[killians45]

just disable it, more hassle then what its worth if you ask me. what WAS the exact corrupt/missing dll file?

 

[scorpio]

I know that ACPI has to do with controlling the power, but what exactly does it do? For the missing file, I believe it had something to do with registry, some like the ROC file or something, I forgot to write it down.