Thanks for your reaction. I use SP2 and tried what you described. However, I
kept pressing the R-button what resulted in a restart that was stopped
accompanied by beeps. As soon as I stopped pressing the R button the restart
was continued until the meaasge that the hal.dll file was missing. Any idea?
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Sjors, Gouda, The Netherlands
"svchost.exe" wrote:
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> This is a problem which usually happens across Europe more then it does
> in other parts of the world (dont ask why lol), hal.dll is a file which
> is associated with the hardware abstraction layer, this controls and
> communicates with Windows to initiate its starting phase, however
> sometimes a mis-communication between hal.dll and Win XP occurs ideally
> in Windows SP1, This is usually because the file BOOT.INI cant locate it
> anymore, to solve it you have:
> Restart your computer and insert the Windows CD-ROM
> Press the R button until a repair prompt is given
> This should then give you options on which SP your using, choose the
> correct one of course
> Now type bootcfg / list (this will display the contents of BOOT.INI)
> To repair this type bootcfg / rebuild
> once done type exit.
>
> This should remake your whole BOOT.INI database and hal.exe should now
> work fine, if the problem persists then the Recovery process will be
> needed.
>
>
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