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12-21-2005, 10:35 AM
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Problems loading
Hello. I just built a new PC, I reused 2 hard drives but the rest is new. As I was moving along I went to start and I got an error saying the hal.dll was missing, ok no prob, inserted XP cd and hit the R button to repair and it did its thing. on restart the info screen loads up and i only have the option of F4 go to setup. It takes me to BIOS and I go to exit and it restarts an same thing. It will not get past BIOS. I have my XP cd in the CD-ROM and the CD-Rom is nu,ber one on the priority list. I have tried everything I can think of but I cannot get past the set up BIOS, even though I was able to before. I am also unsure what to do, I was under the impression since the HDD was already formatted and came from a working PC that it would just load itself up. I thought about going back in and running recovery again formatting but as stated before I cant get past the BIOS. Any help or suggestions will be greatly apprcieated. Thank you
SYSTEM MB Intel desktop D865PERL P4 2.93 chip 512 Gb Ram 2 HDD (not sure brand its for my brother and they are his but they were working fine in old pc) regular CD_ROM No floppy 350watt PSU ATI 9800 Video card |
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12-21-2005, 10:46 AM
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Shiro Usagi
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Intel motherboards have a jumper that forces the system to enter the BIOS setup screen when you boot up. Did you move this jumper so that the system can boot normally?
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12-21-2005, 11:07 AM
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No I dont belive that I did. Where would this be located ,for I never came across NEthing of that nature.
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12-21-2005, 11:47 AM
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Shiro Usagi
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Look in the motherboard manual.
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12-21-2005, 12:42 PM
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Missing hal.dll
I had this problem (missing or corrupted hal.dll) a few weeks ago, Googled the problem and tried many of the suggested fixes to no avail.
Had to reformat and reinstall. This was a new build only about a month old. Since it was so soon after my initial install, I had to actually call MS to re-activate XP. I hope you have better results than I did. Bruce |
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12-21-2005, 11:05 PM
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Reading through the document it doesnt mention anything about the jumper, but i would imagine its ok as before it would go past the BIOS and attempt to load. Its just weird that I was able to attempt a recovery before and now i cant get past BIOS. I even looked at the MB and didnt find any jumper. im so confused, but with PC's that isnt hard to do LOL. any more insight?
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12-22-2005, 09:49 AM
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Ok now this is really getting to me. After letting PC be off all night I came back and turned it on and cool it read the CD, went and tried to use recovery again (which I dont understand why it owuldnt just load windows) and after I hit r and selected the 1 for c it restarted and went back to setup screen and again its stays there and I hit F4 to go to BIOS. This ireally frustrating, i would assume that since the HDD are already good to go it should just boot from them, but its nt, so i am stuck with reformatiing?
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