psychicpirate
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Alright, here's the deal. I built my own computer w/ XP home ed. last november. It has worked beautifully until last friday. I was installing some software for my dad's scanner. About halfway through installation, it froze, and I ended up restarting. Upon restart, I got a BSOD, something about an interruption of a process that had something to do with memory, and my computer was being shutdown to protect something. It went by kind of fast... So I restarted, and got a different error saying that system32\hal.dll was either missing or corrupted. I eventually reinstalled XP. After backing up my files, I realized that my speakers weren't working, and every time I opened up AIM or Media Player Classic my computer would freeze up for a very long time. I got fed up and repartitioned my HDD. I spent a good 3 afternoons reinstalling stuff, mainly drivers and programs like photoshop. Today I finally got around to installing BF2. I was joining a single player game when the screen froze. After about 5 minutes of "loading server", I restarted, only to be greeted by a completely new error message informing me that windows\system32\config\system was either missing or damaged. I was also told that it was an unrecoverable error. So sadly, I re-repartitioned. After getting windows installed, I installed the drivers for my video card, sound card, and wireless internet. Halfway through the install for my internet, the computer auto-restarted, and came up with the same message about config\system.
Can anyone tell me what's causing this and what I can do about it? I'm beginning to wonder if it's my hard drive. I repartitioned it, wiping everything. The second time it happened, I had only installed drivers that had been on my computer since I first built it. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Can anyone tell me what's causing this and what I can do about it? I'm beginning to wonder if it's my hard drive. I repartitioned it, wiping everything. The second time it happened, I had only installed drivers that had been on my computer since I first built it. Any help is greatly appreciated.