Hey guys, here's my problem:
We had a fuse blow and when I went to flip the breaker switch, the power to my HP Pavillion 753n was cut off because the switches weren't properly labeled, thus frying the MoBo. I purchased a new one, got it installed a-okay and the compy came back on, good as new, none the worse for wear. UNTIL, I go to install the drivers and such for the new MoBo. I do this and reboot. Upon rebooting, it goes through the normal stuff, but when it tried to start the OS (XP Pro), "C:\Windows\system32\config\system" is "corrupt or missing". I use my boot disks to go into repair mode, rename "system" to "system.bad" and then copy "system" from "C:\Windows\repair" to replace the (apparently) bad system file. This done, I reboot again and it gets to Windows, but Windows Explorer will not stay running and I get a window saying Windows cannot verify licensing and will have to shut down. Okay, I'm gonna lose all my files, but I use the floppies again, go into Windows install, completely wipe the HD by deleting the partition and creating a new one, formatting to NTFS and then reinstalling Windows XP Pro on it. The first time the whole setup goes by smoothly, but getting to the desktop (finally), again Windows Explorer won't stay running and so I boot, completely wipe and reinstall. This time it makes it just past getting the files installed, the blue Windows install screen comes up, freezes, the computer boots itself again and goes straight to "system is missing or corrupt" again and this is the "system" I just installed fresh from the disk.
This is probably the 3rd or fourth time I've had to completely wipe this compy within the last several months because of various problems, SP2 being one of them. Always wiping and starting over solved whatever problem was going on (using this same disk), what's going on, guys? Do I need to try a different Windows disk? Do I need to get another HD? If at all possible, I'd like to figure this out within the next 5 days or so, so that I can return the new MoBo if it comes down to getting a new PC altogether (though I really cannot afford it). Any help would be appreciated, this has me stumped and frustrated, to say the least. Would hate to put any more money into this since I just payed $90 for the M-board and even that was steep for me, but if I knew for sure it would solve this problem, I'd give it a go. Thanks fellas.
We had a fuse blow and when I went to flip the breaker switch, the power to my HP Pavillion 753n was cut off because the switches weren't properly labeled, thus frying the MoBo. I purchased a new one, got it installed a-okay and the compy came back on, good as new, none the worse for wear. UNTIL, I go to install the drivers and such for the new MoBo. I do this and reboot. Upon rebooting, it goes through the normal stuff, but when it tried to start the OS (XP Pro), "C:\Windows\system32\config\system" is "corrupt or missing". I use my boot disks to go into repair mode, rename "system" to "system.bad" and then copy "system" from "C:\Windows\repair" to replace the (apparently) bad system file. This done, I reboot again and it gets to Windows, but Windows Explorer will not stay running and I get a window saying Windows cannot verify licensing and will have to shut down. Okay, I'm gonna lose all my files, but I use the floppies again, go into Windows install, completely wipe the HD by deleting the partition and creating a new one, formatting to NTFS and then reinstalling Windows XP Pro on it. The first time the whole setup goes by smoothly, but getting to the desktop (finally), again Windows Explorer won't stay running and so I boot, completely wipe and reinstall. This time it makes it just past getting the files installed, the blue Windows install screen comes up, freezes, the computer boots itself again and goes straight to "system is missing or corrupt" again and this is the "system" I just installed fresh from the disk.
This is probably the 3rd or fourth time I've had to completely wipe this compy within the last several months because of various problems, SP2 being one of them. Always wiping and starting over solved whatever problem was going on (using this same disk), what's going on, guys? Do I need to try a different Windows disk? Do I need to get another HD? If at all possible, I'd like to figure this out within the next 5 days or so, so that I can return the new MoBo if it comes down to getting a new PC altogether (though I really cannot afford it). Any help would be appreciated, this has me stumped and frustrated, to say the least. Would hate to put any more money into this since I just payed $90 for the M-board and even that was steep for me, but if I knew for sure it would solve this problem, I'd give it a go. Thanks fellas.
