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Hi
Im currently in the process of bringing my PC back from the brink. St
present I am unable to boot because a system32/hal.dll is not present. Before
this I was unable to boot without seeing a blue screen showing a lack of
memory.
I have been having problems for a few weeks now. At first just a little slow
down and the occassional crash, but it has recently escalated to large scale
slow down and fatal errors causing the pc to reboot. From the performances
menu in Task Manager I can see large large CPU usage peaks with the processor
running at 100% consistantly with no programs running. Simil;arly, on startup
the PF usage is settled around 200MB but gradually increases over a matter of
minutes until it is 2 or 3 GB+. This is usually about when the system
declares a fatal error and reboots itself.
The only process that appears to be taking processor power at these points
is svchost, that will usually run between 0-1%. I have been aprehensive to
end this though as I know it to be a core process. I also had similar
problems with lsass.exe. I researched and figured it could be the Welchia
Worm or MSBLAST.D virus but have found no trace with any anti virus software.
I tried the suggested treatments regardless with no success.
A couple of days ago the problems got to the point where no prgrams would
open and the system rebooted every few minutes. I managed to rectify this by
reinstalling windows, but it appears to have been short lived. Now, after a
fatal error the PC has been unable to reboot.
Ironically I was planning on moving all of my work across a network and
reformatting the hard drive this weekend. A boot disk won't work so I have
been booting from CD. Apparently my hard drive is partitioned, which I didnt
know about. I'm given the option of 8MB unpartitioned, Dartition 2
[unknown] 2494MB (2494 MB free) or Cartition 1 [unknown] 114738MB (114737MB
free).
I cannot reinstal windows without formatting one of them, and I'd rathjer
not loose any of my files.
Can anybody suggest a possible cause or solution?
Thanks in advance. Im running a P4 with around 80GB harddrive and plenty of
SDRAM. Specifics on request
Ps. I apologise for not knowing the specifics of some of the error messages.
I would replicate them if I could.
Hi
Im currently in the process of bringing my PC back from the brink. St
present I am unable to boot because a system32/hal.dll is not present. Before
this I was unable to boot without seeing a blue screen showing a lack of
memory.
I have been having problems for a few weeks now. At first just a little slow
down and the occassional crash, but it has recently escalated to large scale
slow down and fatal errors causing the pc to reboot. From the performances
menu in Task Manager I can see large large CPU usage peaks with the processor
running at 100% consistantly with no programs running. Simil;arly, on startup
the PF usage is settled around 200MB but gradually increases over a matter of
minutes until it is 2 or 3 GB+. This is usually about when the system
declares a fatal error and reboots itself.
The only process that appears to be taking processor power at these points
is svchost, that will usually run between 0-1%. I have been aprehensive to
end this though as I know it to be a core process. I also had similar
problems with lsass.exe. I researched and figured it could be the Welchia
Worm or MSBLAST.D virus but have found no trace with any anti virus software.
I tried the suggested treatments regardless with no success.
A couple of days ago the problems got to the point where no prgrams would
open and the system rebooted every few minutes. I managed to rectify this by
reinstalling windows, but it appears to have been short lived. Now, after a
fatal error the PC has been unable to reboot.
Ironically I was planning on moving all of my work across a network and
reformatting the hard drive this weekend. A boot disk won't work so I have
been booting from CD. Apparently my hard drive is partitioned, which I didnt
know about. I'm given the option of 8MB unpartitioned, Dartition 2
[unknown] 2494MB (2494 MB free) or Cartition 1 [unknown] 114738MB (114737MB
free).
I cannot reinstal windows without formatting one of them, and I'd rathjer
not loose any of my files.
Can anybody suggest a possible cause or solution?
Thanks in advance. Im running a P4 with around 80GB harddrive and plenty of
SDRAM. Specifics on request
Ps. I apologise for not knowing the specifics of some of the error messages.
I would replicate them if I could.