IBM Netvista continuous Boot up or Freezing on Win Xp startup screen

[wolf0168]

Hi,
My first time here, I really hope someone can help me.
Have an IBM Netvista type 2257 Model 82u. Intel Celeron 1.0Ghz,128 mgb's ram, 40 gig. harddrive Running windows xp.

The original problem I had was a message that would come up after the Windows Xp start up screen, It read windows root\system 32\ntoskrnl. exe missing or corrupt please restart computer.

I would restart and It would do the same thing over and over,
I tried a safe mode startup and that didn't work either.
I did a system recovery with my service partition and I didn't get
the error message again. But, Everytime the computer was started it would reach the Win Xp startup screen and then Reboot or freeze up. I think My service Partition might have become corrupt somehow. And I don't have a system recovery cd.
It came preloaded from the factory.

I took the computer to a freind of mine and we installed a different hard drive, loaded an OEM copy of Windows 98se.
It did it's setup thing with no problems, but when the system rebooted after setup we could only run in safemode.

I didn't realize it at the time but My friend had inadvertantly formatted the hard drive to do the installation, and in doing so he destroyed my service partition.

I don't know what to do ...It seems like it might have a problem on the motherboard....I ran some system diagnostics on it that I got From IBM and everything passed. Help what can I do?

Any Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanx

Wolf0168