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Need Help!! System Problem

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axispr

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Here is my problem....

This morning I woke up to my system being frozen in WindowsXP so I restarted. Whem the system boots, hust before going into WinXP, I get a message saying " ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupted, reinstall the file". I try to reinstall Windows XP with no luck, the instalation stops at the beginning when it starts to load everything and says " could not load setupdd" I tested my WinXP cd and I know it works. I took the drive out, placed it on my secondary system and erased the c:\ partition and formated. After all that I tried to reinstall again with no luck.

Right now I'm really pissed off and about to throw it out the window, I'm kinda out of ideas of what to do. Can anybody help me out?

Thanks!!!
 
Why was the first solution absolutely erase everything, delete partitions and try and reinstall?

Did you try safe mode? Repair console? Boot disks and virus scans? Registry repair? Memory tests? Scandisk? CHKDSK?

What about dropping the OC? Turn it off for a while, let it sit, try again? Checking the HD in another computer?
 
@vinnie, actually I tried all those that were possible and yes I tried taking the cpu back to default speed but still had the problem.

Last nite I ran memtest86 and only a couple of test gave error all others were ok, does that mean that there is something wrong with my memory? Any other suggestion?

Thanks for the help!
 
Originally posted by axispr
@vinnie, actually I tried all those that were possible and yes I tried taking the cpu back to default speed but still had the problem.

Last nite I ran memtest86 and only a couple of test gave error all others were ok, does that mean that there is something wrong with my memory? Any other suggestion?

Thanks for the help!
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well yeah - that's exactly what it means... try another stick and proceed to installing XP...
 
Yep.

Failure with Memtest86 = get new RAM.

Buy some new RAM, and next time, remember to test your memory before you format your HD. :)
 
Damn it... Gonna have to buy new ram, crap.

Anyway, thanks to all that tried to help :)
 
Originally posted by angrybusdriver
RAM with errors on it wouldn't be covered under warranty?
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I would think so. They give out a lifetime warrenty with it. I would think that it would cover something like that, I mean after all... what else can happen to ram unless its physically damaged?
 
Does Crucial have a lifetime warranty? If that is the case I'm gonna contact them to see if I can get it replaced. Its no fun running only with 256MB instead of 512MB :(
 
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