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Name: JOE
Date: July 22, 2001 at 11:26:41 Pacific
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I have been having problems getting my Win2k to run. I was having problems with my cd Roms and the CD booing, but I though I got past all that. Everything was working fine for a week, then.....I started my computer and it said "WINNT\SYSTEM32\ntoskernl.exe
; ''''''''''''''\hal.dll
;'''''''''''''''\BOOTVID.dll
;'''''''''''''''\config\system
;'''''''''''''''\config\system.alt
Windows 2000 can not Start because of Corrupt or Missing File
WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

I did not install any new software that could have caused this, and My machine was shutdown and restarted many times successfully before this occured.
What am I to DO ??
could it be a bad motherboard, or hardware ??
anyone want to buy broken computer parts..j/k



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Name: Scott
Date: July 22, 2001 at 15:36:51 Pacific
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Have you tried going back to a last known good configuration. just before win 2000 trys to boot you can hit f8 then try to go back. goodluck


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Response Number 2
Name: J
Date: July 22, 2001 at 18:40:54 Pacific
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YES, I am not an Idiot......

no offense


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Response Number 3
Name: Skip
Date: July 23, 2001 at 14:36:57 Pacific
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I suggest you run a compatibility report to check if summit on ur mboard is messing up the hardware abstration layer (HAL)
To do this either run

winnt32/checkupgradeonly from the 2k cd

or

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/compat/RAread.asp

i suggest you dload the file in question as it easier to run than the former!

Tally ho!



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Response Number 4
Name: J
Date: July 23, 2001 at 18:37:18 Pacific
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Bulls---.....the file does not exist

and the URL is BUNK too.


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Response Number 5
Name: Jude
Date: July 23, 2001 at 23:37:54 Pacific
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Yes they do! THe URL might have changed but thoses files are HCL files that check your machine for compatibility!


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Response Number 6
Name: J
Date: July 24, 2001 at 10:03:39 Pacific
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Where are they Then ?????

The Microsoft Search revealed no matches to anything close to that either....So I don't know what your talking about..


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Response Number 7
Name: Blan8370
Date: July 24, 2001 at 14:25:55 Pacific
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/upgrade/compat/RAread.asp

there it is

Greetz...


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