hal.dll error
Posted: 05 Oct 2009, 00:23
i woke up this morning and computer was locked up. i forced a hard boot and
during reboot i got a message about the hal.dll file being bad. would not
proceed from there. i used the recovery mode off the cd to reinstall the file
and nothing. i actually restored an old boot.ini file and got past this. now
its still locking up on boot but i cant access any safe modes due to the usb
mouse and keyboard shut off during boot. i've tried fixboot and fixmbr to no
avail. im running xp home edition sp3. i have a new machine with plenty of
memory and drive space.
during reboot i got a message about the hal.dll file being bad. would not
proceed from there. i used the recovery mode off the cd to reinstall the file
and nothing. i actually restored an old boot.ini file and got past this. now
its still locking up on boot but i cant access any safe modes due to the usb
mouse and keyboard shut off during boot. i've tried fixboot and fixmbr to no
avail. im running xp home edition sp3. i have a new machine with plenty of
memory and drive space.