catlady13
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My problem is in the #4 computer listed in my information. It had been working perfectly until tonight. I had the infamous hal.dll missing or corrupt error. I figured best thing would be to boot to windows XP cd. I have a retail copy that I installed on the machine. It would not boot to the copy of windows.
I tried the copy on my other computer and it booted to it perfectly. I thought perhaps the boot error was incorrect but I cannot boot into the bios to see.
I tried swapping out the dvd/cd drive for another known working one ( it is ide not sata) but that did not seem to help either the bios situation nor the booting into windows cd situation.
At this point I cannot get into the bios. I cannot boot to windows cd. I am hoping someone has other suggestions to try.
Thank you very much,
Linda
I tried the copy on my other computer and it booted to it perfectly. I thought perhaps the boot error was incorrect but I cannot boot into the bios to see.
I tried swapping out the dvd/cd drive for another known working one ( it is ide not sata) but that did not seem to help either the bios situation nor the booting into windows cd situation.
At this point I cannot get into the bios. I cannot boot to windows cd. I am hoping someone has other suggestions to try.
Thank you very much,
Linda